You don't screw with a new mom

You just don't do it. You just don't. You don't fuck with a hormonal woman whose just given birth. It's just wrong. A nurse should know better. Can I just say, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Ok, I'm better now. Let me explain.

On Saturday morning we were supposed to leave the hospital. The nurse came in to take the baby and give him one last check over. She didn't come back and she didn't come back, an entire hour went by. I pushed the button and asked the nurse when they were bringing Harrison back and they said, we'll check and let you know. Forty minutes goes by. Somewhere in there, Logan shows up to get us. We wait and I wonder what's taking so long. After a while, I send Logan to go and see what's up. They send a nurse back in with him and start asking all of these questions about our family's blood. Is there any hemophiliacs in our family, any blood disorders of any kind, have I been on blood thinners and didn't tell them? I answered their questions and then promptly lost my shit. I just couldn't deal with it. With everything we've been through in the past year, the thought of something being seriously wrong with this perfect newborn was just too much. So I sobbed and sobbed and yelled at the nurse and yelled at my husband. Then I demanded to talk to the doctor. Come to find out, they hadn't called a doctor to look at him. They were basing it all on the fact that he was bleeding still because of the circumcision.

I told them I wanted my son in my room immediately and a doctor called now and if they didn't do it, I'd sue their asses off. Not exactly sure what I could have sued them for, but it was the only thing I could think of in the moment. Within two minutes, Harrison was in my arms and a doctor had shown up. My doctor in fact, who was there, having just delivered another baby. She takes one look at me and asks the nurses to leave the room.

I take back everything I ever said about this Doctor and her not wanting to induce. She is amazing. She sat on the bed and hugged me for a few minutes, whispering tiny nice things to me and Harrison. Then she examined him. He was bleeding a tiny bit from the circumcision, but not bad at all. She said, sometimes in there beginning if there isn't enough Vaseline on him, it will rub on the diaper and bleed. Also, she said, sometimes the vitamin K shot takes a bit longer to work and possibly he didn't get all of it, because he was really squirmy when they given it to him. So she gave him another small shot of it. Which stopped bleeding in less than a minute.

They freaked me out for nothing. Which sucks, but I'm so glad there was nothing wrong with him. I couldn't handle anything being wrong with him.

In other news, my son is perfect. I dread saying it out loud, because then it might change, but he is perfect. I am so in love with him, that I can't even explain it. We all adore him. He sleeps and eats and when he's awake, he's very aware. He is a cuddler, but if you put him down (which doesn't happen a ton) he is perfectly content. He doesn't seem to mind his noisy sisters. When he is awake and in the room with them, he follows them with his eyes. He eats like a champ and when he wakes up at night to eat, he goes right back to sleep. He's definitely a keeper.

So now, please excuse me, because I have to go and stare at and kiss my son.