Nurse Visit

We did not get it posted yesterday, but Will had a nurse from Christus Santa Rosa come by the house to visit yesterday. The service that the hospital has provided has been incredible! It was a routine visit in which she just visited with Bridget and looked at Will. The biggest things were that Will has gained weight since birth, he weighed 8 lbs 4 oz. She also took the little clamp off of his umbilical cord. The nurse said that Bridget was doing a great job! We will post some more pictures later. We have had lots of visitors lately and we greatly appreciate that. It is so much fun for me to get to show Will off. Again, thank you all for all the help and support.

Will's day out

Will had his first big outing today.  Mom, Will and Nana went to Babies R Us in The Forum to get a few things...he did great!  Slept the whole time; got home and ate, then went back to sleep.   It was really nice to be out-and-about on such a beautiful day!

Hanging With The Girls

Well I had to go back to work today. It was good to see everybody at work, but boy has it been so nice getting to be home with Bridget and Will. We are extremely grateful that everybody at work made it possible for us to have almost a week of quality family time. Bridget's mom drove down to spend the day with her since I was gone and I think she was able to rest a little since she could trust her mom to take care of Will. I think she still is not quite sure about me watching over him. She is such a good mom, we have learned so much in such short period of time! She is feeling a lot better today. Will had another bath and enjoyed every minute of it. We have really enjoyed all of your comments to the posts. I hope all of you are well.

Miracle

It truly is amazing less than 9 months ago what is now a beautiful young boy that is in my wife's arms tonight came from this! Life will resume somewhat for me tomorrow. Even though I regret that I will not be able to be with Will all day I know that Bridget will do a great job with him and it brings me great comfort that our family and friends are so very helpful.

Everybody Loves Bath Time

Will got his second bath last night, he seems to enjoy watching/listening to the water in the sink. He seemed refreshed and happy after the sponge bath, so much so he wanted to stay up until around midnight! Bridget let me sleep most of the night and she says she got some sleep. She is feeling better today than yesterday. Evening visitors are hard for her, but it is great to have company through the day. The Kehoes came over this morning and saw Will, it was great to see them! The Voelzels are also coming by sometime today. Grandma and Grandpa Symm and hopefully Uncle Danny are coming over to visit later today. Again, thank you all for the love and support, we are supremely blessed.

Will's Boys

What a motley bunch Will's grandpas and Uncle Danny make! Again, we can't tell y'all enough how much it meant for each of you to be with us Tuesday to welcome Will into the world. Bridget and Will are napping and I am watching a little college football. Can you believe Tech, 63-21 over Kansas? Looks like Tech is going to win the Big 12 because there is no doubt in my mind that the high school team we have over in College Station is going to spoil t.u.!

Daytime is good

So far, Will has fallen into a schedule that works for him and we are adjusting to. He did great all day yesterday, but he still is not really interested in going to sleep until about 11:30-12:00 am. However, he has been sleeping until about 3:30 am. He then wants to nurse, be changed and then go back to sleep. It seems like with time we can get adjusted to this easy enough. The biggest thing right now is that Bridget is engorged and really sore. She really does seem to have TONS of milk, even though she is expressing regularly as well. Will was weighed yesterday at the lactation consultant and he actually had not lost an appreciable amount of weight. When we left the hospital he was 7 lbs 9 oz, while yesterday he was 7 lbs 8 1/2 oz. Last night Doyle, Katy and Kyle came over for diner and Ian stopped by on his way to go hunting and spent the night. Understandingly due to her engorgement, Will felt more up to socializing than Bridget did. The goal for today, as Cindy the nurse would say, is REST, ice and frequent nursing! If anybody has any good tips let us know. He really seems to like his bouncy/swing seats that Bridget's cousin gave him. Do you think Ian is ready for fatherhood? Check out the 4:00 am picture below.

First Outing

All is great today! We had our first outing. Bridget is dealing with huge you know whats for the first time in her life and they are really sore. We went and saw the lactation consultant so that she could get a pump. Naturally I wanted to go so that I could see how it worked and also wanted to put Will into the space age car seat. He was great, he did not cry even once! Doyle and Katy are coming over for diner tonight. We also plan to walk him down to the mail box for the first time in his stroller! The collage is a collection of pictures from Tuesday and Wednesday, enjoy!

First 48 hours

We went in to the Cristus Santa Rosa Hospital at 5:00 am on the morning of 10/21/08. Bridget was calm as a clam and I was as nervous as usual. The nurses (Cindy & Anna were awesome) got Bridget hooked up to IVs and they started the pain train around 6:30am. All went very well until the contractions were too strong and way too close so Bridget requested an epidural (about 4 hours later than I would have!). From then on Bridget was able to rest and get ready for the HUGE finale. William Scott was born at 5:59 pm surrounded by the wonderful hospital nursing staff, Dr. Gilderneck and his two proud and terrified parents. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. We were surrounded by our wonderfully supportive family and they were so patient to let us go through everything on our own.

We spent a long night in the hospital trying to figure out what to do with our new addition. We learned all sorts of super valuable tips on how to take care of Will. He was so good! He nursed great almost immediately. We were able to actually get a little sleep over the night, but certainly were not what you would call rested. We kind of made the decision that we were going to bust free as soon as they said we could that night and sure enough the next morning we got word that as long as everything checked out for Will and Bridget we could leave later Wednesday. Dr. Snyder examined Will, circumsized him and told us that everything was a ok and that we could leave. We packed our gear and headed out of the hospital around 4:30 pm on 10/22/08. Will was home ruling the roost right at 24 hours after being born!

The first night at home was great! Will was fantastic and ate, slept and dirtied diapers all night. He really did good and let Bridget and I get almost 5 hours of sleep, all added together of course. We woke up refreshed and charged for a full day home at last with our baby boy! The day was great and followed more of the same as the night before. Nana came down to bring him a different bed to sleep in because the pack and play made it hard for Bridget to watch Will during the night. After Joyce left Will took a long nap. Tonight we plan to give him his first bath!

We truly appreciate all the love and support that we have received from our many friends and family. We love all you and are so happy that we can share this time with you all!