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!!