Sara and alex:

So here is my birthstory may be kinda long and boring.
Woke up at like 5 am i couldn’t sleep i was too excited about the prospect of meeting our new lil man. Called the hospital at 6:30 am and was told to come on in. So we went in for 7:30 got hooked up they monitored the baby for a bit to get a strip of his heartrate.

My doctor came in at like 8:00 or so and checked, my cervix was 1 cm dilated and 3 cm longshe said i was not favorable and if they were busy she would send me home with no choices given but because they were empty she said i could stay to go ahead but risked a 50% chance of a section. We decided to go ahead and stay, so my doc put in a cervical foley (a foley catheter inserted into the cervix and inflated once you reach 3 cm dilated it falls out). She said it should fall out at suppertime and she woudl see me then. Three hours later it fell out at 1:00. But i was not dilated to the full three i was more 2 cm and stretchy.

At 1:00 she broke my water and they put up the pitocin drip at 2 pm. Labor didn’t really start til 7 pm (took my body a bit to figure out what was supposed to be going on). The contractions got good and strong at 7 pm and by 11 i couldn’t breathe through the contractions anymore and decided i couldn’t do this and wasn’t going to have a baby lol. at 11:40 i told them i felt really strong pressure and i had to push, my doc came in and i still had a lip so she held it back during a couple of contractions then she had me push. I pushed about 6 times and baby Holden Alexander Gordon was born at 11:50 pm weighing in at 7 lbs 5 ozs. 21 1/2″ long. He has really long feet, and fingers and superlong fingers nails and the most beautiful blonde hair.

I put him to breast at birth and he latched and is eating like a champ which is amazing now heres hoping i get good milk.

Here are a couple of pictures of him.

I am sorry i am slow on this one with the new baby i feel like i am falling behind but am finally catching up.

Congratulations Liza767 on winning my frecklebox giveaway.

So here is my birthstory may be kinda long and boring.
Woke up at like 5 am i couldn’t sleep i was too excited about the prospect of meeting our new lil man. Called the hospital at 6:30 am and was told to come on in. So we went in for 7:30 got hooked up they monitored the baby for a bit to get a strip of his heartrate.

My doctor came in at like 8:00 or so and checked, my cervix was 1 cm dilated and 3 cm longshe said i was not favorable and if they were busy she would send me home with no choices given but because they were empty she said i could stay to go ahead but risked a 50% chance of a section. We decided to go ahead and stay, so my doc put in a cervical foley (a foley catheter inserted into the cervix and inflated once you reach 3 cm dilated it falls out). She said it should fall out at suppertime and she woudl see me then. Three hours later it fell out at 1:00. But i was not dilated to the full three i was more 2 cm and stretchy.

At 1:00 she broke my water and they put up the pitocin drip at 2 pm. Labor didn’t really start til 7 pm (took my body a bit to figure out what was supposed to be going on). The contractions got good and strong at 7 pm and by 11 i couldn’t breathe through the contractions anymore and decided i couldn’t do this and wasn’t going to have a baby lol. at 11:40 i told them i felt really strong pressure and i had to push, my doc came in and i still had a lip so she held it back during a couple of contractions then she had me push. I pushed about 6 times and baby Holden Alexander Gordon was born at 11:50 pm weighing in at 7 lbs 5 ozs. 21 1/2″ long. He has really long feet, and fingers and superlong fingers nails and the most beautiful blonde hair.

I put him to breast at birth and he latched and is eating like a champ which is amazing now heres hoping i get good milk.

Here are a couple of pictures of him.

Is so not always fun lol. I am exhausted, although he sleeps decently ok at night he has to sleep with me or will not sleep at all. I have a bassinet and a moses basket for him and he wakes up the second he is layed in either, i put him in my bed and he sleeps the night away. I think it is time for mommy to go buy a bouncy seat and see if he will sleep in there.

I am not a co-sleeper, i see nothing wrong with it but it is a habit that i refuse to start and something that is so not for my family. But the last two days he has left me no choice because the only way i can sleep is with him in our bed which i must say is convienent for nursing lol.

This post is really going nowhere just wanted to write it out.

On a good note though my milk came in last night and i am so proud i was able to pump about 1/2 an oz in about 5 min just to see lol. I know this does not seem like a big deal but with my 19 month old daughter i struggled everyday every feed for the first six months of her life to eclusive breastfeed her. When i pumped it would take 20-30 min just to cover the bottom of the bottle on the pump so this is a huge thing for me and i just hope my supply keeps up. Although i do have a script for a drug that will help my supply if i need it.

On the bright side last night he had his first bath at home and we used his bath luve and he loved it and stopped crying as soon as i put it on him.

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