We did it!

Langston is now 1 week old! What a blessing! He is the most adorable little baby I have ever seen! At his 5 day check up he had already gained 3 oz. back of the 13 he lost while he was in the hospital.

Mom has been a wonderful help taking care of me while I take care of Langston. I have suffered from a spinal headache this whole entire week. Apparently my CSF is leaking out my spinal column, a side effect from the spinal block (epidural) that I had during the C-section. Most people go back into the hospital to get a blood patch, but I was already "traumatized" from all the poking and prodding that I decided to wait it out and let it heal on its own. The blood patch would have provided instant relief, but the leak would heal itself in 7 days. The blood patch would have consisted of injected 15 ml of my own blood back into my spinal column to clot off the leak. Now can you see why I chose to wait it out? Thanks to mom for taking care of me while I heal! I am doing much better now and can enjoy being a mommy!

The C-section went of without a hitch. I was very surprised with myself at how well I did..I only tried to pass out once and the anesthesiologist gave me some medication that pepped me right up. I was off all major pain medicines except Tylenol #3 and Motrin after the 1st day. I was up and showered and walking some on the second day! My stitches still hurt and I have ..what I call "phantom pain"... in my stomach where all the nerve endings are growing back together.

Mom is leaving today. Michael and I get to try this parenting thing out by ourselves... What an adventure!

I still feel like I am babysitting...well...minus the whole breastfeeding thing...

BREASTFEEDING is taking over my life! It is a wonderful thing..but it takes FOREVER!

We will post more pictures soon..for now visit www.langstonking.shutterfly.com for pictures of Langston. Thank you for the encouragement. I am happy to talk on the phone..now that my headache is gone... The only problem we have is that my iphone won't let me TALK on the phone..so text me and I will call you back on Michaels...or just call Michaels phone :-)

While my mom continues to get ready to leave, Michael and I are going to sneak away to get lunch :-)

C-Section Tomorrow

Today is the due date for our son, Langston, to be born. After going to the 40 week checkup this morning, we found out that Langston has somehow flipped himself around this past week. I had noticed him being EXTREMELY hyperactive this week...didn't realize what was actually happening. All the pelvic pain was due to his feet! The sonogram took a while today. Langston had his legs straight out and wasn't moving them much at all. They pushed and pushed and tousled him around. He finally moved them a little bit. This made Michael and I very nervous. Babies don't just chill with their legs straight out...I am still worried that something is wrong. All I can do at this point is pray and know that God has a plan, and there is no sense in me worrying. Because Langston is breech, the doctor wanted to schedule the C-section today or tomorrow. I haven't been preparing myself for this possibility and it hit me hard quite honestly. We planned it for tomorrow morning so our family would have time to be here. I have to get to the hospital at 5:30am. They will begin around 7 or 7:30.

I have only had one other surgery in my life...sinus surgery. It took 4 people to start an IV. Today I have to go get my blood taken. I usually come close to passing out every time. I almost passed out during the sonogram this morning (it was hot...and scary). I am going to get an epidural...oh dear... I am the biggest baby and have NO IDEA how I will make it through. PLEASE PLEASE pray that I don't have a panic attack!

I can't wait to see Langston's sweet face. I told Michael earlier...that he may not see me smile much until I do. I have way too much anxiety and worry for him to have time to smile. But as soon as I know he is okay... and that I have survived...then it will be a beautiful moment! I can't wait!

39 weeks!

Thursday we went for my weekly check up. The doctor did say that the baby was definitely lower, but I am still not dilated. I have still not had any contractions, so they scheduled me to have another sonogram next Thursday (the end of 40 weeks). Hopefully we will have some action this week. The exam was rather painful and unfortunately caused some side effects that took me off guard. For the sake of blogging, I will leave the description out. I guess Langston is being stubborn. We ate Mexican food last night, walked around downtown Columbus today for several hours, got a pedicure/foot massage...any other suggestions?

The difficult decision will now be whether to induce, c-section, or wait it out. Dr. Brown said if I were induced now, it would be about a 30 hour labor...YUCK!... I am tremendously wanting to avoid surgery, but waiting so long is killing me. What if the baby is huge? I guess we will see after Thursday's sonogram!

Please pray that I have some contractions between now and Thursday. It apparently will cause the dilation to occur, which in turn would mean I could be induced...or that Langston will be coming soon.

Mom is now here having fun with me! She brought more gifts, baby room stuff, and part of the baby bed that my dad has made. I will post pictures soon! Dad did a fabulous job...it is just beautiful! It is wonderful to have parents that are so talented... it is so special to have their handmade crafts to pass on for generations!

No Braxton-Hicks

It's now Tuesday.  That puts us at 9 days to delivery date.  I don't think we are off by much in the conception date, even the OB said Emily was really close with all of her date estimations.  We are both really hoping that Langston comes on or before delivery date.  If not, I won't get a chance to spend much time with him before I have to head off to Albuquerque.  Of course Emily will be only a week behind me, but who wants to be apart from their newborn son right after birth for a week?  All this complaining because Emily has had only one Braxton-Hicks contraction, and that was around two weeks ago.  According to our OB Em will have more and more Braxton-Hicks contractions as the baby gets ready to be born.  I didn't know that Braxton-Hicks were a sign that the delivery day was getting close.  Also, her cervix was still high as of last Thursday, which is also isn't a good sign in terms of baby coming soon.  Maybe all this will change by our next appointment (this Thursday).  We are both getting pretty anxious.