Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Family Pictures
Family photos! (Matthew is 2 weeks old and Mark is 4yrs. old)
Proud grandparents!
Daddy's Fireman gear
First family photo w/all 4 of us! Cheese!!!
Shhhhh.........
Matthew is praying that his big brother does not drop him...
Proud grandparents!
Daddy's Fireman gear
First family photo w/all 4 of us! Cheese!!!
Shhhhh.........
Matthew is praying that his big brother does not drop him...
Friday, March 26, 2010
Welcome baby Matthew!
March 15, 2010 we added a new addition to our family...meet baby Matthew! He weighed 7lb and 3oz and at a length of 20inches.
My parents arrived on Sat. evening and I was scheduled to be induced on the following Monday, we were hoping that my parents would arrive before the baby arrived and they did! Praise the Lord! I slept very little on the night of the 14th anticipating my 4:30am apt. at the hospital the following morning.
Scott, my mom and I arrived on time, they got me all set up and by 6:30am they started the pitocin. My doctor came in around 9:20 to break my water and by 10am I got the epidural! By about 10:45 or so I was at 10cm and was ready to push. Shortly after at 11:38 Matthew was born. (I know...quick and easy...all the nurses told me I need to have more due to my speedy births...not gonna happen.)
As far as recovery goes, I was up and about the day I had him, little swelling but that went away within 24hrs. We had to spend one night at the hospital and then got to go home on the 16th.
Mark is enjoying looking at Matthew and being a big brother.
Thank you to all who kept us in prayer!
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Baby Update
Well, as of now we still have not welcomed baby Matthew into the world.
I had the pleasure of having another co-worker work Wednesday afternoon for me, that left me to do some shopping. I went to Kohl's and Ross where I spent a good amount of time just walking around. After my shopping fiasco I went to pick up Mark from school, we came home, swung on the swing, played in the front yard w/our neighbors...and then out of nowhere I started having labor pains! Now I have had contractions here and there but these were 2 min. apart! So I called my lovely husband at work and had him come home immediately to take me to the hospital. So, I had my bags semi-packed, but I didn't even think about having a bag ready for Mark. So, I quickly gathered up a few clothes and essentials for Mark because he was going to spend the night at my boss' house.
So, we get to the hospital, they ask us hundreds of questions and then they hook me up to the monitors, my contractions are every 2 min but they are not intense and I am not dilated at all! So, here comes the fun part...they have us walk around the labor area for 1hour! Now it's already 8pm (my bedtime.) After walking for the hour they check me and hook me up to the monitor...again, no progress but the contractions are getting stronger....so we get to walk around for another hour! I get checked again and hooked up to the monitor...now I am 1cm and the contractions are still 2 min. apart and off the charts strong, so what do they do? Yup! I get sent home! So I continue to have these contractions till 4am, (took LOTS of Tylenol.)
Friday was my Dr.'s apt and as of that day I am 2cm along! Yay!
So, we are just patiently waiting now, not trying to speed anything up.
Please keep me in prayer for a non-complicated delivery..speedy one too (but not too speedy....Mark took only 3hrs.) I want there to be enough time for me to get the epidural. :)
I had the pleasure of having another co-worker work Wednesday afternoon for me, that left me to do some shopping. I went to Kohl's and Ross where I spent a good amount of time just walking around. After my shopping fiasco I went to pick up Mark from school, we came home, swung on the swing, played in the front yard w/our neighbors...and then out of nowhere I started having labor pains! Now I have had contractions here and there but these were 2 min. apart! So I called my lovely husband at work and had him come home immediately to take me to the hospital. So, I had my bags semi-packed, but I didn't even think about having a bag ready for Mark. So, I quickly gathered up a few clothes and essentials for Mark because he was going to spend the night at my boss' house.
So, we get to the hospital, they ask us hundreds of questions and then they hook me up to the monitors, my contractions are every 2 min but they are not intense and I am not dilated at all! So, here comes the fun part...they have us walk around the labor area for 1hour! Now it's already 8pm (my bedtime.) After walking for the hour they check me and hook me up to the monitor...again, no progress but the contractions are getting stronger....so we get to walk around for another hour! I get checked again and hooked up to the monitor...now I am 1cm and the contractions are still 2 min. apart and off the charts strong, so what do they do? Yup! I get sent home! So I continue to have these contractions till 4am, (took LOTS of Tylenol.)
Friday was my Dr.'s apt and as of that day I am 2cm along! Yay!
So, we are just patiently waiting now, not trying to speed anything up.
Please keep me in prayer for a non-complicated delivery..speedy one too (but not too speedy....Mark took only 3hrs.) I want there to be enough time for me to get the epidural. :)
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