Caleb is here!

Caleb is officially a week old today. We have been home for three days and things are going pretty good. Now for the details of the last week:

Since I have been measuring big through out the pregnancy, my doctor sent me in for an ultrasound on Thursday the 12th. Well the ultrasound tech seemed concerned with the size of the baby so she faxed my results to the doctor instead of waiting for the next courier service like normal. I got a call Friday around 12from my nurse practitioner saying that Caleb is measuring over 10 pounds and it looked like I had no amniotic fluid. She wanted to check with the Doctor and call me back but that I was probably looking at a c-section! The Doctor called me about 12:30 and said to get to the hospital now I am having this baby today! He said because the Ultrasound could measure a pound off in either direction that he did not want to risk Caleb being on the bigger end of the scale and getting stuck in the birth canal so he was not going to let me try to deliver vaginal.

So I called Will, jumped in the shower and did the dishes! (I know pregnancy does crazy things to your brain) We got to the hospital and I guess the doctor had not informed the nurses station I was coming so they had no beds available. They ended up hooking me up to monitors in the prep room for the OR while they were cleaning up a station in recovery. I was checked in and hooked up by about 2pm. They took me into the OR at about 3:45 and at 4:09 Caleb was born. Turns out there was plenty of amniotic fluid and Caleb weighed 9 pounds 6 ounces and was 20.5 inches long. During the surgery the doctors were joking about signing Caleb up for peewee football! It was very fast and painless, but I spent the entire time in the operating room sick! I was sick for quite a while afterward too. They wanted me to feed him around 8pm but I was still so sick, I could neither sit up nor take my head off the pillow. So unfortunately Caleb's first meal was a bottle of formula. By Midnight I was still nauseous but I was able to breast feed, and by 2am I was feeling much better, actually able to sit up all the way.

We came home on Tuesday and everything is going pretty good. Caleb had his first doctors visit and after dropping about 3/4 of a pound, is already back up to 9lb 3oz. We have already been peed on a few times and had a very interesting experience with projectile pooping during a changing session, but all in all everything is fairly normal. Click on the picture to see Calebs hospital stay and family photos!

New Belly Pic!

This is from Halloween at Scott and Emily's house so I was 37 weeks and 2 days. Emily is 5 weeks behind me due at Christmas! We went trick or treating with Kaitlin and her cousins, Sydney, Lucas, and Austin. It was a lot of fun! If you click on the picture you can see my other belly pictures. Boy do I look big!