Will is going to be 15 weeks tomorrow. I keep losing track and having to count all over again. It doesn't seem possible that he's already going to be 15 weeks! He'll be a 4 month old so soon, when he only just turned 3 months. It's going so fast.
Watching Will grow up makes me sure that I wouldn't want to stop having kids yet. Bill and I were looking at Will and Katie play last night and noting how much Will can do now. We both agreed that we'd be really depressed if he was our last one. We're definitely not ready for a baby's firsts to be our lasts yet. We have two amazing kids, but we don't feel complete as a family yet.
I have started looking into options for the next baby awhile, as I know it's going to take me a long time to decide. I've been talking with some women who have delivered their babies at the Lehigh hospital, instead of the hospital I've been delivering at, which I really hate. All of them have glowing reviews of that hospital, very similar to my own from when we were there with Will for his RSV. Some talked about how their doctors really worked with them to give them the birth they wanted. I think I'm going to look into the local OBGYN practices who deliver at LVH and see if I like the idea of going with them better. I'm tired of midwives being so overworked that they go home to sleep instead of staying with you while giving birth. I'm tired of waiting for over an hour in the waiting room each time because there's just so many patients and not enough midwives. I'm tired of feeling like I barely knew the midwives, who are quickly becoming medwives, and I'm tired of never getting my birth center birth and ending up in a hospital I hate. If I'm going to be in a hospital to deliver, then it might as well be a quality hospital with doctors and nurses who are much better than Reading's. With both Will and Katie, it felt like the hospital was trying to keep us held hostage. We had to fight to leave, fight to have things done our way, it was difficult the entire time. When I was at LVH with Will for his RSV though, the doctors asked me every time what I was comfortable with before ordering anything. They asked me if I felt okay with being discharged or if I wanted to stay. Before ordering any procedures, they talked to me and asked if I felt like they were a good idea or if I had anything I wanted done. I looked like an overly tired, emotional young mom and instead of taking advantage of that and telling me that they were going to do whatever they wanted to do like Reading would have, they made sure to have me be apart of everything and accomidate me. Everything they did was explained thoroughly. I want that for my birth. While I'm hesitant to leave the birth center for a few reasons, I know that I do not want to end up in Reading again. It's a lot to consider and think over.
Back to Will, he has barely a trace of infancy left in him. He now does crunches to try and sit himself up from a lying position. If I am standing next to the swing that he wants out of, he'll start using his arms and arching his back to get himself out. He loves his hands, and is getting quite good at using them instead of accidently stabbing himself in the eye all the time. He enjoys a lot of things now, from toys to Katie's tv shows.
His hair is growing a lot on top. He currently has this mohawk thing happening right now, as the sides of his head doesn't have hair that grows as fast (Katie's was the same) but the hair on top is super fuzzy and growing twice the length.
The last few nights he's been sleeping better. Sometimes he's swaddled, other times he's just cuddled up into me. But he's been sleeping longer, which makes me feel so much better. His naps are spread out a bit further now, and he gets bored quicker though
He's also officially in size 6-9 clothing. I had to go dig out the outfits from the basement in that size - which there's not enough of. In both length and width, he won't fit in anything under 6 months now. He does fit in some 9-12 month clothing as well. I fear that he won't be lasting very long in his size 3 diapers and will soon be in size 4. He's such a chunker!
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