Time to Update

Barb is here for a week, which gives me some time to answer a few of the questions people have been asking me. Regretfully, I do not have time to go into too much detail about any one question. Perhaps that is a good thing for everyone. ;)


What have we been up to:

Today we went to the beach with the girls. That was a lot of fun. However, I have a hard time detaching myself from the lifeguard inside of me. Yesterday we went to watch the sailing races at lakeside as well as going for a swim. Sadly I have become that girl I never wanted to become; yes it is true, I didn’t want to get my hair wet.

How is Wes:

He seems to be a healthy happy baby. He sleeps, eats, and poops. He is just starting to smile a little bit when he first wakes up in the morning.

Is he sleeping through the night:

Ummm he is only one month old….. So I am going to have to go with: No. Unless you can count not going to bed until 1:30 am and waking up at 4:30 AM as sleeping through the night.

How was the delivery:

I don’t know how to even answer this one without just making an outline and leaving it at that.
· 1:00 AM Wake up with horrible back pain
· 2:00 AM getting tired of the back pain so I steam roller Drew so he can tell that I am miserable.
Which is not an easy thing to do at 9 months
· 3:00 AM after a hot shower doesn’t seem to help at all we go to the hospital
· 4:00 AM the mid-wife on duty feels sorry for me but think that I am only dilated to a 2 ½ and you need to be at a four before they will keep you
· 5:00 AM I have to wait until 7:00 AM to see if anything changes by the time the Dr. comes in to see if get to stay or not. I try to walk around the hospital jump up and down anything to speed this up.
· 6:00 AM I am in too much pain to walk around only thing that helps is the heat pack, so Drew and I watch u-tube clips in the hospital bed. (He knows just what to do to help, show me clips of people in more pain than me, stupid u-tube how you entertain me.)
· 7:00 AM Dr is running a bit late, Mid-wife feels sorry for me and talk them into keep me and just to induce me because this pain doesn’t seem to be stopping. She breaks my water and the back pain instantaneously goes away. They start my IV.
· 8:00 AM I meet the Dr that will deliver Wes and she doesn’t think that I am in that much pain, well not anymore. (It seems that Wesley’s head was pushing on a nerve, when they broke my water it caused his head to move just enough.)
· 9:00 AM Golden Girls marathon: Woot Woot.
· 10:00 AM not much has happened but Golden Girls are still on TV
· 11:00 AM the first “holy shit, I hate you” contraction hits. Epidural please!!!!!!!!
· 12:00 PM First Epidural Drew almost passes out, I move and it doesn’t work, They try again still no good. (It doesn’t help the I work with and know they guys so that makes it harder some time. The call the Dr in Third try is a charm.
· 1:00 PM -5:00PM all kind of blends together but I never once yelled at Drew I know I’m shocked too. We both just played on the computer to pass the time
· 6:00 PM I find out that “pressure” is pain, and that the epidural doesn’t help with “pressure”
· 7:00 PM they check again to see how things are going it turns into an oh my we need to get the Dr here ASAP
· 8:00 PM Dr shows up at 8:20 we have a long conversation in-between contractions and pushing about the growing problems of STD in nursing homes. Wes is born and 8:45

How is Drew handily everything:

Drew is great, he even read up on how to breast feed while we were in the hospital. So needless to say Drew was the one that had to teach me how to do it. (Drew’s Note: I was board in the tiny room and read the POORLY written 30 second killer whale “how to” flier on the bulletin board.)



How am I handily everything:

I’m still here taking more photos than ever.