On the 8th Day...

We chose not to have Beck circumcised at the hospital. We waited until he was 8 days old. Sound familiar? It's from the Bible. God commanded for the Jews to be circumcised on the 8th day to show they were His people. But why the 8th day? On the 8th day there is a surplus of Vitamin K. It is the day when a baby has the highest amount of Vitamin K it will ever have. Vitamin K makes blood coagulate, or clot, so that a person won't bleed out. This vitamin is necessary if surgery, such as a circumcision, is to be performed; therefore it made sense to us to wait until the 8th day to perform circumcision and forgo the "mandatory" Vitamin K shot that the hospital deems necessary. I'm so amazed at God's design! If you can't see God as the Creator through a birth, you're not looking!

http://www.apologeticspress.org/apcontent.aspx?category=13&article=1118

So on Thursday, April 1st Beck was circumcised by Dr. Blanke. In the days leading up to it I was incredibly nervous and sick to my stomach thinking about the pain he would endure. I'd asked all my friends about their boy's circumcision experiences and had heard all kinds of stories, good and bad. However it turned out that I worried waaay too much! He did great. He pooped and peed on Blanke as he performed the surgery, but as far as pain, Blanke said "his cry didn't change from the time I strapped him down to when I started the procedure." He came back sleeping and nursed as if nothing had happened.
He was also weighed at that appointment. He was 6 lb 4 oz at birth, 5 lb 11 oz at discharge, and weighed a whopping 6 lb 8 oz a week after he was born! Go Beck!! I think we have an eater!