Best Week Ever

Carter is now a week old. We are still just loving every minute and maybe a little tired too. Here are some pictures from the last week. He is starting to grow out of some of his premie clothes and starting to fit his newborn outfits. Grandma Jorgensen has been here since Monday with us.









There is a funny little story with these flowers…On Monday a nice delivery man came to our door and had me sign a slip saying they had been delivered. I signed the yellow copy and the pink copy was stapled to these nice flowers. I signed my name and was just awing at the wrapping paper with curiosity of who they came from and what they look like when I noticed the copy stapled to the flowers read “Hazel Atkissoon”. So I ran down the stairs, but the delivery van didn’t see me as it drove away. Within an hour, I got this call from a little old lady asking, “Is this the flower shop?” I replied, “No, but is this Hazel Atkissoon.” Turns out I had her flowers and she had mine. She lives just about a mile away from me and she told me how to get to her house for the exchange. She was the cutest old lady celebrating a birthday. It was nice to meet her, but mostly I was glad to have the right flowers and the sweet turtle for our little guy. The flowers were from the Special Ed. Staff at my school. It totally made my day!

He is home!

We are so lucky to be able to bring home our little 4 pound baby. He had to pass the car seat challenge today. It sounded like something from the amazing race, but it was a test to make sure he could maintain his heart rate, respirations, and oxygen saturation while strapped in a car seat for 90 minutes straight. We only had to start over 1 time and then he passed. The sweet little thing sat in there a long time today. He was really worn out from all the excitement.


We just melt when he looks at us and think he is the most precious baby EVER.


This is his newborn outfit drowning him. We had to have something to take him home in. This was the only newborn outfit we had washed when we got the opportunity to get our little guy here early.




Jason's hand gives you a little perspective of how "iddy biddy" (as Natalie calls it) he is.

He is here! It's a Boy!

Carter Jason Jorgensen
Born: March 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Weight: 4 lbs 12 oz
Height: 19 inches

The Details

One ordinary St. Patrick's day, we got a call from our doctor's office to call and get results about the ultrasound that we had on Monday. My belly measured small so they took closer look. After work on Tuesday, I called our doctor and they told me to go to the hospital with the option to have a c-section or to be induced with about a 75% chance of ending up with a c-section. The smaller babies don't tend to tolerate labor as well, so that is why so many end up with c-sections. The doctors hypothesized that my placenta had given him its all and he needed to be born to grow and get nourished. We checked in the hopsital and knew right where to go since we took a tour on Sunday thinking that was well in advance. It was in advance none the less. We opted to be induced and got a hormone to ripen my cervix Tuesday night and Pitocin in the moring on Wednesday. After all that, by 7:00 Wednesday night, I was only dialated to 3 centimeters. Our doctor again offered us to choose a c-section at that point to or she would give us 1 more hour. (We had Dr. Stas. Several of our friends out here will know who that is because several of our ward members go to the same OB-GYN group) We had our home teacher, who is so extra faithful planning on coming at 7:45 before we knew we had the 8:00 cut-off point. It couldn't have been timed better. Jason and Tyler Horner, our home teacher, gave me a blessing at like 7:50 ish. Right after Tyler left the doctor came and said, "Here's the moment of truth." I made it to 6 centimeters! We were all glad (the doctor and us of course). By 9:00 when they check again, he was on his way and I started pushing and he arrived at 9:37. He did so well tolerating the labor. The hospital staff was so great. They had 2 Neonatologists and a NICU nurse as well as all the other regular nursing staff at his birth. They were so ready for him. He passed all of his tests including showing he was a good sucker with a bottle and his blood sugar stayed well above where he had to to stay without being sent to the NICU. They don't let little friends go without food because they don't have the fat reserves. The test he wasn't passing was maintaining his temperature. On the 3rd check, he was going to go to the NICU if he didn't maintain. By that point his temperature was high, so he got to stay with us. He passed in the nick of time. They continued to check his temperature and he has done really well. He just has a hood and 2 blanket policy. If you unwrap him, he starts shaking immediately. All the nurses keep saying how they never have 4 lb babies on this floor (the normal post-partum floor) and how small he is. The few times he has gone to the nursery, we always find the nurses holding him and the other babies in their beds.

We love having him and are very attached. We are so grateful he is doing so well and for all the love, support and prayers of so many friends and family. One amazing detail, my parents are in another continent. They are currently on vacation in Brazil and Argentina. We have been able to talk to them since Jason's parents contacted them for us. He squeeks at the ends of his cries which is quite comical.

Baby Shower!

We have been so lucky and LOVED! My work did a baby shower and gave us all sorts of really great stuff including a Baby Bjorn, playmat, Bumbo, bouncer, bathing systems, etc. A girl who is over the social committee makes these "cakes" out of diapers. I loved it!

New Beds for Everyone!

This is baby's view of us sleeping on our new pillow top mattress. It is about 6 inches taller (pure pillowly greatness) than our last mattress. The first time I tried getting in was comical and I made Jason help me. That method would not work for all my pit stops in the night, so I figured out that I could really get in it by myself. We have been basking in our zzzzzz's before baby comes.


This is our view of baby from our bed.


This is baby's new crib.


This is baby's new mattress in his crib. We don't own any bedding yet, but we still have 4 weeks and my next 15% off coupons don't start until the 27th.


That little kid seems to have it all and he's not even born yet. This is his second sleeping option, but I guess that is the bulk of his life for the first little while. We hope he's going to be a good sleeper anyway.

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