The Kosinski Kids: Baby Kosinski

On February 17th at 2:08pm, we welcomed Liam onto our family!
He was 6 lbs. 14 0z. and was 20 inches long.

Today he is 1 week old and Sean and I are absolutely amazed by this little person and we just can't stop looking at his precious face.

We are so blessed to have such a healthy, happy boy.

Labor and delivery was better then I expected. I had mild contractions that started on Monday night. I was timing them while I watched "The Bachelor" they were about 5-10 minutes apart but bearable, I had to watch my show first! - we finally went to the hospital at Midnight to get checked and determine if I was really ready to have this baby or not. To my surprise, I was dilated at 5 - I had a scheduled induction for Monday, 2/23 and was told by my doctor to expect to get induced and that is was highly unlikely I would go into labor before. Made it thought through the night without an epidural but got it in the morning and had my water broke at about 9am. I dilated from 5 to 10 by 1pm then pushed for one hour.

We got home from the hospital on Thursday afternoon and spent most of the day worrying that he was not getting enough to eat and just trying to get through the day since we were both so sleep deprived from the hospital stay. He had his first doctor appointment on Friday and the doctor recommended that we supplement a little formula since his weight had dropped to 6.2 oz. It is normal for newborns to loose up to 10% of their weight in the first few days but they should be back at birth weight when they are 2 weeks old. So, we reluctantly gave him a little formula on Friday and I was able to start nursing him on Friday night. He was much happier with mama's milk and to the doctors surprise, he was back to his birth weight as of yesterday!

We are enjoying our time off with our new son and are looking forward to this weekend since Nana and Papa Kosinski are coming to visit! I never thought I would say this but Sean and I are actually a little board at times, especially while the baby is sleeping! I think we are just ready to take him out into the world and start to do things together as family.

Thanks to all our family and friends for the warm wishes and enjoy the pics!