The first 3 weeks with Zac!

It is hard to believe that 3 weeks have already passed since the birth of Zac and we haven't officially updated the blog...so here goes the 3 week catch up!

Seeing as how our son was LOVING his home in what was a very comfy uterus, the doctor mad the decision to induce labor on Tuesday, July 14th. At 9:45AM, they broke my water, and at 10:30AM, pitocin was started to begin labor. After a relatively short labor, Isaac Anthony Halsey was born at 6:40PM at Community North Hospital in Indianapolis. He weighed 8 pounds, 8 ounces and was 20 inches long with a 14.5" circumference for his head. Below is a picture of us with the doctor about 20-30 minutes after he was born! We were so lucky to have our entire family there to meet the little guy after he was born. I think in total, we counted 16 family members! We even had a cheering section that came in immediately after the epidural was administered and I was at about 5cm dilated!! I love my nieces and nephew! They definitely made the labor process entertaining (which would not have been possible without the epidural!)

Zac came out with a TON of hair...which is always the first comment we get when someone meets the little guy! The other thing he came out with was a touch of jaundice...enough that we had to put him on this device known as a Biliblanket which delivers UV light to break down the bilirubin which builds up and causes the jaundice. Unfortunately, as cute as he was as a glow worm.....it was NOT fun to have to carry him around for 3 days wrapped up in a cocoon with the glow worm light. It made for some challenging feeding sessions and sleep sessions...but we endured through it all. Then we found out the little man was tongue tied which was making feeding a very challenging/sore event. So, we took him to an Ear/Nose/Throat specialist and had his frenulum clipped to fix the tongue tie (lift up your tongue and look at that little flimsy flap of skin that connects your tongue to the bottom of your mouth...that is a frenulum) and hopefully help with the feeding (as well as possible speech problems in the future). We are continuing to work through this and the guy gets 'physical therapy' now from us, as we try to strengthen his tongue and make it stick out farther than his bottom gum line.

We've also been so lucky to have so many friends/family helping us out by watching the little guy and fixing us food, and bringing us goodies for the kiddo and ourselves. This entire event has really showed us how much love people have in their hearts and we really feel blessed to have everyone in our lives.

Here are some pictures from our first 3 weeks!
A family photo at the hospital
4 Generations of Halseys!
Our little man giving the 'Pickup Truck' wave!
A snooze with Daddy!
In the hospital, the kiddo didn't want to miss a thing! Always bright eyed and looking around!
1.5 weeks old at home with Mom!