Malachi's Birthday

Malachi Jacob Tinajero joined our family this past week.

March 12, 2013 at 7:08pm

7 lbs 4oz

19.5 inches

The delivery was quick with no complications.

We're so happy to have such a sweet spirit join our family.

His entire face was bruised.

Just after getting all washed up.

Here is Levi holding Malachi for the first time. Levi had been a little sick so Malachi is few days old here.

Malachi slept all day long for the first few days and even had to be woken to eat. We finally caught a picture with his eyes open.

Love my boys!!

Already found his fingers!

Levi is adjusting to having someone to share the attention with. 

My parents came to help me with the new babe! So glad they were here to help.

Malachi is such a good baby. The only time he ever cries is when he's hungry. He eats well. His weight dropped down to 6 lbs 10 oz when we left the hospital and today he weighed 7 lbs 6 oz, surpassing his birthweight at just 6 days old.

He sleeps well at night, waking about every 2.5-3 hours to eat.

We've been blessed with such a healthy baby. Our only concern is that he failed his hearing screening in his right ear. We'll have it checked again in a week or two. We've been told it could just be mucous or gunk in his ear so not to worry too much.

Malachi's Birth Story:

I had a Dr appointment on the 11th and hadn't dilated any more than I had already been for two weeks. That was a bit discouraging. My parents had driven out to Missouri to help with the new babe and had been here for almost a week already so I felt like I needed to do something to get this babe here. I did not want to be put on pitocin and induced so I opted for a jump-start into labor. I had two rounds of the medicine Cytotec. It was put on my cervix to help soften it and help me progress into labor more naturally than pitocin would. I was also told the Cytotec would not do anything unless I was close to going into labor anyway. So I had one dose of Cytotec on the 11th and I could tell my contractions were more intense after, not painful, but stronger. I had another dose the next morning (the 12th). I was sent home that morning  dilated to a 5 being told I would probably go into labor by the the next day. Throughout the day of the 12th my contractions increased in intensity and beame painful. By 3:00 that afternoon I was way uncomfortable and had to start breathing through contractions which were 3 min apart. Adrian went to play racquetball at 4:00 and by the time he got home at 5:00 we headed out the door to the hospital.

I was checked in and dilated to an 8 when I arrived. My contractions were painful, but I was able to breathe through them and felt totally pain free in between.  I had an intrathecal for anesthesia at 6:00. The anesthesia made the contractions completely pain free and I still had total control and movement of my legs, it was great. Malachi was headdown but turned to my right. The Dr tried to manually turn him, but his heartrate dropped so the doc had me lay on my right side for about 20 min with an oxygen mask on. I all of a sudden felt a ton of pressure in my bottom indicating Malachi had turned and I was ready to push. I pushed about 5 times max and he was here at 7:08 pm!! It was such a good experience. Everyone in the delivery room was talking and joking the whole time. I was not exhausted at all like I was with Levi, it was just so fast.