joshua luke at 1 week

ok so several weeks have passed but Im still tring to stay in order...

here's my little guy at 1 week - cute, isnt he?!

daddy's birthday

the day before baby was born it was my dear's birthday. (Im secretly glad he waited to arrive after daddy's birthday - baby should have his own special day!)

off to our fav, Cheesecake Factory. ahh...our last outting as a family of four...

the friday before baby was born...

so I go in for my normal weekly check up and lo and behold Im 3cm dialated and 90% effaced. the dr. thinks the baby will arrive sometime during the weekend, so there I was that friday, just waiting at home for any signs of baby's arrival...

soooo, there I was saturday, waiting for baby's arrival...

soooo, there I was sunday, waiting for baby's arrival...

umm, this is getting repetative. there I was waiting monday AND tuesday. waiting waiting waiting.

tuesday night into wed. morning - 2:45am, hmm... was that a contraction? about 10 min later, was that another one? 5 min. later, yeah these are contractions. woo hoo time to go to the hospital!

we got to the hospital in 10 min. so it wasnt too bad for the whole drive over. we get there and they hook me up to the monitors and stuff...so after about 45 min. they finally check down there - apperantly Im having contractions but Im not dialating at all (still at a 3, maybe 4) so they said I could walk the halls and in an hour if nothing, they'll send me home.

oh heck no, no one is sending me home, so I walked for about 20 min. and the pain became crazy pain. so they checked again and yay I was at 5cm. not much but they kept me. ok so by this time, oh those contraction hurt like heck. yeah, I was crying already, saying silly things, like I wanted to go home...Im such a baby!

well they still had to wait to put in the epi, which I begged for, since I didnt have an IV going (still needed to finish the bag once I did) they didnt draw my blood yet, so we still had to wait for the lab people...oh I was dying...

they did move me to my L&D room and there the epi guy came and agreed to give it to me w/out bloodwork yet. this time (compared to eli's where they yelled at me to calm down and curl my back) they were nice, I still couldnt curl it but managed to get into a postion that they were happy with. so yay drugs!!! love them!!!!

ok so layed back down and in 5 min. my water broke...nurse check...10cm and ready to go...so she went out, got the goods, called the dr. and we were just waiting for the dr. it was a shift change 7:00am so the dr. oncall handed me over to the next dr. up (which I liked better, he delivered jenalyn).

that epi, ummm...yeah, totally took away the pain but I still felt everything, EVERYTHING! that was gnarly (so couldnt find a word to describe that so gnarly it is) seriously its like crapping out a big ol' bowling ball...weirdest feeling ever!

took about 3 pushes and there he was!

funny side note - when I was pushing I managed to say, "sheesh!" and the OB was teasing me saying, "oh wow, shes getting bold on us, she said 'sheesh'. she almost had to go to Confession for that one."


joshua luke - 7 lbs. 11 oz. 19.5 in. 3/17/2010 7:31am

let me back track first...

ok, ok, so I havent updated in a while, well because its been busy - you know having a baby and all...

but Im gonna back track and blog about the days before my littlest guy was born (oh and he's not little by far, more on that later...)

"are we there yet?"

"no we're not there yet!" - where is there, you ask???

there: at the hospital ready to have a baby!

ok so time is a tickin' and its not ticking fast enough for me! this little boy wants out and mama wants him out too. he is just way too active to stay in there much longer and I just want to be able to move regularly again - no waddling, no rolling over out of bed, no bracing myself to get up, no gopher II grab tool - oh wait, I take that back, I still LOVE that thing (although I have a brand new one since some little 22 month old has broken in twice and super gluing isnt working anymore) ugh - hows that for a list of complaints... I could go on, but I guess I should save my energy for something better (like walking 5 feet!)

as much as I want baby boy to arrive, I guess I shouldnt be so eager. there's still so much on my "to do" list before he gets here. so I better get on the ball and at least pack a hospital bag, right? install his car seat, get his crib ready, get new bottle parts...oh my...I better go, apparently Im not ready!!!!

my sleepy kids

nothing new and exciting just sleeping kids...

eli was so cranky and tired last weekend, he fell asleep on the kitchen floor (umm, sooo not clean!)


and jenalyn usually loves to pile her stuffed animals on herself before she sleeps, but today she decided to wrap herself.

a shower and a sprinkle

thank you to my mom and my 2 aunties for throwing me and my sis a dual baby shower and sprinkle for our little buns.

we had lots of fun, esp. since I dont get to see my sis too often and how cool is that, that we are both preggers at the same time! btw. her sweet baby girl is due at the end of april, so we're really only a month apart from eachother...but man look how much bigger I am than her!!! (ok so this is my 3rd baby and her 1st - but still!)

and yes, we are so silly when were together, can you tell? oh and we were suppose to wear the same outfit too, but she forgot to pack it in her luggage (yeah, we're sisters, we're old, but we can still dress alike - hee hee)