Introducing Callen Kenneth Chugg, born 5.6.11 at 5:06PM (05/06 at 05:06, awesome!). He weighed 7 lbs 2 oz (exact same as Selma) and 20.5 inches long. He had (and still has!) a full head of brown hair which the nurses shaped into the cutest little faux-hawk with little wings coming off the sides, love it!
I can't stop kissing those chubby little cheeks!
I was induced that morning at 8:30 and had the same posterior problem as I did with Selma which is why this labor ended up being a lot longer than what I thought a second labor would be.
About to get in the lovely gown
This is a better "belly shot"
Since the labor was taking a bit longer, we passed the time by watching a lot of TV and talking. Sky got the most use out of the Boppy that first day :)
My epidural was 1000x better this time around, it actually worked, hallelujah! At first it was the most perfect epidural, not too numb but numb enough to not feel any pain, so wonderful. Closer to the end, I was getting more and more numb and it really is the weirdest feeling. I do not like not being able to move your toes or anything no matter how hard you try so it was a little trippy up to the point where I had them stop the epidural for a little bit to gain some of that feeling back.
Sky's family took Selma for us that weekend that we were in the hospital so they came right before I was getting ready to start pushing. Selma did not want to get close to me at all while I was in the bed. I don't know if it had to do with her hospital experience last summer but she was definitely irked seeing me hooked up to all the machines and everything.
After pushing through 2 contractions, he was here! The most beautiful, perfect little boy.
One proud dad!
Selma and I with her princess flashlight and phone that Callen "brought for her," she loved it and was so excited! She also brought a gift for Baby Brother and gave them to him when she came to see him.
She thought he was "so cute" but didn't want to hold him for very long. She has been the best big sister, not too all over him but definitely involved, such a sweetheart.
Wanting us to take a picture of her too since we were taking so many pictures of Callen
Seriously the most chill dude! Just relaxing away. Notice all the blood vessels in my face broke from pushing this time, it's what happens every time I throw up too, so attractive :)
I can't believe how much he's already changed in one month.
I just love his hair, so snuggly in his jammies
Getting ready to go home, a completely different picture from the emotional and scared wreck I was when we were leaving the hospital with Selma
At home, Selma wanted him to lay be her in bed while we read stories
Our first family picture
The first couple of days home, she still wasn't too sure what to think of him :)
He had a little bit of jaundice at the beginning, but luckily not enough to do the bili-lights, thank goodness
"I'm going to get you Mom!"
My cheesy little princess
Such a sweet boy. This past month has just flown by!
Callen and Selma have pretty different personalities, at least as far as comparing newborns goes. Selma was a lot more demanding and dramatic whereas Callen is just chill and calm and has pretty much just cried when he's hungry or tired. As my mom pointed out, Selma is more like me and Callen is more like Sky :) For the most part, he wakes up once in the night to eat with me feeding him at 10, him waking up around 5 and then sleeping again until 8, so nice! Now if only I would go to sleep when he would, we'd be set.
It was amazing how different my two labor experiences with Selma and Callen. From the labor to the delivery to the post partum, just a complete 180. I was calmer, less stressed, in less pain, it's amazing how our bodies adapt and snap back! In fact, the first week after having him I felt so good that I didn't take it easy enough and ended up giving myself mastitis and the worst chronic headache that I have ever had for almost the entire second week post-partum. I just have to document that so that I can remember next time to actually lay down even if I feel like I'm going stir crazy because that second week was horrible!
Since then though, having two kids has been wonderful and I haven't gone too crazy.. yet. The part that has been the most stressful has been starting to work my shifts again managing the storage units. It's only 3 hours a day but when it's busy and he's crying (which seems to happen most on my shift, go figure!) and Selma needs something, oh man. Let's just say there have been a couple of days my mom or Sky have gotten phone calls from a crying, distraught woman. We've discovered that wearing him in a front pack during my shift works wonders, thank heavens for those!
All in all, we sure love our kiddos and couldn't ask for anything more right now, we feel so truly blessed and are so grateful for everyone's love and support, thank you thank you!
