As a tribute to my pregnancy with Will, here are a few pix from the pregnancy.
This is me in October.. I was 23 weeks preggo!
This was taken at the end of November... I was 29 weeks preggo.
This is me 38 weeks preggo... quite a belly! :D This was about a week and a half before Will's arrival.
On January 25th, somewhere around 4pm, I started having some regular stomach pains. Since I had just experienced some false contractions (on the 21st) I was reluctant to label these pains as contractions.
Around 4:30pm they started becoming noticeably regular and around 4:50 they became a bit more painful. I was still at work so I got up and walked around, wondering if they would go away, but they didn't.
When I left work around 5:30pm, they were between 8 to 10 minutes apart. Not wanting to get my hopes up, I continued to track them until around 6pm when they started getting more intense. At 6:15pm I decided that they weren't going away and that we should probably head to the hospital.
I called my doctor and left a message and then called the hospital to say we were on our way. Well the hospital said they would rather my contractions be 4-6 minutes apart when I came in, so, reluctantly, I decided to wait a little longer.
Well, about 5 minutes later, my contractions were between 5 and 7 minutes apart and to the point where I was snapping at Bellah and unable to talk and concentrate during the contraction. I told David that we're going to the hospital and this time, I'm just calling my doctor to let her know we are going. (I had called her previously to tell her the hospital wanted us to wait.)
After dropping Bellah off with a friend (thanks Syndee!!), we got to the hospital around 7:30pm... and boy was I in pain!
We walked in, very slowly, and they got me in a room and checked me and I was 5cm... I was not going home. They said we'd be having a baby before midnight. David started sending mass text messages to my Labor/Delivery group list in my phone and was thoroughly enjoying himself when people were thinking it was me texting.
I had to wait for my doctor to get there for my epidural, so around 8:45pm-ish is when I finally got my epidural. This one was different than with Bellah because it was more of a block epidural where I would still have control over my legs. It was very weird and I got a huge burning cramp in my booty when they stuck the needle in, but my contractions were much better after that.
After the epidural, my doctor broke my water and discovered that there was meconium in the waters. To reduce the risk of any further ingestion by Will, they flushed out the uterus with a saline drip. They also decided that instead of being put on my stomach, they would take Will to the side and get a deep suction into his lungs and stomach right after he came out. (Luckily, everything was fine with Will and there were no complications from the meconium.)
Then, around 9:35pm-ish, my doctor had me push twice at which point I had to wait for her to put on her "baby catching gear"... I guess she didn't realize how good of a pusher I was! lol :D
One more push and at 9:47pm, Will Austin Boyd joined our family. A healthy baby boy. Although he was a little bigger than Bellah was (I think she was around 8lbs 9 or 11 oz) he didn't have near as many rolls as she did! :D He was a cutie from the start - we were both smitten!
This is him after they put that gunk on his eyes. The nurses said some of the red on his face was probably bruising because he came out so fast!
And here's our first shot of mommy and son the next morning. :D
And another pix! This is in our recovery room.
And a close up. :D
The labor/delivery nurses were great and the hospital food was pretty good. Will stayed in the room with us and was a good sleeper and eater! It was hard to get any sleep after he was born (we didn't get to our post partum room until around 1am) because all I wanted to do was look at him and hold him. :D
I am working on getting more pix taken of the little man, but adjusting to a new baby takes a lot of work... especially when your older baby has a possibly contagious illness. On Tuesday, Bellah had to be picked up early from school due to a fever. And when it didn't get better the next day (it actually go much worse) we had to take her to the doctor's and were told she definitely has a small ear infection (which is what I thought it was) but that since there would be a new baby coming home, she could have pneumonia or pertussis(which can both be deadly to a new baby) and that until we find out what she has, we would need to do our best to keep Will and Bellah separated.... yeah...
So, unfortunately, because of that complication, Bellah hasn't adjusted to Will's arrival as well as we hoped. She's always been a mamma's girl and when mama is around the baby so much because of feeding and sleeping and all that - it's been difficult for Bellah to understand what's going on and made this transition pretty stressful. We finally go the results back from the Pertussis test today (after over a week) and she doesn't have that nor did she have pneumonia.
What a week!!
So, here are some pictures of the little guy from his first days at home.
This is on our bed (we were washing the sheets since they needed to be washed!)
All snuggly warm. :D
Here's a pix of him in his crib... :D
And another...
And one of him in his paupsaun... he hasn't quite developed a like for this piece of equipment yet. :D
And another pix. :D
Hopefully now that I'm not working for the next few months, I can update the blog more often.. though I would bet on that just yet. :D
So, we finally have our newest member in our family and David's parents finally have a grandson! :D Happy days!
Stay tuned for more adventures in parenting! :D
