Lots to Update About!

Okay, so we haven't blogged in quite some time...as most of you all know the baby is already here, came 8 weeks early. I went into labor on Sunday (but didn't really know it, I thought I had just over done it cleaning the house...we went to dinner and movie that night, all the while I was miserable!) and went to work Monday morning still not feeling "right". I called my doctor and they told me to come in to be on the safe side and turns out I was already 4 cm and his water was about to break.

Since I was only 32 weeks they wanted to stop labor as long as they could. I was given steroids to help mature little man's lungs for when he arrived and I was put on total bed rest, which means no getting up to do ANYTHING and started on magnesium sulfate to stop my contractions. This stuff makes you feel like pure crap. They had to keep upping my dose to get the contractions to stop but it was making me violently ill. So they backed off on the amount of magnesium and everything seemed to be looking good. No contractions...low level of mag...so they decided to take me off the mag and see how I would do. I did great all day until I got woken up in the middle of the night by the nurse asking if I was feeling "that"? I said what is "that"? Apparently I was contracting again but was sleeping so hard I didn't feel it. Back on the mag I went and we finally got it all leveled out.

The nurse was talking to us about what would happen now...I would go upstairs to the maternity ward to wait out at least 2 more weeks then see what happens. We were asking all kinds of questions about "what happens when..." or "what if...." and finally after about a 30 min question session she said "Any other questions?" and I looked up and said "Uh yeah, I think my water just broke." And she said "Are you serious?" and I said "Uh, yeah, very." So we were taken to the delivery room and everything happened so fast from there...I had my epidural and waited it out until I was ready to push. I had no energy to push from getting no rest the previous 4 days but it took about 20 pushes and he was here!

James Dexter Weibelt was born on 10/09/08 at 2:11 pm weighing in at a whooping 4 lb 5 oz and 19.25 in long. A head full of dark hair like both of us when we were born!


This was right after he was born.



This was a couple of days old.


Such a tiny boy.

I will be posting some more pictures in a little better order here shortly! :)