Baby Rowan

I was bigger this pregnancy than with any of my others, so when baby Rowan arrived and was big,  I was not too surprised.  And he was a week early!

Baby Rowan arrived at 8:12 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2015.  8 lb. 12 oz.  21.5 inches.  He was very chubby and everyone in the operating room kept remarking on how big he was. This was the kids' first glimpse of their new brother.

Rowan is now 6 days old and has still hardly opened his eyes.  They seem kind of swollen and glued shut, plus I think having chubby cheeks makes them harder to open.  It is weird for me to have a chubby baby, I am interested to see if it lasts.

Full Name: John Rowan Bailey.   He was almost "Theo" (John Theodore Bailey), but in the end I had my way and we went with Rowan.

I don't think there is even a picture of me with Rowan yet, I have just felt too awful.  The recovery from the C-section has been considerably harder than my other deliveries, but I feel a little better each day.  The entire experience was quite scary anyway, I really didn't like the idea of being paralyzed and then cut into like that while i was still awake. The experience did turn out to be quite freaky because pain sensation and pressure sensation are completely separate, so the spinal anesthesia blocked all the pain but I could still feel the pressure, so I could feel the doctor slicing into me 4 times, then I could feel them pressing on the baby and pulling him out.  The scariest was probably feeling the doctor stitching me up and pulling hard on the threads to tighten the stitches.

a rare moment with his eyes open.

There was a little bit of a snowstorm the day we were discharged.