My Little Man

So, I have to show off my lil man! Heres a few...there will be a lot more to come! He is such a lil stud already, at a week and a half old! :)

Noah's Birth Story!!!

I Started having contractions at about 2:30 am on the 25th. I didn't know if it was real labor or not till I tried going to bed, and the contractions were so strong I couldn't sleep. I decided to get in the shower and eat some toast, then we headed to Labor & Delivery at about 6...but didn't get there till 7. We would've liked to labor at home longer, but it was a really bad snow storm so we decided we shouldn't. When I got there is was 4 & fully thinned & stretchy. We went to our room and my doula arrived at the hospital. I started out using the whirlpool tub, which quit working due to technical problems. Then I sat on the birthing ball for a while. Bouncing a little during contractions really helped. My doula did the hip press a lot, which is where her & SO each pressed one of my hips in during a contraction, that really seemed to help too. I was stuck at a 7 for a few hours, which got discouraging. I was finally ready to push at about 2:30 pm. We tried a lot of positions for that too...side-laying, squatting bar, laying over the bed, etc. But when it came down to it...the thing that worked best for me was god ol fashion laying down in the bed. Noah Lee was born two hours later at 4:42 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 2 oz. and was 20 inches long. It was so amazing. I struggled through the pushing part but the rest was okay. The pain was bearable and I deffinently encourage all you guys to do all-natural, society greatly exaggerates the pain, yeah it hurts...but you can deffinently make it through it! I wouldn't have done it any other way!!! And It feels amazing to tell all those people who said "you cant/wont do it" HAHAHHA. Now that Noah is here I couldn't picture our life without him! He is my world!

Lately..

Okay, I appologize...I haven't been on here in FOREVER!! I am stillllll pregnant, no baby yet! We have been busy getting prepared for Noah and I started classes and am trying to do as much online homework as I can before he comes. I am dilated to 3 cms tho and 80% effaced! I have been going to my midwife weekly and meeting with my doula a lot too. Little Noah just doesn't wanna come out!
My due date is actually Monday, and I go to the midwife then and she is going to strip my membranes and hopefully that'll get the ball rolling....we can only hope!
I am miserable though, severe hip pain, gas pain, back pain, contractions (now getting painful), and all sorts of icky pregnancy related problems. haha.
Well, I have a baby shower to go to for my friend Jenna today, she too is having a boy--but in April. Then tomarrow Andrew & I are going to my doula's house to practice pain relief techniques, which is going to be amazing while I am in labor! And then I think we might go visit my dad & other family one last time before I have this baby.

This Week...

...Me & Kory

...Kory & Kass

Well, I will be 37 weeks along on Monday! Wahoo. It's so hard to imagine that in three weeks, we will be a family, have a baby, and I will be a mommy. I am so excited! I start DMACC classes back up again on the 12th... :(. Then, after this semester I will only have one more class to take, which I will be taking in the summer. For New Years Eve, I had Kassie & Kory come stay the night with us and celebrate the new year with them! It was so fun and cute. We danced, ate, and colored! It made me realize how much I really love them & how much they need me, unlike my other siblings. Not that I don't love my other siblings, they just aren't as dependent on me as Kory and Kassie and I never raised them... I will miss em when we move, but I know they will be okay and safe where they are. Here are some pictures from the night...
...Kass & Andrew playing Tony Hawk.