Today was a very special day, we blessed Atticus at church and it was my first mothers day! Talk about a double whammy!
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10 Days
Atticus is 10 days old today and so had a check-up. We spent most of the day out running errands.
We got up at 6am, and were out the door by 6:30 heading to the US Embassy to get his passport done. We had been preparing for this since October, gathering the documents we would need to get it done. When we arrived today they only needed a couple documents and we were in and out in about 45 min. It felt good to get this finished!
We returned home for a short amount of time and then it was off again this time to the doctors. At the hospital they have a really good Indian food place that we ate at (one of the few meals I didn’t take pictures of :/ maybe next time).
We then headed to my Dr’s appointment. We were an hour early but they had us in within 15 min, the other times we had appointments we showed up 20-30 min early and it took them at least an hour to get us in?.
Up next was Atticus’ appointment, Thienchai carried Atticus all the way from the 2nd floor to the 4th floor, if you know him you know this is quite a feat. He generally doesn’t do anything physical. Once we found the doctors office we had to wait about a half hour, but again we were about an hour and a half early. Waiting was good though because we were able to feed Atticus. He took his first bottle! And he ate about 3 oz which sound like a lot to me for a 10 day old. He also had gained .77 lbs since birth, not including what he gained back from what he lost after birth. 
On the way home it was raining so hard you could barely see the buildings on the far side of the highway.
Once we made it home Alex and Atticus we tuckered out and took a nap together.
One week
On Friday Atticus turned one week. What a week it was, made up of little moments to cherish forever.
Like the first time we saw him and Alex told me it was a boy!
Coming out of the recovery room and seeing my mother in law sleeping but waiting for me. She had driven us to the hospital and probably was only going on a few hours of sleep herself.
Getting to my room and having Alex, Thienchai and Alaina waiting. Seeing the pictures they had taken of him in the nursery.
Finally at 11 pm getting to hold and nurse my baby.
Over the next few days falling asleep when I nursed. We had a “training” meeting on how to wash your baby and I could not stay awake through it.
When the family came back the next day seeing their joy of getting to hold their first grand baby. (Thienchai
4 hospital visits later
The search for a doctor has not been the funest thing in the world. We started with a doctor that was close to the house. She was at a newer hospital very clean and people were nice but they didn’t really speak English so I wasn’t really comfortable with it. Though Alex said she was willing to do it our way.
The second hospital we didn’t meet with a doctor just took a tour of the hospital. But they didn’t seem willing to do things our way they seemed to have their procedures and weren’t willing to stray from that. So we didn’t meet with a doctor.
The third place was really nice we liked the doctor liked the hospital. One thing against it is it is down town so if there were traffic it could take 2 hours to get to it. And then later a I was looking at there price booklet and besides being more than double what the other hospitals were if we had the baby between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am it would be an extra $800. So we were on the hunt again.
The last hospital we have looked at is close to the house (took us 20 min to get home). The doctor was hard for me to understand but he was kind of funny. He didn’t seem worried about my blood type like all the other hospitals were. And he seemed willing to do things our way. We weren’t able to take a hospital tour because they didn’t have any open rooms. But for now we are taking planning on using this hospital. I did see lots of babies at the hospital so hopefully it is a good sign.