So...it's been a long almost 3 weeks now. Lowe will sleep well some nights and other nights he is a little terror...screaming at everything and not being comforted by anything for longer than 5 minutes. My mom was down here for the last week and saved me and Tyler one night but taking Lowe so that we could get some sleep!!! If only she didn't have to leave yesterday...I think Lowe knew and decided to stay up almost all night crying and wanting to be fed every hour...fussy little baby.
nose and everything! But he never seems to be mad about it after it happens...he'll just want to eat again! So here are some pictures of him that Tyler took when Lowe was getting his little bath!
So here are a few pictures of little Lowe. Sorry they're so small but just click on them and hopefully they'll get big enough for you to see his cuteness!!! We'll get more put up as we get more taken! Yeah to little Lowe being here with us!
So I don't have any pictures on this computer yet...I'm still at the hospital but we are parents officially now!!! Little Lowe came only 6 hours after my water broke on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 at 3:47 am. He was 7 pounds 2.7 ounces and 20 inches long. He has a head of dark hair and is sooo cute!!! Pictures will be posted once I figure out where the pictures are.
So on Thursday I had an interview in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the hospital that I currently work at (UMC). I was called on Friday afternoon to be offered the job and I accepted it!!! So I will be working in the NICU at UMC as my very first nursing job out of school! I will be having to start nights which is the one bad thing but it makes sense that everyone that starts on that unit starts on nights. That's their policy and I understand. I will be making a 15% differential though for working nights which is pretty nice (yeah to 15% more per hour...). So I'm super excited to finally know that I've got a job!!! Yeah!!! New Grad orientation starts on July 20th. Yeah to getting a job!!!
So yesterday I got this huge urge to make my own nursing cover. I knew both my sister's in law on my side had ones that were home made and they're both really cute. So I googled it and found a site with really easy directions and pictures to go along with it: http://www.blisstree.com/breastfeeding123/free-pattern-to-sew-your-own-nursing-cover/
So I changed the directions a bit because I got this brilliant idea to use a receiving blanket that matches the crib sheet set that we've got in the baby's room!!! So since I had like 8 of them, I figured I could spare one for a nursing cover. It took me a while longer than I thought it would partly because it took me a while to find the corset boning and D rings at Joanns and a while to figure out what fabric to use for the straps and binding out of the stuff I already had at home! But I got it finished late last night and so it's in the diaper bag along with everything else little Lowe might need. Yeah to that! So here's a picture of the sheet set and some of the nursing cover.
That's the sheet set in our crib...
This is just a close up of the straps on the cover
Another look at the straps, this time from the back
There's a pic of the back of the cover, I used some left over fabric I had to add a second layer to the blanket to be sure it wouldn't be see thru. The fabric just happened to be flannel so it's all nice and soft on both sides!
