My Rainbow has arrived!

Cédric James made his appearance at 8:19 am on April 4, 2013 weighing 8lbs11oz and was 21.5 inches long. He weighed 1 oz less than his older brother and 2.5 inches longer. The c-section went swimingly, a million times better than with Olivier, it only took one try for my spinal, and they gave me an anti anxiety injection to help with the spinal, and I had a great nurse with the anesthesiologist who helped me through the whole thing. I think that helped my recovery afterwards, I was up and moving around without help the next day, and walking the halls, holding the baby, the day after that. I did need to stay in until Sunday because I needed 3 days (post surgery day) of heparin shots (3 times a day!) and Cédric lost 9% of his body weight (at 10% the baby isn't allowed to leave) so Sunday we went home. Olivier has been dealing pretty well, and is getting better each day.
We have been breastfeeding, and today I finally saw a lactation consultant and found out that Cédric is mildly tongue tied which has been making the whole experience a little hard, but now that we know what the problem is, I am hoping we can work around it.
I am back in pre-pregnancy jeans! At 9 day post pregnancy I was able to put on, and button up, the last pair of jeans I bought before I got pregnant. They are a little tight, but I can wear them and breath at the same time so I count that as success lol.

Mama, papa and Cédric in the operating room

Mama and Cédric

His stats!

Finally in a room

Grandpa and Cédric

Finally home!

The best place to take a nap!

First night at home as a family of 4, both boys fell asleep on the couch!

So excited to hold his little brother!

Sorry about the silence!

Well as the title says, sorry about the silence! The last 9 months have been busy and hectic and as of today we are 2 days away from the impending birth of baby boy #2! He will be arriving by scheduled c-section on April 4. We are all very excited, although Olivier seems to be a little stressed this past week or two, but we will work through it like we have everything else. My father is in town to take care of Olivier while Jonathan and I are at the hospital with the baby. We are already looking forward to coming home and starting back to our life. Part of that life is the dreaded W word. Weight. Both Jonathan and I are very much overweight (I am actually ashamed of my last weigh in at the doctors last week) and we do not want to pass on our bad habits to our kids. So we decided that we are going to do Weight Watchers (going to try to go the free route by using the resources available on the internet) in the hopes that we all start eating better and making better choices. So I will be using this blog to chronicle that whole thing as well. Our weight loss, our life making the changes of going from one baby to two, as well as getting our wedding planned and buying a house. Its going to be a busy year! But first we have to survive the first few weeks with 2 kids lol.