I think that we enjoyed Logan's first parade more than he did. After hanging out with the Heng Family at a shower, we went to the parade for a while with Great Grandma and Grandpa and Great Aunt Connie and Uncle Tim. We were so worried about the fire trucks we covered his ears... he may have only gotten scared a few times. He was out like a light when we got home!

What am I, a milk machine?

Well as you can tell our second week was alot of feedings! Logan has been latching on like a champ, but we are sure getting tired of feeding 10-12 hours a day. Things are getting better though, so hopefully with time we can get that cut down! He has been sleeping fairly well waking up usually around midnight-one o'clock and again between five and six... Dr. Smith gave me the go ahead to have Logan sleep at least on stint of 5-6 hours without a feeding. We have been trying to get that during the night so we can get a few extra hours, but he continues to wake up every three or so. Someday!!
We have been fortunate within the last week to continue to have alot of visitors. Jodi met us in Pine River at my work for a visit while she was in Little Falls for work and Aaron, Emily and Avery came over from Park Rapids. It has been fun to show our little guy off to everyone.

Last weekend we made a quick trip back to my parents lake place to introduce Logan to Great Grandma Helen and then we headed to Barnesville to meet Great Grandma and Grandpa Heng. He did well for his first night away from home and didn't keep the entire family up, which I was really worried about. Great Grandma Helen said that she didn't mind and could turn the TV up if she heard him crying. I didn't hear any complaints from the Grandparents, they were just tickled to have some more time with him.

While we were visiting in Barnesville, we decided to make a quick trip to Fargo to meet Amy and Ryan baby Gavin. It was super fun to visit and catch up on how things are going with them.

Just a note on Ace and Gaddie. Appears that they are not becoming better friends... Ha!! They are still not certian what is going on with Logan, but they keep on sniffing him. Gaddie has started to check out Logan while I am feeding him and sits right on my lap with him. With time Logan is going to have some great pets! Ace is just having some problems with sleep deprivation too.

We of course has a few first this week with Logan. He had his first bath in his bathtub which resulted in making more of a mess... that pee can sure fly!! (I am sure he is going to love this when he gets older) We tried to videotape, which would have been great, but for some reason it didn't record. John also went back to work this week, which was hard, but not nearly has hard as I had thought. We went on our first walk, which was great! We have been on a few more walks since, but not nearly as far as before. I can't wait until I am fully healed from the c-section to get back out there!

We also decided that it would be good to do a trial run before Logan's baptism. We made it through our first Church service this morning. We were pretty proud even to get out of the house and there on time, let alone getting him through most of the service only needing to change one diaper and leave once for a little crying. He seemed to be pretty interested in the hymns and was mesmerized by all the lights! Hopefully he will do this good during baptism. After Church we had the Felton's over for Grandpa Felton's 76th birthday party.

Anyone that is interested in coming to Logan's baptism is welcome, it will be on September 13th here in Walker. If you plan to make it, let me know so we can get a cabin for you at the resort.

2nd visit to the Doctor

We went back to the Dr. and Logan weighed in at exactly his birth weight! I have to continue to feed him on an every other hour basis for another week and then we will finally be on his schedule. It will be interesting to see how often he will be hungry.

Logan's belly button has not completely healed yet, (it continues to bleed) so he used some silver nitrate to stop the bleeding, if this doesn't heal soon, we will have to go back in.

Our next scheduled appointment is September 3 for his one month check up.

Follow up Doctor's Appointment

We went to the Dr. on Friday August 14 for a follow up after being discharged from the hospital. Dr. Smith didn't think that we needed to check his Jaundice as he said that looked pretty good! He weighed in at 7 lbs 9 oz, which was still below his birth weight, but he had gained back to his discharge weight from the hospital. He was in the 50th percentile for his height and weight but in the 90th percentile for his head circumference. The nurse had to come back in to check again... all the more room for his HUGE brain! I knew we were going to have a smart boy, ha! Logan also developed a rash from the hot weather that we had the week he came home, along with another type of rash that John and I can neither remember or if we did can't pronounce... We head back to the Dr for another appointment on the 19th to check out his weight again. The Dr. has me waking Logan up to feed him about every other hour to get his weight back up! Let the sleepless nights begin.

Where has the time gone?

It has been over a week since Logan joined our family. Wow, where has the time gone? I do have to say that being a parent is a lot more time consuming than I thought! So for those of you that have been nice enough to call, text, e-mail I am sorry that I have not gotten back to you. I feel like I am either feeding, burping or trying to get a few zzz's in before the next round. Although we love every minute of it, I now understand what people mean by "When Logan sleeps, you sleep". Got it!! It sure does make me appreciate having such wonderful parents! Talking about wonderful parents, Grandma Heng has gone above and beyond on Grandma duty. She has been able to come and stay on two different occassions, most recently this week. She was here to help me out when I had to do a few things for work. She was able to help Logan out when I had 17 9th-12th graders here at my house and a production crew! We made a video for a campaign that we are working on to be played in the local theater. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

It will be a week tomorrow that we have been home from the hospital. We have been blessed to have a lot of friends and family to come and visit us! Katie, Maddie and Margo came to visit from Moorhead on Friday. Theresa, Mike and John have been so good to us and brought us breakfast and supper on Saturday! Sunday was also a very special day, Grandpa Felton (and Grandma Felton) came to meet Logan and Grandpa Heng couldn't stay away so he made another day trip!

We have had a few "firsts" this short time we have been home, including our first bath, the oops, we need to be careful with changing diapers (boys have some good aim!). We also have made it out of the house for an outing on Tuesday, we went to my work at the Family Center and to Johns work at Northwoods Dock. We quickly found out that we were not ready when we got almost to my work in Pine River (about 20 minutes away) and forgot the diaper bag! Oh boy!! We have also made a trip to meet all the ladies at the grocery store that work with Grandma Felton. Logan was sure the talk of the store!

Home Sweet Home!

We made it back home last night about 7:30 p.m. I was discharged from the hospital at noon on Thursday, but we had to be moved to the pediatrics unit as Logan still had Jaundice. His levels finally did go down later in the day and he was discharged around 5:00 p.m. We were happy to hear the news that we were able to head home! Grandma Heng was waiting for us at home. Ace and Gaddie welcomed Logan home, but they are still not certain what is going on yet. They are keeping their distance and surprisingly are doing very well with the adjustments.

We made it through our first night without any problems! We set the alarm to make sure we made our three hour feedings and breast feeding went well throughout the evening. He even let us sleep almost 7 hours, lets hope that this continues. Breast feeding has been going much better since the last time I posted, we were blessed with some great nurses while we were in the hospital.

What a great couple of days!

We are so blessed again to see how many friends and family we have to support us as our family has grown. Yesterday, Shannon a fellow Wino stopped by to meet Logan, it was nice to see her and visit, although it has been requested that we don't put her picture on the Internet ;) Our friends Clarissa and Andy brought us supper from Arby's, boy was it great to have some french fries, we have not had them since March! Yummy!!! My boss, Leslie also brought by a plant with a gift card to Pizza Hut (also have not had pizza since March) so we are looking forward to our next trip down to Brainerd to use that! We also continue to receive balloons, plants and flowers from friends and family that don't live close enough to visit. It has been fun to get the special deliveries!

Grandma Heng is back for her second visit this afternoon and will be staying at our place in Hackensack until Friday and will come back again next week to help out with a few things that I have to do for work.

I am in my regular street clothes today, which feels great!! I continue to heal from surgery, but it helps that I have a beautiful little boy to keep me busy from thinking about it. Logan has done a great job of feeding today. We had our first successful feeding last night and it continued through the night and all day today! What a blessing. Thank you for all of those well needed prayers for patience! Our nurses are very happy to see that I had the patience to get through it! We are also very happy to have him eating as he has a case of jaundice! Our nurse called the pediatrician this evening to see if they could put him under the light so that we can hopefully go home tomorrow! He will be there as long as he is sleeping and calm and this will continue throughout the night.

We made it through our first night!

Greetings from our family to yours. We are so fortunate to have so many people in our lives that are wanting to hear about Logan and welcome him into the world! We are so blessed.

We made it through our first night great. We all got alot of sleep, but we are still trying to get Logan to latch on so that we can breast feed. We will continue to be patient with this, but I do request that you send prayers our way for patience! Logan has been having a tough time as he still has some fluids in his tummy, however has been getting it out on his own, thus far. I am very uncomfortable due to the C-Section. I will continue to take it easy, but it is worth every second that I get to be with my son.

Grandma Felton, Aunt Jance and cousins Brandon and Breanna stopped by last night to visit. They were very excited to meet Logan and welcome him into our family. This morning Pastor Mark stopped by to pray and welcome Logan as well. We have his baptism already planned for the middle of September. You can also check out Logan at the on-line nursery at http://www.sjmcmn.org/

May we introduce Logan John Felton

Logan John was born at 4:21 a.m., weighs 7 lbs. 15 oz. and is 21.5 inches long. He has a beautiful head of hair (he didn't get that from the Heng side) and is absolutely perfect! As you can see in the pictures, after laboring from 5:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. it was decided that we needed to take Logan John out via C-Section. I did take an epidural at midnight, I couldn't handle the pain any longer. However, every time we had a contraction, Logan's heartbeat dropped and appeared to be in distress and since my water had broken we didn't have much choice to wait. I was rolled down to the operating room a little after 3:30 and we delivered Logan at 4:21. John was there right by my side and was able to be with Logan after he was born. I was in the recovery room until 6:00 a.m. and was then brought to meet my new family! We couldn't be happier!!

We have had a few visitors already today. Grandma and Grandpa Heng drove over from DL this morning after we told the news. They are very proud of him!! My friend Theresa from Hackensack was our first visitor after she had an appointment with the OB. We also received visitors from Kelsey, Josh, Anna and Aaron (family of my boss) that stopped by to say hello. We expect to have Johns family with us tonight.

Hospital Update

Hello Family and Friends. I know that some of you are checking on the blog to see what is going on. I will just put up a quick update at this point and maybe another one after we get checked again. We showed up to the hospital at 3:30 and were admitted after being checked. Dr. Rice was here and waiting for us. She attempted to break my water right away and it was too difficult, she thinks because the bag of water was right up next to the baby's head. I didn't make much progress since Friday, was still at 2-3 cm and 50% effaced. I started to have regular contractions but at that point, I couldn't really feel them that much.

She checked again after she checked again close to 5:00 and I was 2-3 cm and 70% effaced. She attempted to break my water again and was able to get a bit of it, so I have been leaking since. Got to love wearing a diaper!

We have been able to get some great hospital food... mmmmmm!

The baby is doing really well and is responding well to contractions. I on the other hand don't like the contractions so much! They are coming about a minute a part and are lasting from 30-45 seconds. I am going to get checked again to see if I have progress in about 20 minutes. I will update again afterwards.

Update

Today has been nothing but an emotional roller coaster. We woke up at 5:00 a.m. to make it down to Brainerd for our appointment at 7:00 a.m. While we were heading out the door, my cell phone rang and it was Labor and Delivery telling me that they are going to postpone my appointment. They said that they would call us back in two to three hours. What a huge disappointment! I called them back around 8:30 and they said that they would know more after noon. I just got off the phone will Dr. Rice and she told me to head down there to get checked out at 3:30. Not certain exactly what that means at this point. So we will keep everyone posted as to if we will be induced or not today. We hope that we will be able to get to meet our little one really soon!

39 weeks, 3 days

Here I am Saturday, August 1st at 39 weeks, 3 days. We are still patiently waiting for Baby Felton to come on his/her own, but no signs thus far (5pm). We are taking today to get the house ready and to get some well needed R & R. We have stocked up the house with food, done all of the laundry and gotten a few other projects completed. Now we wait, we have been praying for our little one to come before tomorrow morning, but we as the day comes to an end, we are not certain that this is the plan! I am extremely anxious about how things will go either tonight or tomorrow morning (ok scared). We can't wait to meet our little one and we pray that everything with labor and delivery of our little one will go well. We will keep people posted tomorrow!

Thank you for all of your thoughts and prayers, we appreciate them all!