Well, as I'm sure a lot of you can imagine, I haven't had a moment to update this yet. Here's a photo I just took of our newest addition to the family. He'll be 2 weeks old tomorrow.
We're busy and sleep deprived, of course. Unfortunately breastfeeding wasn't working out very well for us, so I'm pumping breastmilk and feeding it to him in a bottle, but other than that, things are going fine.
The actual labor and delivery went very well. I had absolutely no pain once I got the epidural. I was surprised by that. I had always thought that the epidural just helped with the pain, not eliminated it. Labor prior to the epidural wasn't too bad either. I had my first contraction at 3:30 in the morning. Perryn was born at 6:30pm, so I guess we'd call that 15 hours of labor. I pushed for 2 hr 15 min and we nearly had to use forceps to get him out, but we managed just in the nick of time. I did have a little more bleeding than normal, but it was easily controlled and all was fine.
And that's our news in a nutshell. :-)
2 comments:
Wonderful..
I can't wait until I can see him..
Neat name..
Love,
Aunt Pudgie
Rachelle,
How is it going? Time to update the picture. I know he has changed.
Cute baby.
Judy
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