Well its been a while but I'm back and happy to announce that little Jack Kong has arrived!!! He decided to come into the world at 39 weeks, making him exactly one week early :) Today my little bundle is 2 weeks old!!
We are so thankful and extremely happy to have him in our lives, who would have thought you could love something so quickly and so so much! He is just precious and I could stare at him all day! Which is pretty much what I do since all I do is feed him and watch him sleep all day! We've been super lucky so far, he's a really good baby :)
So it began early morning about 4:50am I woke up because I was having contractions. I still wasn't sure at that point whether these were the real deal or not since I'd been having false labor contractions for days now. Then they slowly got more intense so I began to time them. Now they say they should be 5 minutes apart for an hour. Mine weren't all that consistent, however they were more regular than they'd ever been before. So at about 8:20am I called my doctor who told me to hang out at home for another hour and then go to the hospital. So we did and to our surprise I was 6 cm dilated upon arrival. So with that said I was staying and officially going to meet my little guy that day!!! I wasn't really nervous, I was more or less taking it minute by minute and dreading each contraction since they definitely got worse as time went on. We got to the hospital at about 10am and was put in a little exam room, hooked up to a machine with a monitor around my belly to monitor the baby's heartbeat - this is where they told me how dilated I was. After this was determined I was moved to the delivery room where I remained. I opted for the epidural and oh how thankful I was to get that! It didn't hurt at all, in fact the IV they put in my hand was way more painful than the epidural. I just remember how weird my legs felt initially once it took effect (but quickly got used to it), they were totally numb yet I could still move them. Contractions were showing up on the monitor next to my bed and apparently I was having some pretty intense ones but I seriously didn't feel a thing!! It was very pleasant and I really couldn't have asked for a more enjoyable birthing experience. In fact I'm not really sure why all women don't opt to have an epidural, there is no risk to the baby, the drugs do NOT reach the baby, and every doctor I've talked to has said the same thing.....that the only real risk is that it doesn't take effect so you end up feeling all the pain.
Anyway, Johnny played music on the iPod which was there for us if we wanted to use it. Jack was born to a Jack Johnson station on Pandora...hehe. Johnny was GREAT throughout the entire process, my doctor was awesome, as well as the two labor nurses in the room with me. We literally just chatted the entire time, except for me when it was time to push. Then all I could think about was getting this baby out, since I was exhausted. And I figured out that they had stopped the epidural drip pretty early on so I started to feel lots of pressure when a contraction was coming on before it even showed up on the monitor. I believe I started pushing around 2pm and Jack was born at 3:40pm. All I can say is there is nothing like it when your baby is out and you can see him and hear him, and feel him. It was so emotional and happy, and definitely something I would do again.
We opted to have the baby room with us in my room which is something I'm super glad we did. I can't imagine having him down the hall in the nursery. I would constantly be thinking about him and wanting him there with me. Johnny spent every night with me. He was a champ for sleeping on that reclining chair next to my bed.
I will try to post more often, there are so many things I'd like to say to new moms or moms to be.
Here are some pics, of course more to come!!
We are READY!!!!!
Isn't he just so precious??!!
Proud Daddy, they are so adorable :)
Johnny up with Jack in the middle of the night at the hospital
Getting ready to go home!!!! YAY I couldn't wait to get him home, you are stuck in your room while at the hospital and I just wanted to be able to walk around if I wanted.
All strapped in, we are headed home with our baby boy!
