Long overdue

All right, I admit it, I've been a terrible blogger. I deeply apologize. My one excuse is that lately now I find that it takes careful effort and planning to even get in a shower!

Since my annoucement is long overdue, I gave birth to my beautiful boy on April 13th at 12:10pm. He weighed in at 6 lbs 13 oz 19 inches long and is PERFECT. We'll call him my little GT, like the car, haha.

The first couple weeks of parenting were not at all what I expected. I did expect it to be hard, but since I clearly had no previous experience caring for a newborn, I had no idea what I was in for. The breastfeeding issues, the sleepless nights, a crying baby, and total hormone overload really got to me. I am so happy to say that most of that has passed. Not the sleepless nights, but my breakdown crying reactions to them. And while formula feeding was never what I wanted to do, I have come to accept it and repeatedly remind myself that my baby is still going to be healthy even if he didn't get a lot of breastmilk. Afterall, I was formula fed and clearly I'm fine. Pretty sure they've improved on formula since the early 80s as well.

Last night was the first night that I got GT to sleep in his bassinet for two 2 1/2 hour stretches at a time. It was hard for me to let him fuss at first, but once he got that out of his system he fell asleep and I was able to as well. It was very nice to sleep in my own bed instead of on the couch.

I have all the shades open right now and it is a BEAUTIFUL day, I think I'd like to go for a walk later and am going to try to get ahold of mammagriffith and see if she'd like to go with me. I still have about 30+ lbs to lose to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight.

Well it looks like GT is currently working on a poop, so I better be off...I'll try to update this again soon, and hopefully I'll have a much more interesting blog!