Labor and Delivery

I just had to post this because I felt the need to brag :-) I started having close contractions at about 8 in the morning on the 23rd but they weren't as painful as I thought they should be ( I've never been in labor so I imagined they'd be much more painful ). Well I happened to have a doctors appointment at 11:30 so I decided to just go about my business until my appointment. By the time 11:00 rolled around my contractions had consistently been 4 minutes apart for about 3 hours but I was still determined to go to the doctors office first, I didn't want to go to the hospital for false labor :-) I had called my mom and told her at 9 what was going on and she was having a fit because I wasn't going straight to the hospital, she just kept telling me " I hope Chris knows how to tie off an umblical chord " but I kept telling her that it was probably false labor, I mean hey, I'm still not due for 6 more days, it was 3 weeks early and everyone kept telling me that when you have your first baby your usually over due. At 11:30 we finally got to my appointment and I got right in (there was no wait, thank God) and the doctor asked me why in the heck I wasn't at the hospital because I was having a baby... I must admit, I felt a little dumb, but I did not want to go to the hospital and waste time. So we got to the hospital pretty quickly, I was admitted at noon and dilated to a 5, they gave me the epideral 20 mintues after arriving, the doctor came in at 1:30 to break my bag and I was dilated to a 6, when he came in he told me things were going quickly and that he would probably be back in around 5 or 6 to help deliver our baby. As soon as he left I started dilating a centimeter every 30 minutes so the nurse had to call him back pretty quickly. I had Christian at 3:21 in 3 sets of pushes it was the easiest thing I've ever done and it terrifies me because I just know that I will never have such an easy labor and delivery again! By the time they sent me home 2 days later I definetly did not feel like I had just had a baby! The lord really blessed me with him :-)

I had to post my last belly picture, it feels weird not having one anymore!

Special Delivery!

Christian Douglas decided to grace our presents 3 weeks early! He was born at 3:21 pm on March 23rd, he weighed 6 pounds 5 ounces and was 19 inches long. I can't believe he is 2 weeks already! Sienna is an amazing big sister to him she loves to help out. She loves giving him kisses, fixing his hair into a mohawk and laughing at the million funny faces he makes a day :-) Chris is a proud daddy he has been amazing at helping out and I am so happy he finally has a little boy! My mom came the first week to help out and boy did she ever! I was so scared that when she left I wouldn't be able to keep up but I am managing. Christian is so adorable in every way imaginable I love just watching him sleep. He doesn't let me get to much sleep though, he wakes up about every 2 hours at night to eat and then sleeps really well during the day, needless to say I am learning to function off of about 4 hours of sleep a day :-) Everyone says that he looks just like Chris but I think the older he's getting the more he's looking like me, I'll let you be the judge. Either way, Chris and I make some pretty cute kids :-)