2 Months

Karter turned 2 months old on Friday July 31st. People tell you time flies...They don't lie. Karter doesn't even look like a new born anymore. I have put away all his newborn clothing. He no longer wears newborn or 1 diapers anymore and hasn't for a while. This makes me so Sad.

I took Karter to the doctor yesterday for his 2 month well baby check up and for his first set of shots. I will say this was WAY harder on mom than him. I did hold in the tears until the nurse left though. I say that is pretty good. The first Vaccine was his oral vaccine...no one told me this wasn't a needle vaccine. So she is putting the liquid in his mouth I'm thinking this is the numbing medication. She laughed when I asked her if it was. He got his second and third in his left leg and the fourth in the right. He didn't know what to think at first and then did a pouty face and screamed. Face turned red couldn't catch is breath screaming. When she was all done I swooped him up so quickly. He stopped crying soon after.

2 month stats are:
Weight: 13 lbs. 3 ozs. 75-90%
Height: 24 inches 75-90%
Head: 40 1/2 cm. 50-90%
Dr. Prough says he is a big healthy boy. I was worried about him gaining enough weight...You never know how much they are eating when you nurse. She smiled and said Oh dear he is fine. She can tell he loves to eat.
We talked about sleeping. She told me that crying it out during the day is fine. I can let him cry but not longer than 25 mintues. She said this should only last about a week until he realizes this is where I'm gonna stay even if I am crying. I felt better knowing his Dr. was okay with me letting him cry. Now I am not to let him cry at night time until he is 4 months. This is fine with me.

Some thinks Karter is doing at 2 months:
-Smiling
-Some laughing
-Calms down real fast when mom or dad have him (We like this)
-Kicks legs and moves arms around real fast when looking at his name on the wall durning diaper changes
-sits in bumbo
-some tummy time (need to get better at this)
-Coos some
-Hates having clothes put on over the head
-Hates being put down during nap time
-Picky about his pacifier (only uses the one the hospital gave him)
-Can take a bottle if he's really hungry
-Loves the ceiling fan and clock
-Likes going outside with his daddy

We can't tell you how much we love being Karter's parents. We love this little boy and can't imagine life without him. He's perfect in everyway.

Over the last month

First 4th of July Celebration
Freedom and Faith Festival

5 Generation Picture

4 Generation Picture

Little Cowboy Fan.

Karter Loves sitting in his Bumbo under the

ceiling fan. He'll sit there forever.

Just watching his fan.

Daddy and Karter have matching outfits.

So cute

Karter's first walk in his stroller. I think he liked it.

Alot has happened since my last post.

On July 1st Karter got his cast off. The best birthday gift I could ever get. The doctor took new x-rays showing new bone growth. The bone had almost completely grown back together. There was still a small crack in it but Dr. Anderson thought it'd be easier on all of us to take it off. We were just really careful with it. We didn't pass him around for people to hold in the first few weeks after taking the cast off. We go back tomorrow July 29th for more x-rays. I'm taking homemade brownies the Dr. Anderson and his staff for taking such good care of Karter.

We had our first 4th of July. On Sunday before the 4th our church has a Freedom and Faith festival. So we went there for about an hour and a half. This was the longest he had ever been outside. Since then he has decided he is an outside kinda guy. On the day of the 4th we went to a car show for 20 minutes. It was extra hot outside so we didn't want to be out for too long. I took a bottle of ice water and a wash cloth and would dip the cloth in the water and put it on his little head to keep him cool. He really didn't know what to think about that. The rest of the day we spent inside. That evening we gave him a bath and listened to the fireworks outside. Brandon went outside to watch a few of them while Karter and I went to sleep.

Most of our days are spend hanging out at home just Karter and I. I love being able to be at home with him. The days go by so fast. He changes every moment. I couldn't imagine not being with him all day, every day.

Well I need to get off Karter is telling me he's hungry. Right on schedule.

Accidents happen is what I hear.

Well alot has happened in the first three weeks of Little Karters life. As most of you know on Friday June 12th Karter broke his little arm. Friday afternoon we were nursing and Karters arm was in a bad position on the boppy pillow. When he cried out I quickly picked him up and comforted him. We watched his arm the rest of the evening and noticed he wasn't moving it. Saturday morning we got up and took him to the emergancy room. They did x-rays only to confirm it was indeed broken. The next Monday morning I called his doctor to get a referral to an orthopedic surgeon. They did their x-rays and told us it was a "good" break and would heal on it's own in a few weeks. He put a new soft cast on it and sent us on our way. On Friday June 19th we went back to his doctor where she told us she spoke to the orthopedic doc. she says they are sure it happened during delivery. He did have a very hard delivery. I told her that was nice but I still felt like it was my fault.
We are getting better. I don't cry every time I look at him now. We are getting used to dressing, bathing and feeding him with it on. We go back to the dr. on July 1st to get the cast off. This will be the best birthday gift I will ever get.


In other news...Grandad and Meme came to Oklahoma to visit their newest great grandbaby. Brandon pointed out that we were number 11 great grandbaby but the first to carry on the Hayes name. We thought that was kinda cool. Karter and I talked about them coming to visit for a week. He was pretty excited to see them when they got here. I'd say they were pretty excited to see him too. Brandon and I love Grandad and Meme so much. They mean the world to us.

Will try to post more often. It's kinda difficult to get on the computer for more than a second at a time with a new baby.

Welcome Karter Jaron

Karter Jaron was born Friday June 5th at 7:31 pm. Friday morning at 1:00 am I got up to do one of my many runs to the restroom and felt a few contractions. I got back to bed where I had had a contraction every 10 minutes or so. About 2 am I felt like I was wet. I went to the bathroom again and noticed my water had broken. I got back to the room and felt all around the bed when Brandon woke up saying "what are you doing" I told him that it had broken....Well as some of you know we had just been to the hospital on Wednesday with a false alarm. So he told me to come back to bed and we'd wait a while. Well after about 5 minutes I got up saying I'm taking a shower then we are going. So after a shower and Brandon's breakfast we were well on our way to the hospital. We arrived there around 3 am and they checked me only to confirm my water had broken and I was dialated to a 1. I was staying for sure. At about 6:30 am they wheeled me up to my room and started my pitocin. At 12 I had my epidural.....The man was amazing. I agree with Rachel, this man was my new best friend. At 4 pm I was only dialated to a 4. Brandon was getting hungry so he made a quick trip to Sonic at 5. At 5:3o the nurses came in and said I was ready. FULLY DIALATED! I hadn't had time to talk myself in to the delivery part yet. At 6:00 I started to push. They noticed Karter wasn't in the right position. He was looking at 3 o'clock and should have been looking at 6 o'clock. I have 4 people trying to turn him while I would push during my contraction. This wasn't working so they decided to do the vacuum. My Dr. said if this didn't work I'd be sure to go in for a C-Section. I was not going to let this happen. I pushed with no break in between until Karter came out. He had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck 3 times. He also had a bruise on his forhead from being stuck. They took him to the warmer to work on him. He failed his Apgar test with a 4 but returned five minutes later with a 9. We were pretty scared cause we hadn't heard him cry for a full 45 minutes. We were pretty scared by this point. They were going to take him to the nursery cause he was having such a hard time breathing. But all he needed was his mommy. Once I got to be with him for a while his breathing got regular. He wasn't grunting or flarring his nostrils any longer.
So there you have it. That was our birth story. A full 19 hours in labor and a beautiful baby as my gift. I'd do it again in a heart beat, although while I was in labor I was saying quite the opposite.
Here are a few pictures of our new little family.
Thank you to all who have prayed for us in our family planning period, our pregnancy, birth and now for our future.

1 week to go.

I've been told by many people that having a blog to look back on is one of the most precious things I could do for myself and for our family. Pretty much this will be about Karter because everyone knows B and I aren't That interesting. So here it goes.

Today I'm 39 weeks pregnant. I have exactly 1 week to go until little Mr. is here. I must say I think B is more excited for Karter to get here than I am. In the past few weeks we have had our baby shower hosted by the best girl friends anyone could ask for. It was perfect. Low key but still FANTASTIC! A shower hosted by our neighbors and showers hosted by both of our jobs. Karter came away with so many great things. We didn't realize how someone so tiny could have So much stuff. We also have finished up the nursery. My grandma made all of his bedding. She did an outstanding job.


We had our Dr. appointment today. I've only gained 21 lbs. Blood pressure is great. Did a stress test and Karter is perfect. They keep saying he is gonna be a big boy. I sure hope he proves them all wrong. Our next appointment will be next week if he stays in there that long. We'll see. I'll be sure to let everyone know if something happens.

Here are a few pictures to hold you over until the next post.