waiting is over!!

well here is sylvan pancake-adventure mcfarland's first picture!! he came into the world via a c section march 15th at 12:47 at 6pounds 12oz. and 19 3/4 inches long... he was rated with 9's on his APGAR scores- a test they give babies right away and 5 minutes after birth measuring basic things like alertness and color... i don't think anyone gets a 10... but he was beautiful and pink and yelling when he was born....

it was a long birthing process as i went in for a routine check up on Tuesday the 13th and the doc told me i had protien in my urine and wanted me to go in for some tests... i went in and then and they decided my blood pressure was going up and i was heading into mild pre-eclampsia so they were going to try to get me to go into more labor as i was having irregular contractions and was a bit effaced and dilated already so they gave me some goo to make me more effaced and hopefully to bring more regular contractions and the stuff takes 12-24 hours to work... so that started everything and i had to be put on several IV fluids and one made me very sick and woozy feeling...then i got to about 7cms dilated and totally effaced and they gave me an epidural and then things just stopped...my epidural eventually wore off and i felt pretty awful for many hours and was in quite a bit of pain then they decided to go ahead with a c section as i was so exhausted and nothing was working even adding pitocin to my meds wasn't speeding anything up and pushing was starting to be out of the question...

the c section went okay... i got kinda sick from the anesthesia but other than that i felt weird but fine... he was born quickly and eric got to see him quickly... eric did a great job and tried to be very supportive even though we were both pretty freaked out...

i was just so happy he was healthy and okay!! he looked beautiful and healthy right away and the doctors all said he was super cute...even for a newborn who aren't always super cute hehe...
it was a long hospital stay and lots of drugs and etc to get him here but once he was born all was good...

we are finally home - we were let go yesterday from the doctor and all is well!! he has his first peds. appt. tomorrow for his check up and hopefully all will be well... he seems good..a little mixed up on sleeping but hopefully we'll get that straight soon...eric and i are pretty tired from trying to soothe him at 4am...but so far he's doing well... and all of the tiredness will wear off as we sink into family life hehe...

it's just totally surreal...
dude
i am a mom!!
crazy!!

waiting

well i am waiting now....just sort of in this holding pattern... he's not as giant as they were worried about which is good but he's still on the big side about 8 pounds... if he gets really big then a csection will be scheduled for the weekend of the 23rd (which is eric's birthday)...and if he is measuring really big in general they may just give me a csection if i go into labor too... they just won't let me progress if he is looking too big... they are worried about his shoulders being too big and him getting stuck... i don't really care how they get him out at this point just so that he's safe and healthy and out of my body!! hehe ...i am getting tired of being preggers but still quite scared about bringing him home and being his mom!! so many things to consider.... but i know he'll be fine and so will i... just makes me a bit nervous...and excited... anyway...hoping to get through one more week of work if possible...i think it would be nice to get paid for one more week... but if not it will be fine...it's up to him now when he wants to put in his first appearance to the world... but all is well...i am no longer horribly sick and i my blood sugar has been good and my blood pressure good... i have my energy spurts and my exhausted spurts but overall doing well... that's good... trying to get stuff done i won't be able to do soon... got to get some homework done too... my work paperwork stuff is pretty wrapped up which is super nice...my sub should be able to breathe a bit easier.... anyway...
not much else happening just waiting now... lalalalalalalala