new pictures of aidan connor

well, we are doing good. i was back into my regular jeans four days after pushing him out (yeah!!) and sunday night he slept a whole 6 hours straight, and last night he slept a stretch of 5 hours. (yeah!!) i'm still trying to adjust to not getting consecutive hours of sleep, but i try to remedy that by sleeping when he sleeps, so my schedule is still completely whacked out. but today was a really productive day, i did 3 loads of laundry, cleaned my bathroom, reorganized my medicine cabinet, and cleaned my bedroom -- which if you've ever been to my house, my bedroom was completely crazy -- so it sounds like a small task, but it's not. i still need to do a load of dishes, but i think i'm going to put it off until tomorrow. and tomorrow my goal is to attack the clutter in my living room and mop my kitchen and bathrooms. and possibly take back all the baby gifts that need to go back.

the story of jocole

check out the story of jocole over at the jocole blog
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http://jocole.blogspot.com/2007/02/story-of-jocole.html

Introducing ...

well i woke up tuesday morning (february 13th) at 7:00 a.m. and had to go to the bathroom. when i crawled back in bed 10 minutes later i noticed a tightening in my stomach. i then started having contractions and they were 10 minutes apart.

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we checked into the hospital at 2:00 p.m. at 6:00 p.m. they broke my water. at 7:00 p.m. i got the epidural (ahhh, happiness ... i have a new best friend). i started pushing at 11:45 p.m. at 12:53 a.m. we added a beautiful baby boy to our family. 7 pounds, 2 ounces, 20 inches long. the perfect valentine's day present. he's the most perfect thing i've ever seen in my entire life. he has my eyes and he has the cutest dimples (from his daddy) and as soon as i can get a good picture of them i'll post it. he's perfect.

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so without further ado (thanx jayne) i'd like to introduce our son

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... aidan connor...

STILL no baby

just a quick update. STILL no baby. here is a picture of me not having a baby on february 1st. don't i look happy? and hubby looks very bored. yes, baby is still perfectly content being in my belly and kicking me constantly. thank you for all of your kind thoughts and prayers. we're okay with him still being in there too, i guess he'll come out when he wants to come out. we're not in a hurry (my doctor's gonna be out of town all week anyways). carry on, when it happens i promise to post pictures of my and the little guy. hopefully i'll look happier in those pictures.

still no baby

well, we tried to induce me into labor wednesday night.

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we were supposed to check in at the hospital at 6. we were running a little late and just as we were getting ready to head out the door, my cell phone rang. it was the hospital and they were crazy busy and didn't have a bed for me, and they told me to call back at 8 and see how things were. so we sat around and waited and called at 8, the nurse then told me they were STILL crazy busy and to call back at 10. so i called at 10 and they said things had finally died down and to come on in. so we packed up all of our stuff and headed over.

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we were checked in and everything by 10:30 pm. they started me on "cervadil" (spelling?) at about 11:30 pm, which i was on for 12 hours. we tried to get some rest for the long day of having the baby the next day.

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after a long night of not getting much sleep they then started the "pitocin" around noon. pitocin is what really get the contractions going (if the cervadil didn't) and is supposed to get the baby out. well they kept upping the dosage every half hour and i was having contractions about every 2 minutes. but they never really started hurting. they were uncomfortable, but no real pain. at 6 pm they checked me to see how far along i was, i was still only dilated to 1 cm. (you have to be 10 cm to push the baby out, so basically i wasn't anywhere).

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i was on the maximum amount of pitocin and they wouldn't be able to give me anymore. so i had two choices. they could break my water which *could* bring on labor, but if it didn't then we would HAVE to do a c-section. or i could go home and just let nature take its course.

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we decided to stop the pitocin and go home. i didn't want to force what wasn't happening. and i definately didn't want it to come to a c-section. i wanted to hold my son in my arms, but not at the risk of pushing myself to a c-section. so we came home.

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leaving the hospital after all of that without a baby was really hard.

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getting in my car this morning and seeing the car seat was REALLY hard.

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so, still no baby. the waiting continues.