- It's two PM, and baby Luke was born at 9:40 AM.
So this is his very first 24 hours here in this world.
We've already been moved to the postpartum room.
He went pee right away, right when they tried to like,
check his vitals or something, he peed on the nurses.
[Bailey Laughing]
And he's been trying to eat and nurse but I don't know yet.
Which I'm not expecting him to be perfect right away anyway.
Right when he was born, he came out
and was just crying and crying.
And it was so cool to hear that
because I don't think our other kids
really cried like instantly.
Some of them cried like soon after,
but he was just crying and I just,
it felt so healthy and strong and it was so special.
Now he's just doing a lot of sleeping.
We're waiting for him to go pee and poop again.
Every once in a while, he wakes up and cries a lot
and I try to feed him,
but mostly he's just happy to be held and comforted.
He's not like latching on and doing long feedings,
he's more like, what's going on, what's in my face?
We'll see how that goes.
(calming music)
- [Christopher] Good sleepy guy.
- So he's the tiniest baby we've ever had.
And he's six pounds and 10 ounces.
He's 19 and a quarter inches.
He's already been visited by my sister,
who's his Aunt Sarah, Aunt Rachel,
my friend Rachel, my dad, and Erik.
And then all the kids, so his big brothers and big sister
got to see him born, except for his big brother Duncan,
he hung out in the waiting room.
But they all got to see him be born.
Now he's huge, look at his little face.
Hi!
So they don't give him a bath right away.
We'll do a bath at the 24 hour mark.
So they kind of just wipe him down and rub the vernix
that he's surrounded in when he's inside of me.
They rub it into his skin.
You can kinda tell since he has so much hair
that it's a little clumpy
from having that vernix rubbed into it.
We can't believe it's two PM already.
- Wait, it is?
- Yeah, can you believe the day's gone by so fast?
You're already growing too fast.
Look at his little chin.
It's like a little cleft in a chin.
Hi, you gonna smile?
- [Christopher] You got some bubbles?
- Bubbles, silly!
So my first big meal after baby
is like, cheese fries covered in buffalo sauce
in the high hopes that I will no longer have heartburn
because I have birthed, so this is my big celebration meal,
and then I also have mac and cheese,
which I'm also gonna put buffalo sauce on.
Getting a little spicy and my milk hasn't come in yet,
it won't come in for a couple days,
so I don't have to worry about
the baby getting too much spice, I don't think.
It's like good timing for me to have a real spicy meal.
Hi, little boy, waking up?
- [Bailey] I love you, Luke.
- It's 4:30 PM, and this little guy is
starting to look around and open his eyes a little bit.
So disturbing.
- Sorry.
- He's laughing.
Hi!
- [Rachel] His head is so tiny.
- [Jessica] So tiny.
- [Rachel] So tiny.
- [Jessica] Hey!
- So it's almost eight o' clock,
and we're about to take the baby in for a weigh-in.
See how he's doing, how you doing?
He said he's good.
We've got some visitors here.
Our friends, Katie and Krystal.
How are you doing?
Good.
- [Katie] She's a rock star.
- We did have one little moment that was kind of scary,
where he spit up and he started choking on it.
We couldn't get it out and he turned blue very quickly.
And we couldn't get him to breathe
and the nurses came in, they helped out.
He started crying and we got his,
his oxygen content up to 100% so good.
- And that was at like 5:30.
- And that was at like 5:30, yeah.
- [Nurse] I know, don't get mad.
- Shh.
(pleasant music)
Guys, he is such a sweet little baby.
Yeah, I'm talking about you, you little sweetie.
Hey, buddy, you looking around?
Are you looking around?
- It's a little bit after midnight.
We're giving the baby is first little manicure.
He's been realLy trying to scratch for is face a bunch
and this is tricky business, this is like,
the hardest part of parenting so far, right, Christopher?
- Something like that.
They felt like daggers before,
now they just feel like little, soft daggers.
- We're doing something called kangaroo care right now,
where he's skin to skin.
So he's not wearing any clothes,
but I'm covering him with a blanket
and then he's inside my shirt.
He hasn't been able to nurse yet.
I think because he has all this mucus
that he keeps coughing up and having trouble.
He like starts choking whenever he tries to nurse.
The nurses here aren't too concerned
because they say as long as it's in his first 24 hours,
they don't really expect him to eat much.
I've seen that when I've had other babies too.
The first 24 hours are usually just your colostrum,
which is like your first milk, which is very nutrient-dense,
but you don't usually get a lot of it.
And then your like regular milk comes in a little bit later.
So he's not getting much yet, but hopefully tomorrow,
he'll get some of this amniotic fluid out of his lungs
and he won't be as spitty and he'll be able to
eat a little bit better, we'll see, hopefully.
But right now, they've said not to be concerned,
and just to let him kinda recover from his big day.
- One of the things they say about
babies that come really quickly, like he did,
is that they don't get squeezed out a whole lot,
and so they still have a bunch of
amniotic fluid inside of them,
and they need to cough all that stuff up.
Apparently, that happens with C-section babies a lot too,
where they don't get all that amniotic fluid out right away,
so what we're doing with him is
we're kinda keeping him upright as much as possible,
keeping a close eye on him.
And really just cuddling him as much as we can.
(pleasant music)
- [Jessica] It's a full body experience
when you're body's so little.
(pleasant music)
- [Christopher] It is five AM,
he still hasn't latched on to breastfeeding
so Jessica has pumped a little bit of colostrum,
which is the early milk.
And so we're gonna try and give it to him
for the first time right now and see how he does with it.
(pleasant music)
- So it's eight AM, and you're almost 24 hours old, mister.
(giggles) Yeah!
He just had his first pediatrician's visit
so his pediatrician came in to the hospital
and checked him out and there a few things
he wants to follow up with, so we got
some more people we're probably gonna see
outside of the hospital or at the hospital if they can come.
And we're also going to get a visit
from an occupational therapist to work on his suck.
So we saw a lactation consultant
and the pediatrician within like 10 minutes of each other.
They both agreed that he needs a visit
from the occupational therapist to work on is sucking
and then I'm gonna start pumping every three hours.
And hopefully producing some something, making sure
my milk supply is coming in and not being ignored.
Even if he never ends up able to latch,
hopefully we'll get me pumping enough that that works out.
And that's what we're working on today.
Say hi, hi!
We're gonna be working on upping my milk supply
and him working on his sucking abilities.
(giggles) And that's the goal for today.
I will say, ever since I gave him the syringe last night,
he's been at least a little bit interested
in even like, me feeding him at all.
Before, he was just not even, not trying, not interested,
he would only cry, not attempting to latch, nothing.
And he's still not latching at all,
but he'll at least accept my nipple being near him
instead of just yelling at me for it.
(giggles) So we're working on it.
- Alright, it's almost 9:30,
and this little guy is getting a blood sugar test.
The doctor said that he seemed a little jittery
so he just wanted to check it.
So they gave him some like sugary stuff
on the side of his cheek which he absorbs
and then they test is blood afterward
and see how he handles that sugar.
And he actually latched onto Jessica a little bit
just a second ago, which is pretty exciting.
He did a few of the feeding actions
that we've been looking for,
so we're really hopeful for the rest of the day,
hopefully he develops a habit of eating from Jessica.
And if not, we're pumping
and we'll get him his nutrients somehow.
We're really trying to get him
to take to breastfeeding, and-
(Luke crying)
Oh!
But he's doing pretty good, he's doing pretty good.
Alright, this guy is officially one day old.
He hit the 24 hour mark and he is sleeping.
So sweet.
You can kinda see, even though I clipped his fingernails
and filed them down, he still got his face a couple times.
I've been trying to keep him wrapped up as much as possible
but every once in a while he sneaks a hand out
and just goes and gets himself.
He's so precious, we love him so much.
I don't think we got the camera out for any of it,
but I should also mention that Erik, Colleen's husband, came
and visited us and he was so awesome;
he picked us up food for lunch
and he held the baby while we ate.
And it was just really great talking to him,
'cause he just had a baby in the last year as well, so
all this is like refreshing memories,
like recent memories for him.
And it was really cool to talk to him about that.
He also brought us this balloon which is super sweet of him.
(pleasant music)
- He's so tiny!
- Can I try holding him?
(pleasant music)
♪ I love ya, tomorrow, you're only a day away ♪
♪ Tomorrow, tomorrow, you're always a day away ♪
(giggling)