Coy Blake- 1 Month

At 1 month Coy:

Weighs 10.1 lb

Is 21 inches long

Wears size newborn diapers and newborn clothes. He can wear 0-3 month sizes but they are a little big in him still.

His favorite toy is the baby mat that was given to him by a dear family friend. He LOVES laying on it and doing tummy time on it.

He nurses every 2 to 3 hours. When he does take a bottle it is 3 ounces. He wakes up about 2-3 times during the night on average. Some nights he will only wake up once and other nights he will wake up 4 times. Most of the time I can count in him waking up at least twice.

He sleeps best laying on his mommy and daddy's chest! He is a definitely cuddle bug! At night I have to swaddle him up so he will sleep by himself. During the day, he mostly sleeps in the swing or on his baby play mat.

First time in the bouncer at almost 2 weeks old... He was not that impressed! ;)

He has had his first stuffy nose. :( Big brother got some sort of cold and shared it with all of us, so all four had stuffy nose/sore throat deal for a few days. I will tell you that cinnamon and honey worked wonders on that cold (for those of us that could take it)!!

Is ticklish on his legs. I have tried everywhere and that is the place I get a smile from. 

He is so loved by his big brother!! Levi loves to love on him by holding him, giving him hugs, and giving him kisses! Sometimes Coy gets kisses and mommy & daddy don't! ;)

Look at that little grin!

We are so very thankful for this sweet, peaceful little boy!!!

Coy: 1, 2, & 3 Weeks Old

I am just going to share some pictures, I promise!!

One week...

Getting some brother love!

I didn't realize he had on the same shirt that he did in his 2 week old picture.
But it works because you get to see how much he changed in just one very fast week.

Love these two boys!!

Pure sweetness

I will tell you that at 2 weeks we went to the doctor for Coy's two week old well baby check-up... He weighed 8 lb 2oz!!! The doctor thought this was great since I am breastfeeding and it normally takes breastfed babies a little longer to gain weight so soon. He referred to Coy's breast milk as "jet fuel"!!!  ;) I was SO happy to have the proof of him gaining weight, it just helps reinforce my want to breastfeed! :)

Coy smiled!!!

Coy's first REAL smile was the day after he turned two weeks old!! I was moving him into the living room from the bedroom, carrying him in the Dex Daydreamer. As I was walking, I was just a jabbering to him and he just looked right up at him a grinned!!!! It just melted my heart!!!!! I haven't gotten a picture of him smiling yet but here are a few anyway....

Snug as a bug in a rug.

Coy's Birth Story

This is a VERY long post so beware!!!

Coy's birth story must start with his pregnancy.... I had a fairly easy pregnancy the whole time. I stayed hot with all the fans on in the house until the day after I had him! I also didn't exercise like I did with Levi's pregnancy, which made it a little hard to not gain too much weight... Speaking of which, some said I looked bigger this time than I did with Levi, others said I looked the same. I think I was the pretty much the same with a few differences; Coy was up higher than Levi, I felt hot all the time with Coy, and I had acid reflux with Coy and heartburn with Levi...

Now on to his actual birth....

 Dr. Moersch checked me on a Thursday at 38 weeks and I was between a 1 and 2 and 50%thinned (same as the week before). She asked me about inducing, I told her I would rather wait, so she told me to be back next Thursday and off I went! I went to the school that following Monday as a final walk through before school started and to get things organized. Monday evening/night I started having what I was calling Braxton Hicks contractions every 8 to 10 minutes. They were pretty steady for about two hours and then they weren't so I just decided to go on to bed and see what happened the next day.

Tuesday I had "Braxton Hicks contractions" all day at irregular intervals until about 5:30-6:00 that night. Then they started getting more regular and very intense. And by intense I mean when I was in labor with Levi, my contractions were about in the same level when my water broke... But these contractions were still up to 8 minutes apart... So off to bed we went to wait and see. I kept having these contractions all night and was up and down constantly. About 1:30 am the contractions actually woke me up. By 4:30-5:00 I couldn't lay in bed anymore so I told Rickey I was going to get up. He asked if he needed to plan on going to work that day and I told him "probably not". ;)

By 5:30 I went back to Rickey and told him to go ahead and get up and take me to the hospital. At this  point the contractions were 4 minutes apart and I was a good deal of pain with each one. We were on the road around 6:00 (Rickey took his time getting ready!) ;) and Linda was with Levi...

We got to the hospital at about 6:40. There nurse tells me I am between a 4 and 5. We waited for about an hour and the nurse came back and said Dr. Moersch wanted to admit me to the hospital. They came and did the blood work for the epidural and asked if I wanted right then... I said no that I wanted at 8:00 (about 20 minutes later). I waited until 8:00 on the dot and called the nurse back in there to let her know I was ready for that epidural! 

By 8:20 they were in there with the epidural. However, this is where the problem was. Apparently there was a "hot spot" where Coy was preventing the medicine from getting to one spot in my stomach. It was horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The same time we discovered I had this EXTREMELY PAINFUL hotspot the doctor wanted to break my water. She checked me and I was between 8 and 9. They finally came back in and gave me more medicine to fix the hotspot and directly after that I started pushing! I pushed for about 15 minutes and Coy Blake Denosn arrived at 9:39 am!!!!! :)

Overall, we hadn't been at the hospital 3 hours when I  delivered Coy! That was seriously the fastest delivery ever!!! My mom was the only one who made it to the hospital before I started pushing and she didn't make in time to see us before that! I think Coy was just in a hurry and wanted to meet everyone super fast!!

Coy Blake Denson, 7lb 3oz, 20 inches long

Look at that face!! So sweet!!

We are now a family of four!!!

Levi adored holding and kissing his baby brother!!!

He took is cap so he could see Coy's head...

Then he took Daddy's hat so Coy could wear it! 

Ready to go home!!!!!!! (I didn't get to take any pictures of him at home in his outfit because he used the restroom as soon as we got home and it got all over his shirt!)

Coy's First Doctor Visit

We had to take Coy for his first doctor visit two days after we got home, which landed on Monday. Our appointment was at 1:00 so we could avoid the sick patients. Coy's weight was back up to his birth weight which is great!! (He weighed 6lb 13oz when we left the hospital.) We were both so relieved to hear that he had gained weight and was back up to his birth weight already!!! :)

Of course these two HAD to match for Coy's first doctor appointment!! :)

That is one proud big brother! 

Giving his baby Coy kisses!!!