Hard to believe but our baby is finally here. whew! I have hundreds of emails that i haven't responded to and lots of mail, and phone calls have been hard to return (one at a time, one or so a day if i am lucky). sometimes we just sit there and stare at Thomas in awe and simple amazement. sometimes, we look at each other and wonder what we have gotten ourselves into. he doesn't really come with any sort of guarentee and is non-refundable on top of that. I guess God doesn't take returns on babies :)
So here are the essential details: his name is thomas, he weighed 7 pounds on the dot and was 19.5 inches. he was born on 1/8 at 7am by c-section. i went to the hospital on sat morning at 9am after my water broke. (if you read the post from the week before, i was doing some rather heavy cleaning on Friday, about 12 hours before my water broke at 6am). i was in labor for 18 hours and my doctor ended up having to deliver by c-section after determining that the baby was just not coming out. he was in the right position, but my pelvic bones were not separated enough to allow him to pass through.
so word to you who have not had babies yet: take that epidural while you can because labor without it was probably the most painful/agonizing thing i have ever been through. just when you think that it can't get more painful, it does and just gets worse and worse. then once you are fully dialated, you have to start pushing, and that is even worse than getting yourself fully dialated. God is good - He has provided a way out. take it unless you really enjoy pain, or don't feel it. ha ha...
i will post pictures later today if i can get on my desktop. we'll see...
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