One Month Old

I cant believe how fast these past 4 weeks have flown by. My baby boy is now a month old. 4 weeks ago I was blessed to give birth to a perfect angel. He is now smiling and cooing. He loves to look at his self in a mirror. He loves his mommy soo much. Every time I come into a room and just call his name he gets the biggest smile on his face. I love to just sit and watch him sleep. I wish I knew what he was dreaming about. I love the smiles he gives while nursing. Its soo funny to watch and see milk run out of his mouth. Those are the times when I wish I could make time stand still. I want him to stay lil and new, but at the same time I was to watch and see him learn and discover the world around him.

There is some pretty crappy stuff going on right now. and he seems to make most of it go away when I cuddle with him.

Today we spend most of the day with Papa Stew. It was the 1st time Link(my dad's 4 legged baby) met Gavin. Link was great with him. He didnt quite understand that Gavin is still a baby and cant play ball yet LOL. He kept bring Gavin his ball and looking at him Like ok toss it for me. He was very protective of him. Every lil squeak or cry he was right there sitting next to him and looking to make sure he was OK. He did over love him a bit kissing him. but its OK, nothing a lil bit of baby bath cant get off

12/20/07

On the 20th of December, Gavin was welcomed into the Jewish community by having his Bris Milah and His Naming . Now I know most people these days are keeping their boys natural and not having a CircumcisionYou have to understand that even thou we are not super religious. My bubby(grandma) wanted soo bad to have her great grandchildren brought up Jewish. So to Honor her wishes( she passed away in 04) we had Gavin's bris and naming during a very small family ceremony on the 20th. It was beautiful. My daddy and sister had the highest honors. And Gavin was named after 2 of the men in my life I miss the most. My grandfather's Irvin and Joe.

Bris Milah Judaism views body and soul as holy partners in serving G-d. Therefore, the bris is performed on the most physical part, for all of man is holy before his Creator. Bris Milah joins the forces of body and soul together in serving G-d


The naming of the childis the most emotional part of many bris ceremonies. Ashkenazic-European Jews have the custom of naming after the deceased. The immortalizing of a close relative or friend is a beautiful tradition. Sephardic Jews have the tradition to name after the living. A child may have one or more names, in accordance with the parents' desires

3 weeks old

Yesterday Gavin was 3 weeks old. Where did the past 3 weeks go??? He has had sooo many 1st these past 3 weeks. Today he played on the flood for 15 minutes looking at his self in his mirror and he started to laugh and smile. A real SMILE yesterday. He has had his 1st Xmas, and New Years. Along with his Bris and Naming ceremony. He was born on the last night of Hanukkah. He will be raised Jewish but He will know about Easter and Christmas along with Santa. We are a blended family.

Gavins LONG Birth Story

Gavin minutes old nursing for the 1st time
One day old

Gavin's Birth Story

I have been trying for days to write this, but with a very needy newborn baby boy it has taken me 3 weeks to type this out. And remember everything that when on with his Perfect Birth :)

Remember I have had 2 C Sections. Jakob was an emergency C after 26 hours of PIT due to a prolapsed cord. and Syd was a forced section( I went into labor on my own and was at 6 when I got to the hospital) but due to my ob being out of town. and the back up ob's was not willing to do a VBAC.

On 12-8 I noticed that I had started to lose the rest of my plug and at 11 I had my bloody show. I called dh(he was at work) to let him know what was going on. Now mind you I had been having contrax all night and the day before I felt great LOL. We did some shopping and I power walked walmart for 2 hours and had the best night sleep in months. I woke up with the nesting burst and I cleaned the whole house and even the fridge LOL. At 200 my mom called to say she was stopping by before work. After I got off the phone with her I went back to cleaning. At 230 I walked into the kitchen again and felt a POP and then a HUGE gush and I mean HUGE gush. I called my mom back she was walking up my drive to let her know my water broke LOL. She ran to me LOL helped me clean up and then ran to the store to get me some depends since dh had my suv and everything baby was in it ready to go LOL.
I called Dh and said he could come home if he wanted but not to rush. My contrax were at about 5 min apart..

I called my MW and let her know what was up. Our other MW was going to stay at the birthing center so when we were ready we could just head in. BIL and SIL came over we watched a couple movies and ate dinner. At about midnight we headed in. I got checked and was still at 3 and 60% effaced. We spend the night and at 6 am my contrax stalled OY. dh had to be at his ex's at 9 to get his son. We think I made myself stall labor due to dh having to be with his son all day. So I decide to go to my moms and try sleeping and resting.

I had contrax but not the bad take your breath away contrax all day the 9th. My MW lives around the block from my moms and she came over 3 times on the 9th and 10th we tried jump starting my stalled labor with castor oil and the crap is NASTY YUCK YUCK. Nothing worked LOL.. I started taking oral antibodies and watching for any type of infection. So far so good no fever or feeling sick. Just scared my body didn't know what do to on its own. I starting praying to god to let my body go into full blown labor that I could do it. I knew I was strong enough to push my baby out.

On the 11th My MW and I had a long talk LOL. If things didn't start that night then we would try the using my breast pump and black/blue colosh on the 12th in the am. Before bed dh had a long talk with my belly LOL and at 305 am the 1st contrax hit. And I knew that was it. I labored on my own using my moms ottoman to kneel over since being on all 4 worked the best. At 7 my lil brother got up for work and I asked him to get dh up. I called my mom at work and told her she needed to get home ASAP and asked her to call my sister. Dh had another visit with his son from 9 to 1 that day. But I told him sorry I was not going to try and hold him in any longer and if he missed Gavin's birth it would be on tape lol but i had my mind made up. My MW got to my moms at 9 and checked me I was at 6 and 80 % soft. So we stayed at my moms and with the help of my sister rubbing my back and putting pressure on my lower spine and hips during a contrax ( He wasn't sunny side up but he had his hand up by his face) which caused the back labor I was having. At noon I was at 7 and 100% effaced. So we called dh to let him know that we were heading to the birthing center in a few and to meet us there. Once we got to the birthing center I got in the tub and boy did that help. I still needed the counter pressure on my back during contrax but just floating in the water made things easer to escape. I stayed in the tub from 2 till 630. My MW decide to get me out of the tub since I was not dilating anymore and we tried squatting and walking for a bit. at 715 I felt like I had to push and let me till you my body took over. but i still had a lip of cervix on the back side I was sooo tired I kept praying to god and talking to Gavin asking him for help and god for strength to be able to push him out. My MW pushed it back and with 6 good pushes n a few lil ones out came his head and his left hand on the side of his fae then a HUGE gush of fluid out he came. Gavin was placed on my belly at 727 pm. I balled like a baby and I kept saying I did it I did it. I just totally push my baby out. a few min later I pushed out his placenta and from the size of it we knew that Gavin was a twin :( His brother saved him by giving up his own. I had my mother, my sister in bed with me helping me in every way., my best friend who taped the whole birth, my dh and doula both holding my legs back and MW's there. My dad and lil brother missed the birth by 5 min's. It was soo beautiful and Gavin was soo alert he nursed with in 10 min of being born. He just looked up at me and knew I was his momma. John was soo amazed( he got a lil freaked out when Gavins plecenta came out LOL) and in love with his new son. and being able to help catch him and place him on his momma belly.

After he nursed and we had some cuddle time. Everyone was taking guesses on how big he was. His stats are weight 8 lbs 7 oz
he was 22.5 ins long
his head was 14
and his chest was HUGE well to me LOL that was the hard part to push at 16.5. Even with how big he was mommy did NOT tear at ALL :) Just a tiny tiny lil skidmark and some brusing WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO :)

All in all we are in heaven and mommy is on cloud 9. I still cant get over I did this with NO Drugs and No help other then my faith and determination on having a natural birth. I didn't get my water birth but I did get everything else I wanted.

and just know that at anytime my MW felt that Gavin or I were in danger we would have gone to the hospital. We(dh and I) have full faith in her and our faith in god that everything was going to be perfect. and our lil man is right now sleeping next to me.