We made bones...

I’m having such a hard time getting to the computer… I have this baby in my lap and he is just too damn cute to put down!

We are loving parenthood. It’s amazing just looking at him and realizing that we created this perfect little man. It honestly blows me away. I looked at his knee the other day and then at Mike and said “We made bones”… I just can’t believe it!

I don’t want him to grow up and I’m trying not to get sad thinking about one day having to leave him and come back to work, or one day him going off to college… and just really enjoy the moment.

Labor started early Sunday morning… contractions around 6:45am… severe back pain earlier- around 3:00… We went for a long walk, got the contractions going… and called the doc around 11. Went in, dilated to 3-4 so they admitted us. Pain was about a 6 out of 10 at this point. They broke my water and contractions quickly got worse. Minute and a half long, two minutes apart, so about 30 seconds of no pain… shoot me. I couldn’t even look at Mike. Probably 30 minutes after that I asked for the epidural… Dr. Harden assured me there was no/very little risk… so we went for it. I was dilated to a 7. I got to 10 at about 5 and started to push. Pushed for 2.5 hours. Was still in a lot of pain. Little monster did not want to come out.

He was born at 7:41… they put him directly on my chest and the look on Mike’s face is THE coolest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. It blew me away and I spent the next hour or so staring at his perfect little face and bonding with him.

The fam came in shortly afterwards and got to meet him. (They’d been in the waiting room for 6 hours with very few updates… we were too distracted… so I think they were more relieved than anything that we were okay). They got his APGAR scores and weighed him (8 lbs 1 oz and 21.25” long… a long baby!). He has huge feet and hands… and I love them!  Mike gave him a bath right there in our room and washed his head under the faucet- he loved it! I’ve never seen a baby with SO MUCH HAIR! He looks like a little man.

We moved to Recovery, where Kerry whipped out the champagne and we had a family toast. After everyone left, we had a little family time, just the three of us, and went to bed around 2:30am.

Mike is a diaper changing machine and has been with me through every minute. He gets up for every feeding, changes Gunney, gets me a drink and helps us get started.

We are enjoying every single minute of parenthood… and know the biggest challenges are in front of us. For now, we just sit around and stare at our perfect little Monster Baby.