Alex & Lisa's Baby: 1st few days home

We made it home from the hospital on Thursday around 2pm. The first few nights at the hospital were mixed. He was up and down, but the nurses were there to help. We get home Thursday and he was sleeping ok for most of the day. Then around about 5pm, he just won't go back to sleep. Crying like crazy, trying to do what we can to keep him calm. We'd feed him, still won't go to sleep, continued to cry. So Lisa calls the Dr about 5am. they walk us through some stuff including taking a temp rectally. :) poor guy.. it comes up 96 degrees, which is not good for a newborn. So they say, come in to the ER room to get him checked out. Once he gets there, he's sound asleep, temp is perfect. ER doctors said he's perfectly healthy newborn. That would be a over reaction on our part. :) Then aside from slipping on some oil in the parking garage, Ethan was safe in his car seat and was not hurt in anyway thankfully (my knee on the other hand is still hurting)

Lisa on the other hand was not doing to well either. She was in pain, had some swelling in her legs and was feeling some anxiety. She called her doctor, and they said to come in and get checked out in case of any blood clots. She gets checked out and is ok as well. So a couple ER visits, and all is ok after everything is said and done.

Saturday, he slept a little better, but still was up quite a bit.. in the afternoon, we had Bill, Brett, Shirley and Sara visit and meet the little guy. he slept through most of it. then later that night, We had Rachel, Kevin, Uncle Kissy and Aunt Martha, Paige and Bill (Lisa's dad) over for dinner. He was up more for them, but is now starting to settle into a 3 hour sleep, eat cycle. Hopefully we'll keep it that way for a little while. Last night we finally got more sleep. Both Lisa and I are starting to get away from checking on him every 2 minutes.. :) again new nervous parents. Both of us got some sleep, still sleep deprived, but it's getting better. Monday the little guy has his first appt with his new pediatrician. Hopefully everything goes good with that.

That's all the report for now.. now as I'm sure everybody wants to see.. more photos of the little guy..