Luke's Baby Blessing

From Luke

We know it's been over a month since we have posted an entry in hear. Adding Luke to our life has really made things pretty crazy. Shelley has been tending to him all during the day and when Robert gets home, that's all he wants to do is spend time with Luke.

Since today was Luke's baby blessing, we decided that it was time to repent of our ways and add an entry. It was a really good day today. We had lots of family visit and there were 10 men in the blessing circle (we didn't get our bishop in the picture). We are grateful for all of the family that was able to make it.



We had a luncheon afterward at Shelley's parents. We all had a good time, although much of the family had to leave early to get home.

Getting used to home

Well, we have been back home for a week now. We have started a new routine now having Luke home with us.

Robert started back to work last Tuesday. He has felt the separation anxiety and returns home as soon as possible. We haven't really gone out much the whole week. We have just stayed home with Luke. That's what we have been content with so far.

From Luke

Shelley has been staying home every day so far. She returns to work on June 9. Since Robert is now working and Shelley isn't, Shelley has been doing most of the nightly feedings and diaper changes for Luke. Robert is very appreciative of that so that he is not so groggy at work. Robert does try to do his share of taking care of Luke in the evenings, however.

Shelley and Luke are Home

From Fletcher Baby

Well, we are all finally home now. After several days of pain and non-solids, Shelley is finally able to eat normally and take pain medication orally. She was able to leave the hospital at 2:00 today. Our pediatrician said that Luke could go home any time, so once Shelley was released, we all went home today.

We all went over to Grandma and Grandpa Matthew's for dinner tonight. Luke's cousins were really excited to see him. Shelley's brother, Blaine, had a baby boy 3 weeks ago. We got some pictures with them together.


We will be taking Luke to the doctor tomorrow for a newborn checkup. Shelley will need a checkup with her OB this week sometime. However, life is starting to get back to normal again, if there ever was a normal.

Luke Alan Fletcher

From Fletcher Baby

We have given our boy a name. "Luke Alan Fletcher" has been at the top of our list for a while, but didn't want to officially give him the name until he was born. We think Luke fits him well.

Before anyone starts asking him to use the force, may we remind you that we took the name from the Bible, not from any movies, if there are any, we remember from our childhood. However, we still think the force is strong in this one.

We have a son

From Fletcher Baby

After some progress, but very little, things did not go as planned for a standard delivery. At about 7:30 PM the Dr. on shift asked if we were OK with a C-Section. We decided it was for the best.



Baby Fletcher born Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 9:05 PM. He was 8 lbs. 14 oz. and 23 1/2 inches long.

Tax Baby Coming

Well, we've been here at the Banner Desert hospital for about 26 hours now. This has been a long process, but there is finally a light, (however faint), at the end of the tunnel. If the rest of today continues as it started, we should have a new arival to our family in the early evening today.



We started by having an appointment to come here for an inuction at noon yesterday (April 14). We were checked in before 12:30. They started inducing at about 3:30 yesterday afternoon. They didn't expect her to go into labor for about 12 hours. She went into labor at about 3:00 this morning and had an epidural at about 4:30. They broke her water at about 9:45, and things are steadily, but slowly progressing.

As stated in our previous post. We have a web album specifically for our baby. Hopefully Robert will be able to periodically post pictures of the baby as he gets a few. The link again to the album is:

http://picasaweb.google.com/robertfletcher65/FletcherBaby#

We're Getting Close

We know, we know. It has been over a month since we have created a new post here. As we go week by week, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of changes, but when we look back a few weeks, we realize how much has changed. Shelley is getting very large and less mobile. Tiger is getting in her way with almost anything she does. She asks Robert to pick up anything she drops, even if he is a couple of rooms away. Robert is feeling sympathy pangs by gaining some weight himself, except he's not going to lose it as quickly when delivery comes.

We are now going to the Dr. Office twice a week. Both times, Shelley has a non-stress test taken on tiger. On Fridays, in addition to the non-stress test, Shelley is having an ultrasound taken and a Dr. or NP visit. We are including a picture from the last ultrasound in this post.



OK, now we're going to post a picture of our Nursery the way it is now. Not a lot of changes have been made in the past month, but there are a few. Let's see if anyone can find any differences. We will post the picture we took a month ago first and then the one we took this morning:








We'll be sure to update this blog as much as we can during delivery. We'll post 1 or 2 baby pictures here, but most of them will be on our picasa web album. The link you can use to get to our baby album is blow:

Fletcher Baby