It's A Boy!

A Baby Story-

When I got to work on Wednesday, I started feeling pretty junky. I was hot and then cold, I was naucious and couldn't remember any of my kid's names. I thought something was going on, so I called my mom. She said to go to the nurse's office. Maybe I just had a bug. After finding no temperature and eating lunch, I did feel better, but went home and got in bed right after school.

At 7:00 I started watching American Idol and thought I started to feel contractions. By 9:00 I was telling Grant that I thought something was going on.

I tried to sleep, but the contractions got stronger and stronger and by 12:00 I was up and telling Grant that I thought we would be going to the hospital by morning. I took a shower and started making sure everything was in my bag when my husband says to me, "Do you think I could go to the office? I have to go to court in the morning, but it doens't look like I am going to be able to make it". I reply with, "ARE YOU SERIOUS? NOW?!"

Long story short, he went to the office, I walked around downstairs and watched Oprah. By 3:00 I had been tracking my contractions and found that they were mostly 5 minutes apart. To be quite honest I thought I would go to the hospial and they would tell me to go home because I was imagining the pain to be a lot worse. Don't get me wrong. It was bad, but I wasn't screaming like in the movies.

When we got to the hospital, my nurse told me she thought I wasn't even in labor because I was so calm...go me! Then after she hooked me up to every machine in the hospital (I had no idea you get hooked up to so many things!), she told me I was dialated 5-6!! Grant immediately said, "I think I need to call your mom!" He told me she said, "I knew it!!"

The rest of the story goes as follows-

• I had to drag my IV and monitors into the bathroom multiple times because I drank a TON of water before we left because I knew I wasn't going to get any more once I got to the hospital. That was no fun.
• My parents and the in-laws showed up shortly after I we got there. I am not going to lie. It was strange having people in the room while I was in labor. I think they thought that because I wasn't screaming in pain that I wasn't in pain. I was.
• Epidural guy came in and made a stupid joke about "reading the manual" before he started. What a funny guy. Then the jerk continued to jam a needle into my back and because of my scoliosis it hurt worse that anything I had ever felt before. I started bawling only to hear him say, "That isn't working, I am going to have to try again". After jamming the needle into my spine for another couple minutes, he says, "Well, that was harder than I thought it was going to be". Gee wiz, thanks jerk. We're only talking about my spine! I don't know if I will be getting an epidural if I ever have another one. It almost wasn't worth it. It really was the worst part. I am probably the only person on earth that has ever said that.
• After the epidural, I thought, "Yay, I can take a nap now!" Nope. I went from an 8 to a 10 before I could even shut my eyes. Then they gave me the rest of my antibiotic (which burned so bad I thought I was going to barf) and it was game time.
• Without going into too much detail, by the time Baby was ready to came out, I was exhaustsed. I had been awake for two days and the epidural made me sleepy. He came after a little over an hour of work by Mom. All-in-all, my labor was about 15 hours from start to finish.
• Grant and I decided on Everett William Hash

Having my baby was the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. I look at him and think Wow! Not only did I cook that, I was able to get him out of there!

Everett's first doctor's appointment was today. They say that babies are supposed to lose weight and then be back to their birth weight 2 weeks after birth. Not this guy! He has already gained his weight back + 5 ounces! Yikes! He is doing great and his parents could not be happier. I have boo-hooed almost every day. I just look at him and burst into tears. Don't even get me started on how emotional I was when they had to do their business with his little boy business. I am seriously thinking of quitting my job. I have no idea how I am going to leave him. He is amazing.

I promise pictures will be coming very soon! I am having computer issues.