Caleb Crankypants

Caleb's birth can be described in one word. Loud. For someone who was a little over 6 lbs, there was a lot of noise coming out of his little body. I was pretty happy to hear the screaming since it was a little tense in that birthing room up until he came out. We had resorted to the foreceps option after 2 hours of Rielah pushing.

She was tired and hungry since it was running into the 12th hour. Since her water broke at 3:00AM, both of us were running on about 3 hours sleep in 24 hours. I can't imagine other women having 30 hour labors. I would have passed out from hunger and I'm not the one doing the pushing. On a side note, never ever eat an italian sub if your wife complains about it. I think we were food poisoned the day before. I was feeling pretty ill when we got to the hospital. I was just imagining me being in the bathroom when Caleb plopped out.

And as for the foreceps.....how on earth do those things go into a woman? I'm still in disbelief. They drugged Rielah up pretty good before they attempted that. I have to say that Rielah was pretty adamant that Caleb was coming out on the first attempt using foreceps. She was pushing and just wouldn't stop. It was like Popeye in the cartoons. ""Enough is enough, I've taken all I can and I t'aint taking anymore." Eats the spinach and kapow!!!!


The nurse called Caleb, "Crankypants". At night the babies stay in the nursery while the mother sleeps. Every 2 hours they wake the mommy up to breastfeed the baby. Caleb doesn't sleep at night and needed to be held to be quiet. He is loud. The loudest baby in the nursery from what I could tell. I can understand the nurses being a little put out by him.

He kept me up on his first night at home. I thought I could handle it since the 2 nights at the hospital wasn't too bad. Sleeping in between feeding and changing his diapers wasn't too difficult. I didn't realize the nurses taking him at night was such a luxury. He just wouldn't sleep without careful monitoring. Instead of 6 hours of broken sleep, I am getting maybe 4 hours of broken sleep. I sleep while he is feeding and I am awake the rest of the time while Rielah sleeps. My head is foggy the rest of the day.



He woke his mommy up at 3:00AM every night when he was in the womb. Looks like he is a night owl like his dad. Ugh. At least the poop doesn't stink too much in the beginning.



Here he is looking deceptively peaceful. Little do you know the scheming going on.



I'm watching you, so don't try anything funny.