Baby Peter is a week old!

Baby Peter was finally born on July 8! Stay tuned for our birth story, but as he’s officially a week old, I wanted to share some details of this first week with him.

In this past week we have fallen in love with this little angel. He is the sweetest thing in the whole world, and Carter and I find ourselves just staring at him all the time. I am often in awe with the miracle of Peter’s life. Just last night I commented to Carter how amazing it is. That through our love for each other and with God’s help we created this life.That he has been cooking inside of me for 9 whole months and is suddenly this living, breathing, beautiful human.

I am absolutely amazed.

Carter and I are so filled with wonder, awe, and humility that we have been blessed to parent this little life.

We are both convinced that Peter is the most beautiful baby we have ever seen. (I’m not sure if it’s just the classic parent syndrome or if we’re really just that lucky 😉 ).

Peter has the sweetest, gentlest cry. You feel bad for thinking so, but he is so cute when he cries. He has that adorable baby smell. Sometimes while he is breastfeeding he’ll open up his eyes and peer up at me from the corner of his eye. These are the most tender moments as I am able to connect with our little one. Sometimes he gets so excited about eating that he sucks rapidly and lets out the loudest gulps and tiny baby sighs. When he drinks himself to sleep, sometimes I’ll roll him off my breast to see his cheek glistening with warm milk. He’ll have the most content, relaxed expression. Eyes closed, mouth hanging open with the edges curled up in the slightest smile.

He has been nursing like a campion. Every poopy and wet diaper makes us such happy, proud parents! I never thought I’d see Carter so happy to change poopy diapers.

Carter is the sweetest daddy I could hope for for our children. He has loved Peter in this week of life more than any human could love another. He will take any chance he can to snuggle his “bitty boy”. Carter has been more than willing to take his “shift” at night.

Up until Saturday night, Peter would not sleep unless he was being held and snuggled. This made it very difficult for us to do what everyone recommends and “sleep while baby sleeps”. Carter patiently stayed up until 4 or 5 in the morning, feeding Peter milk I had pumped or waking me up only to feed him. Come morning, Carter would take Peter for more snuggles so I could get a few more hours of sleep.

Today was Carter’s first day back to work. Last night, Peter woke up just as we were ready to go to bed. I was trying to feed him quietly so that Carter could get to sleep.

“Do you want me to hold him while you get situated?”

“No, you can go to sleep”

“Well why don’t I hold him while you grab his pajamas?”

After turning him down several times, Carter finally said, “Can I just hold him??”

Carter loves his little boy.

This morning Carter hurried to gather his things for work so he could get some snuggles in before heading out. He had been at work less than 2 hours when he asked me to send some photos, saying that he missed his babe.

I feel so blessed to have the husband that I have.

We were talking to our neighbors whose baby is about 3 months old. Asking us how the first week had been, our neighbor made the comment that “the first week is like hell”.

Sure we are exhausted, sleep deprived, and our home is a mess. But this first week has been a piece of heaven on earth. We feel such joy when we look at our baby boy. We are so grateful and so blessed to have him.

We’re sure that this new adventure of parenthood will have its roller coasters. It has already had its sleepless nights. But we are so in love with this life God has sent us.