Jack and Ella

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Life with 2 babies

Here is a few pictures to share with you, a look into the daily going on's in the Smith family. Neither one of them has slept through the night for weeks now, Ella is getting her big teeth in and Jack is just an eating machine, but life goes on, if we survive the next few years anything is possible!
here it is!
1am Ella is up with sore teeth-Ben
2am feed Jack-Michelle
2.30am sooth Ella again-Ben
5am feed Jack-Michelle
6am Ella is up!-Ben takes her down stair's put on Wonder Pets and sleeps on the couch.
7am, shower, dress, change diapers, feed, dress, pack lunch, in car seats
8am daycare drop off- 1st Coffee!
8.25am train to NYC sleep catch up on emails
9.15 work-more coffee
5.15pm somebody leaves to pick up kids.
6.30pm get Jack from baby room, great kids had a great day, get Ella from toddler room, told she already has a boyfriend and wont let anybody else touch him or her, Hmm!
7pm home dinner for Ella, bath, story, bed for ella 8pm
8pm Jack fed, bath sleep on one of us
9pm dinner for us, Glass of wine, Yum!
10.30pm pack lunch for next day, get bottles ready for night time.
11pm feed Jack agin.
Yes friends it is that glamorus but we would'nt have it any other way ; )
Also special thanks to mum and dad who alway play with them even at 3am!

Jacks surgery in 2 days.

Hi everyone so the big day his here, Jack has his first surgery on Tuesday the 31st of January 2012, It's his Lip Adhesion surgery, which basically is rotating his lips down and joining them in the middle, the surgery only takes 1 1/2 hours, he can't eat for 6 hours before and clear liquid for 2 hours before. his palette surgery is still to be done at one year. Ben already made sure the surgeon (the fantastic Dr Amato) does not have a collage reunion the night before as surgery is at 7.30am. I wanted to post some pictures of his as he looks now, I'll miss his little smile but don't doubt his next one will be just as sweet.

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Jack 8 weeks old

So Jack is now 8 weeks old, he's 22 1/2" and is 12lbs he is in the 50 percentile for weight and height, he's doing great and we have a surgery date. The big day is to be January 31st which puts him around 3 1/2 months.
So far the tape is working really well so were really happy we don't need to do anything else for him. Now we just need to get him sleeping all night : )

Friday, November 25, 2011

Jack update

So Jack is doing great, He is now 5 weeks old and around 10lbs. We saw his plastic surgeon this past week and his lips have not moved further apart which is good news we do not need to use any mouth plates which is great news all we need is a little tape, it's called a Dyna Cleft basically it's just a super band aid, is has a little stretchy band in the middle which will stretch his lips on either side so as he grows it helps the two separated lips grow the right direction to help close the gap, also when he cries it stops the gap stretching to much in the wrong direction. I got a couple of pictures of him with out his tape on as he'll probably have it on now for the news few months. We go again on Monday where our surgeon, Dr Amato, will show us how to change the tape we will also hopefully get a date of the lip surgery which will be late January or early Feb.

Monday, November 7, 2011

2 weeks old

So were 2 weeks in and surviving with the help of my parents (thanks mum and dad!) were getting enough sleep. Ella is doing great with her little brother in the house, she mostly points and says jack, Jack, Jack over and over, when he cries she bring over his bottle with is very cute and rather helpful, she's loving all the visitors we've had and all the new toys!

Jack is doing great he's a eating monster, we were warned that our biggest hurdle at this point would be getting him to eat enough, but we haven't had that problem he would and does eat all day, our little bruiser is 8 lbs so he has surpassed his birth weight by almost a pound, which is great. the Dr's are very happy with him, we go and see the cranial facial department at St Barnebas on Wednesday so hopefully I'll have a lot more news about his cleft lip and palette after that. Here are some picture of them both for now.

Friday, October 21, 2011

Jack is here!

At last here he is, Jack Benjamin Smith was born today 10/20/11 at 7.28am. Weighing in at 7lbs 1 oz he is 19 1/2" long. Were so glad to have our wee peanut as an outside baby.

He's doing really well so far he is a good eater, it does take a long time to feed him but he gets there in the end. His lip luckily has a "Simon arts band" which is a little band of skin under the nose this is good as it means his cleft lip is being held together a little bit and his nose is not pulled to far out, His palette however is a little worse than we thought he actually has 2 holes in his palette the surgeons reassured us that this wasn't a huge problem and will be fixed the same as one hole. So all is good the wee guy was in the NICU for the past 24 hours but only because I had a fever a few hours after birth and they had to make sure he didn't have any infections, but were both completely fine, and it was actually quite good because the level of care he received there was great and the nurses spent extra time with us and him making sure we can feed him and everything else was ok.

Ella's first year!

our first picture day 1

Since were still waiting for the baby to arrive, I'm trying to get myself familiar with this whole blogging business, so were going to do little Ella photo trip through out her first year! Sorry facebook friends most of these pictures are already on there!