Lovely and White: Introducing Quinn Colm White

Quinn's first smile caught on camera

We are finally parents, the emotions that come along with all of this for us is just overwhelming in the best possible way! Thank you to all the wonderful family and friends who have called, stopped by, written notes and sent mail. We decided to keep most of Baby boy Quinn stuff limited to this blog, we might post a picture here and there on Facebook or Instagram but for the most part we are keeping it contained here. Our excitement is pretty high and I worry if I posted as many pictures as I took in a day you would see at least 3 a day. I will do our best to keep this blog up to date but if you ever need a fix send me or Brendan a text and we will send you pics. A lot of you have been asking us about the whole experience so I thought I would devote this blog to the whole last two weeks or so.

We had Quinn at Lone Peak hospital and we were completely blown away by how nice of a hospital it is and how wonderful the staff and nurses are there. Our labor and delivery were very routine, which we were immensely grateful for. I had Brendan, both our Moms and my doula Jessica there to help guide me along. At 6:20pm Quinn Colm White was born 7.1 lbs, 20.5 long. He is and was perfect for us. He was born on a full moon and that became very apparent at the hospital where two other labor and deliveries did not go so smooth and babies were life flighted out of there. It was pretty scary and makes you so grateful for a routine labor and delivery. We had picked out his name Quinn awhile back, Brendan has a cousin named Quinn and we both really liked the name a lot. Colm (pronounced like a column) is Irish and is after one of our favorite Irish relatives Colm Agnew who we visited after we got married. He passed all of his tests at the hospital and we were told to see our pediatrician for an additional appointment on Monday. His bilirubin was slightly high but not enough to be concerned about. We were released Friday morning and headed home. Our other fur babies Oscar puppy and Bjorn kitty were surprisingly very welcoming and not too concerned about the newest member of our family.

Prior to giving birth

Here he is :)

Coming home for the first time

Our first weekend home we had a lot of help between the two Moms to help with late nights for Quinn. I was trying to breastfeed but I was having a lot of issues, this became kind of apparent when our newborn seemed to have a "vigorous" personality. We just thought it would resolve itself and everything would work out. Monday morning we went to our pediatrician appointment and started asking the doctor a million questions like I am sure all new parents do. He was concerned about Quinn and how much he was eating and he had a slight orange hue (he was not too oompa loompa looking at this point). He said he would call us later with the results and if it was not too bad we might have to do light therapy at home. That afternoon we got a frantic call from the doctor telling us we needed to go to the children's hospital immediately. Quinn's levels were way too high in the critical zone and needed to be taken care of. We were obviously terrified and confused because he was not orange looking and really didn't seem to be fatigued until we were checked into the hospital. Primary children's took great care of us again and we had a rough night with Quinn being under the lights for most of the night. I cried and felt terrible as a new Mom that we were mostly in this situation from my goal of breastfeeding and I didn't feed my baby enough. We are now a formula baby and getting happy and fat.

Grandma White and Grandma Brecke

Our first bath in our shark robe

With Daddy at Primary Childrens

Under the lights :(

The next day

We got out of the hospital Tuesday afternoon and had a followup appointment on Wednesday. Quinn is now doing great and there are no more issues with any of this. Thursday was technically our first full day home with all three of us. It was nice Brendan was able to be with me through all of this, I was a basket case. We have now all adjusted and are loving life with a very sleepy, happy newborn baby boy. Brendan went back to work today and we are adjusting and loving life as our new family.