And his name is....Mason!

Well Baby Boy finally has arrived and much to his parent's surprise and excitement a mere 11 days early! He came into this crazy world at 3:27pm weighing in at 7lbs 4oz and 20.5 inches long. So far he has been a very good baby...even during labor the staff said he was making his own way into the world. Somehow i don't forsee this always being the case!

It all started on 8.25.10 (wed). I had a busy day with taking Mia to the vet for her yearly checkup...she is doing great by the way...weighing in at 14.2 pounds...she makes Mason feel real light! I had ran some other errands and spent about 2.5 hours at the grocery store stocking up for when Mason would arrive. We joked about how we had hoped not the have to go grocery shopping until after his arrival and that because of how i had not really been progressing i would most likely be induced in Sept. Then Derek took a picture of me for the "38 week post" (which i was going to post on Thursday) and made the comment that I really looked like i had dropped. Here I am at 38 weeks and 2 days @ 10:30pm...

Well exactly 15 min later I was on the computer just checking a few things before heading to bed when I felt and heard something very strange from down below, like pop, but it was painful. I honestly thought at first he had developed the ability to punch my pubic bone...then i realized that my water had broken in a very big way! I ran to the bathroom yelling that I think my water just broke and was in amazement how much there was and was still coming! So we called the doctor and off to the hospital we went!...Good thing Derek had finished packing his hospital bag the night before!

one last picture before we head to the hospital!

Feeling good on adrenaline at 12:30am at Triage at WMH...if only i could hold that face the whole time!

at 10cm and waiting for the doctor to arrive.

After we got through traige to confirm that all this fluid really was my water breaking (like there was another option?!?!) we got settled into a room. I walked the halls for about 30 min and then got set up with an IV drip for fluids. I was at a "tight 1.5cm". I must say i never really thought i was having contractions until this point. They actually became pretty regualar pretty quickly, coming every 2-3 min lasting from anywhere from 20sec to a min. I could not sit in the bed or lay in the bed, it was far too painful when a contraction came. So i resorted to stading a lot, sitting on the birthing ball, taking a jacuzzi tub bath, having lavender smelling oils available, and swaying my hips. Derek was a HUGE trooper though all of this, getting me anything i needed and quickly. It was kinda comical to me to realize everytime he went to sit down i started to have another and he would jump up and start massaging my lower back...At 5:30am they started a low dose of Pitocin to kick the dilation train into a higher gear because i was not moving to quickly. Around 7:30AM i asked for some IV pain meds and loved those...it really took the edge off so that i could get about an hour's worth of sleep..not quality sleep but some. About an hour and half later i asked for some more hoping to be able to get as far as i could without an epidural...Well this round of pain meds did nothing and my anxiety started to get the best of me. I started to lose focus and all i wanted was the epidural. The epidural for me was probably the most frightning part of this whole experince. But with Derek and the most amazing labor nurse i could have asked for i got through it tears and all...to be honest not sure how their hands were not broken as i had to stay still during a contraction. As i think every woman says about the epidural man...I loved him and even verbalized this to him and apparently made his day. The epidural kicked in right away and it allowed me to sleep for the majority of the next 4 hours. During those 4 hours i was able to dilate from 3cm to 10cm! I had to call the nurse in just before 2pm to let her know that i was contracting and thinking that i was, how shall we say, expelling some bum matter...well that had her running into the room immediately because she thought Mason's head might be coming out! Thankfully it was not, but it was GO TIME! We waited for Dr. Young to get there so we could get down to work. Started pushing at 2:30pm and Mason joined the big bad world at 3:27pm. I was amazingly surprised at how focused i could get to relax in between contractions...and a big thanks to my "ice chip man" Derek would was so ever supportive.

Mason's very first picture taken!

please feel free to hover your eyes over the baby

Thanks Dr. Young!

My very first bath!

Hi Great Auntie Kris!

Meeting Grandma and Grandpa Umnus

We got married when the Packer's were on, why not have a baby when the Packer's are on!

our little angel

sleepy time

put up your duke's!

Mommy and Me!

his first sucking the thumb experience (that we witnessed)...and Derek could not be prouder that he did it left handed! :)...and also giving us the middle finger...hmm not our child!?

We came home on Saturday around 5:30pm after waiting all day for the baby doctor to come discharge Mason. Oh well we got an extra meal out of the deal i guess! Mason is doing great so far. He is healthy with no issues. He was slow to start breast feeding, but doing much better now. He was doing a lot of spitting up and vomiting those first few days. So much that they even had to suction the little guy! It has continued but to a lesser extent now. The doctors feel that he just wasn't able to expel enough of the amniotic fluid at birth. He for the most part is a content baby, but last night gave us a run for our money. Every time we went to lay him down in the bassinet, he would wake up in a tizzy...let's just say the sunrise was nice! Oh well, I am hoping that this will not turn into a nightly ritual...Well off to tend to the little one...enjoy the pictures below.

Getting ready to go home...and we thought the outfit would be too small! HA!

Bye Bye Waukesha Memorial room 3708!

So tiny!

Mia and Mason meeting for the first time...he's not to interested it seems.

his first diaper change at home!

Our Little Cutie

Meeting Grandma Pam

all smiles

The Dinner Club all came over on Sunday night to welcome Mr. Mason and we got a picture of all 6 of the Dinner Club Kids...Thanks for all the well wishes guys!