Aiden Jacob is here!!

All about Aiden:

Sadly he is a month old now before I finally have the chance to post this! Life has been fast moving as expected!! Aiden is the most amazing baby and we are totally crazy about him!! As we speak he is on my lap staring around the room with his big beautiful blue eyes! (which I am hoping stay!)We had our one month check-up yesterday. He now weighs 10 lbs 13 ounces and is 23 1/2 inches!! My boy is gonna be tttaaaalllll like his daddy! He is on a night time routine, at least Jake and I like to think so. He takes a bath with daddy about 8:30-9pm, then we snuggle and I feed him. After that I rock him till he is asleep and we put him down. Recently he has been sleeping till about 2-2:30, getting up and eating and then back down till around 6. Not too shabby if you ask me and I am hoping this is a sign that he is on his way to sleeping through the night soon! Maybe I just totally jinxed it though!

Mommy update:

All things considered I am doing awesome! I was really bummed for a while that I ended up having to have an emergency c-section but all that matters is that he is here safety. According to my Dr I had an "abnormally fast recovery" because the day after I was up walking around. Don't get me wrong I was still in an insane amount of pain but I knew that if I sat around my recovery would take that much longer. At my two week check-up she was shocked how good I had healed. To be totally honest, the scar is kind of cool. It's amazing that they got Aiden out of there because the incision is pretty small. Breastfeeding is nothing like I thought it would be. I don't know what I was expecting but I really enjoy it. Aiden is much more calm and relaxed after I breastfeed him rather then giving him a bottle.

Aiden's birth story:

I went in on July 20th at 9 am for my induction. We finally got situated and a little after 10am they placed the cytotec to soften my cervix. They then told me they would check me in a few hours. I was hooked up to the monitors and I starting having contractions. I couldn’t really feel them just tightening. Aiden was dealing with them really well at this point. They came and checked me sometime after 1pm and I didn’t have much change but since my contractions were happening so close and so frequently they decided that they would not give me another round of cytotec. At this point they decided to just monitor me and see if I made any progression. That’s when Aiden started hating labor. His heart rate was fluctuating but nothing too major when I was on my back so they told me to make sure I lie on my side. At this point I was still only 2 cm dilated. Aiden’s heart rate kept acting funky and fluctuating between 150-88 and it was scaring me. The nurses hooked me up to an IV and had me wear and oxygen mask. I knew that he was having trouble and they just told me that he did not like the contractions or the labor. At 6pm my Dr came on call and broke my water. After this the contractions got REALLY intense and because I was not in actual labor at the time I was having them every 30-45 seconds and they were not letting up AT ALL. I was in so much pain. I would have been fine if they would have been coming every few minutes but I was not getting a break between them and they were intense. Finally the nurses asked me if I wanted an epi because they knew I had to be in pain just from watching my screen. The epi was AMAZING and I truly did want to kiss my anesthesiologist. I kept hearing the nurses say that my labor was “problematic” and my dr was “very aware of the situation.” I knew something was going on and asked them about his heart rate. She finally told me that if he didn’t start to regulate that they might have to do a c-section. Finally my Dr. came in and talked to us. What we feared was going to happen, had to. She gave me the option of starting pitocen to see if it would kick start my labor BUT if Aiden’s heart rate kept up the same they would have to do a section. She gave me the options and told me to talk to Jake about it and decide. She also told us that it was her gut feeling that we should get him out soon because the pitocen can be hard on babies and if he was already not reacting well she was worried how he would react to the pitocen. After talking it over, we decided that his health is our number one priority and we should go ahead with the section. I was terrified, I always pictured having a normal delivery and now everything had changed. However, as I was lying there watching Aiden’s heart rate jump up and down I knew we had made the right decision. I didn’t want something bad to happen just because I wanted a different delivery. About an hour later they came in and wheeled me off to surgery. I was so scared but everyone was so awesome and Jake was right there with me. It didn’t take them long and before I realized what had happened I heard the most amazing sound in the world. I instantly broke into tears and told Jake to go make sure he was okay! Okay he was, 9 lbs even and 22 ½ inches long with a head full of beautiful hair. I could not have been more in love....