Welcome to the World!

Jeremy Dale was born on May 18th at 2:55pm. 7lbs 6oz. I thought I was in labor so we went to the hospital Monday night at about 10pm. They checked my cervix and I was still at a 1cm so I was going to be sent home. About 30 seconds after the nurse left my room my water broke right there in triage. Water breaking = ticket to stay in the hospital. Most women's contractions start right away after water breaking but everything in my body stopped. So from about 1am to 6am we waited. At 6am the doctor started me on pitocin to start contractions. 7:30am I asked for an epidural. I slept after that for about 4 hours and when I woke up I was at 7cm. Then in a space of about 10 minutes I was at 10cm. With David I was waiting to dilate that much for like 12 hours. We we shocked at how fast this went. I had to wait for the doctor to get there to push so we all sat around for about 30mins. Then the doctor got there, I pushed twice, and the baby was here. With David I pushed for 2 hours. This was easy breezy. Then he wouldn't cry or really move and he wasn't pinking up. They took him off of me and called in a bunch of people that looked like doctors and nurses and they all talked together a lot. And also a whole lot of nothing was said to us. We all were staring at where the baby was wondering what was wrong with him. They told me he needed to go to the nursery to be examined and monitored for a couple of hours. They let me hold him for a second before they took him. You can see the baby specialist doctor standing right there waiting to take him from me. After about an hour the pediatrician came into my room and told us what had happened. Jeremy had swallowed blood as he came out and also the placenta had broken away from my uterus right as he was delivered. I guess this causes blood from his body to be sucked back into the placenta. So as he came out he swallowed blood and had about 25% of his blood supply sucked out of his body. He was in shock and that's why he didn't cry or really move and he was white. So he needed some time to produce some replacement blood and continue to improve until the doctor felt he was ready to be in our room without monitoring. This is me getting to see him in the nursery after my epidural wore off a little. Tyler getting to hold him too. This is him out of the nursery and me getting to feed him his first bottle.

And daddy burping.

The day we came home David got to come with to pick me up and to meet his little brother. He looks interested here but since then David has pretty much pretended Jeremy doesn't exist. Its funny.

And here he is home at last. My recovery is going great, mainly because of the lack of pushing. So far I am feeling a lot better than I did with David. Jeremy has been a great baby for 4 days of life. He eats great. Never have I seen or heard of a newborn being sooo good at sucking. Especially for being 3 weeks early he just did it right away. He takes a binki perfectly as well. Most early babies have trouble sucking and its a pain for everyone to get the baby to eat. Jeremy is just a dream. He does have a lot of burping issues. For a 2 ounce bottle you have to burp him about 5 times during it. Otherwise he will just throw up everything. So he's pretty much perfect. He sleeps well for the most part in between feedings and crying is so far a rare occurrence. We love him a lot!