2 weeks old

Well our little guy is now 2 and a half weeks old! crazy! We took him to his 2 week appt and he now weighs 8 lbs 13 oz and is 21 inches long! He is definitely a big eater! (when he wants to be) Lately he will be eating for about 2 minutes and either fall asleep or just gnaw on the bottle, if he falls asleep it lasts for maybe 5 minutes and then he is wide awake again! He has a cute personality already. He absolutely loves his hands! They are always by his face, in his mouth or trying to hold onto his bottle. He loves to look at any lights he can, loves his mobile in his crib, absolutely loved his first submerged bath last night and stretches just like his daddy :) He is kind of a sissy though, he whines and whimpers in his sleep all the time! He scares himself all the time with his HUGE burps or by his sneezes. He is getting better at not peeing on us when we change him, though he still does it a few times a week, its a boy thing I guess?
Mom and dad are getting a little more used to the lack of sleep, Mikey has been a life saver for me! He takes most of the nighttime feedings and lets me sleep a little longer. He says he is doing it because next week he leaves town for a few days for the first time since Brigg was born. Everyone pray for me please! I have already lost about 28 lbs and still counting! YAY!  Here are a few pics of the cute guy!


Just chillin with his hand down his pants...Mikey thinks he looks like Grandpa Sorensen again

He looks like a gangsta

Momma and Brigg in bath

Cute missionary hair do

Some more pics of Brigham

Here are a few more pics, he is definitely a Sorensen with all the pictures that have been taken :)

Reaching for his binkie, saved our sanity!

Of course looking for food

Look at the pants...looks like grandpa Sorensen...HAHA!

Big boy!

He had a huge cone head when he came out, it is back to normal now

Pretty boy!

Welcome Brigham Steven Sorensen

We had an induction set for Monday the 21st at 5:30 AM, but of course I had to go into labor myself on Sunday at 5:15 PM. We headed to the hospital around 9:00. I wasn't progressing as much as they wanted me to but decided to keep me there and have us walk for about an hour. The contractions were so bad I decided I would take a hot shower...helped soooo much! The nurse called the Dr. to see what we should do and he said to give me Pitocin at 3:00 AM and then once I hit 4 cm they could give me the epidural. Labor pains are HORRIBLE!!! I can't even imagine going through labor without drugs :) At 5:45 they finally gave me the epidural, kinda hurt but well worth the pain. Once I got that taken care of I zonked out. Only waking up to my nurses coming in and out every 5 minutes to look "busy" I wasn't too impressed with my nurses by the way. They wouldn't tell me anything about what was going on so I had to ask them everything. Finally around 10 they checked and I was about a 10 so they said they would call my Dr. Well, nurse comes in and says we are going to wait for me to progress more? Weird! Anyways around 12:45 they finally had my start pushing, by this time the epidural was wearing off and I was starting to feel the pain again. I pushed for about 30 minutes with the nurses before they called the Dr. in and of course they pushed me too hard and tore the crap out of me, Dr. wasn't too happy with them when she showed up. Brigham was born at 1:23 PM weighing in at 8 lbs 8 oz!! and a 15 inch head! I guess thats huge? He was hungry from the get go, biting the doctors fingers when she was delivering him. That was the most amazing experience of my life, to share that with Mikey was so awesome! I was so excited to see his reaction when he was born but I was crying too hard to even see what he was doing :)

We stayed at the hospital for about 24 hrs and they sent us home. First diaper changing at home he did what every little boy does and peed all over us! Silly kid!

The first night was terrible! He wanted to eat all the time and was never saitisfied so he maybe slept for 2 hours the whole night. Not what I expected from a newborn. Finally we called the hospital to see what we could do (we were about to break at this point) so they suggested pumping and giving him whatever we can get, we fed it to him and had my dad give him a blessing and right away he was a totally different baby! Love the power of the priesthood! He slept for about 4 hours and had 2 happy parents. Last night was 10 times better than the night before. We had his first appt with the pediatrician this morning and things are looking great other than he lost a little too much weight but the Dr. isnt to concerned considering his skin tone looks great. I also had an appt with the lactation specialist at the hospital and HOLY COW she was such a help! Again I was "taught" how to feed by my nurse before and it was nothing like what the specialist told me. So to sum things up we now have a happy normal baby! YAY!

We also have my family here to see/help with the baby and to celebrate Christmas. It has been great having family here especially for Christmas. They have been great dealing with my mood swings and constant feedings. Hope everybody has a very merry Christmas! We got the most perfect gift in the world!

Christmas at the Sorensen's

Ok so we finally found a rug for our kitchen.  We were going to put the two of them together like in this picture but it was just too big so we decided to just do the one and move the other rug into the family room.  This is mainly for mom. 

So it is almost Christmas and we still haven't gotten our best present yet.  If it doesn't happen over the weekend Monday morning at 5:30am we are scheduled to get Lindsey induced.  Hopefully the baby will come early on Monday so that we can get Lindsey and the baby home on Tuesday in enough time to get to watch the Cougars lay the beat down on the Beavers at 6pm :)

Here is the Christmas tree.  Lots of memories on the tree with all the ornaments we have gotten over the years.  Its funny there are certain ones that even though they are cheesy and we have better ones I still like to see on the tree remembering when I got them or just some kind of memory that makes them extra special.

Lindsey loves all the snow globes we got last year along with all the metal Christmas figures.  Also can see our fireplace kind of the glass has gotten really dirty and haven't had a chance to clean it. 

We will keep everyone posted on when the baby gets here.  If you have a cell phone that accepts pictures I will send you one asap after things calm down at the hospital.  If not you will have to wait until I get internet access.  I will have my laptop and I will use my phone to get internet as soon as things calm down in the hospital and I will get some pictures on the blog if I can or atleast send out an email to mom so she can forward it on to the Sorensens and I will get them off to the Woodruffs also.  Thank you to everyone that has called to check in and make sure we are doing good and for all the prayers people have said they have been saying for Lindsey. 

So I just realized that it doesnt show me who votes what on our poll, so no sweet prize :) unless you email me your guess too. If it were up to me I would have had him a couple days ago, I am definitely getting more and more anxious and just ready to get this over with. But I know its not up to me and he probably needs to "cook" in there a little bit longer.

Poll

I have added a poll to the blog to see when everybody thinks I will deliver the baby. We are hoping its not tomorrow while Mikey is gone for the day :) Whoever wins will get a sweet prize! Remember the due date is Dec. 22nd. Good luck!