New Arrivals....

  Yup, I had my baby boy! It seemed like he would never come and now that he is here I can't believe it! It's been such a long road to get to this point... It's hard to believe that I went two months without even knowing that I was pregnant. For starters, we found out that we were expecting on "Black Friday" and took about a month to ourselves to enjoy Our little Secret. We went to the doctors on December 10th for a confirmation appointment and again on the 17th for our first appointment. We were told that our due date was June 23rd. The next day we went to Fetal Photos and they measured him and came back with a due date of July 16th. We got extra copies made of one of the pictures that we recieved and on Christmas we used them to inform everyone that we were expecting.
  We were married a few days later on December 28th. After that everything sort of blurrs together. It seemed like one bad appointment after another. The doctor was convinced that the original due date was the date to go by until almost March. At which time I had two ultrasounds where they measured him and came back with July 17th. At the end of my pregnancy they sent me back to get another ultrasound because of some issues and the doctor discovered that I was full term (based off of evidence via placenta), but that my boy was still measuring to be due July 17th, which meant that he was small! They decided that although they could tell that I was already full term, they would wait to induce! He needed the extra time to grow so I would have to wait the month and a half until July 17th before an inducment would be allowed. Of course this was assuming two things: First, my WEEKLY nonstress fetal tests (to see that the placenta is still working, he's growing, and that he's healthy) must ALL go VERY well, along with my maintaining good health; And second, that I don't go into labor naturally on my own before hand. Of course the tests came back well enough week after week and remarkably my blood pressure came back fine every week too and I did NOT go into labor on my own.
  Looking back at my entire pregnancy, I was miserable. I was sick the entire time and had a ton of problems. By the end of the pregnancy I cried before every doctors appointment because they never went well. Suddenly it was all going to be over though because on July 18th they induced me. We went to the hospital at 9AM to be sent home because 4 women showed up before I got there and they were already in labor. We left and went to Jim's then went to his grandparents house. He watched Transformers 2 while I took a 2 hour nap (good thing to since I only recieved 2.5 hoursof sleep the night before) and when I woke up they called us back to the hospital! Labor was long and had it's own issues (like a migraine that hit out of no where that left me completly disoriented until they gave me some medication to relieve it, And an epidural that "didn't work accordingly" and it took an hour for the doctor to get to the hospital!) but it gave my husband and I the time to be alone that we had wanted. We requested that our family not come to the hospital until Aeden's arrival and it worked out perfectly. We talked and watched tv and movies that we rented. Brittan took a nap as well. I can'ttell you how nice it was for usto spend that time together (just the two of us... after all, our life was about to change completly and "we" was about to be 3 of us).
  Well, after 12 hours of labor I was about to be a mom. Clearly I was in a ton of pain, Brittan was watching me like he was helpless because he couldn't do anything to help me. Next thing I know, Aeden's heart rate is coming and going from the monitor... there's now a ton of nurses standing by to see my little one. Of course I'll spare you a ton of details, which I already have. Once Aeden arrived it's alittle of a blur again. Brittan cut the umbilical cord and the nurses took him. I asked Brittan to go with. Aeden was crying and I watched Brittan watch our son from across the room.
4:10 AM I am a mom. My son is healthy and beautiful. As I look at my husband I realize that it seems like he's always been missing something... our son,and now that he's holding Aeden he looks perfect!

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