our baby boy

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so on Tuesday we went to my regular appt. at 11 am. I was dialated 5-6 cm and my dr. said enough already! we are having this baby! She sent me over to the hospital (essentially through the hallway which was awesome!)

we were so thankful that my mom was here because we didn't have any of our stuff, most importantly our camera! it was so great that she was able to bring everything to us.

The dr. said I only needed a bit of Pitocin to get things going. That started at 1 pm. By 3 pm I was starting to ask about that epidural! The strange thing is the contractions were all in my hip bones, which I wasn't expecting! I didn't even have them in my stomach area. The epidural kicked in by about 4 which was wonderful. Then things slowed down a little as they tend to.

The hardest thing at this point was that I was so hungry! Since I didn't expect this to happen today, I had only eaten 2 muffins at 8:30 am. I was so famished by late that night that I didn't feel like I had much strength.

Fast forward to 7:00, I was fully dialated, but the baby was not low enough for me to start pushing. So they adjusted my position and let me sit a while longer. About 8 pm they decided I should try pushing. After an hour and a half we weren't making a whole lot of progress which was somewhat discouraging. I felt the dr. was getting frustrated with me for not doing it "right". (She later apologized when she realized why :)

So at 9:30 pm they decided to turn my epidural way down unfortunately!! Then after another hour and a half of pushing, Graham FINALLY made his grand appearance (11:05 pm)! It was pretty rough there at the end especially, quite painful, but we are just so thankful that it's over and that he is a healthy little boy.

So the big surprise was that the little guy turned out to be a massive 10 pounds!! My dr. had estimated him to be around 7 lbs! So that is when everyone realized why it was so hard to get him out! But the blessing is this - my dr. told me that if she would have known he was 10 lbs. she probably would not have let me try to push him and would have taken me right to c-section. So I am SO thankful that I was able to avoid that and it was possible to have him on my own.

finally holding my little boy

not so happy!
snuggling with daddydaddy changing his 1st diaper!

he also put on Graham's shirt upside down which was hilarious!love our sweet little man!