the story of Grayson

Our little family of 3 is now home and settled! I thought that before I forget all the details of my labor/delivery, I better share them! So sit back & relax, here is the story of how we met the most handsome little boy in the world...

Grayson must have known how impatient I was being. He was PROMPT! I did my 40 week post on Saturday afternoon & only a few hours later my water broke in our kitchen! Ben was working until 10 that night so I sent him a "911" text and he scurried on home. By the way, your water breaking? ew.

The picture above is my last picture at our house before we left for the hospital. I was READY!! We got to the hospital at 7:30 & went straight upstairs. I explained what had happened (ya know...gigantic gush of water soaking my kitchen floor) and do you know what the test results were?? negative. Seriously?! They said it was possible that I had 2 sacks of water and that only the first one had broken. My awesome nurse knew I was ready to have that baby & convinced the doctor to let me stay overnight to see what would happen.
I got an ambien to sleep (yay!) and got up around 1 in the morning to use the bathroom and of course water #2 broke. Enter contractions & a fuzzy recollection of actual events thanks to the ambien. Contractions were not horrible and neither was the epidural. Go time!
I was in labor all night & started pushing at 10 am on Sunday. I was already exhausted before I started pushing...like falling-asleep-in-the-midst-of-labor tired. I pushed for 2 solid hours with zero progress and finally told my nurse "no, thank you." He was too big and was not going to come out of there on his own! C-Section it was....followed by a 10 minute panic attack/tearfest because I was so mad I couldn't have my baby my way.

The C-section was not as bad as I thought it would be. I remember being deliriously tired & it did not hit me that I would meet our little man in the next few minutes.

The second I heard that little scream I started crying. I remember everyone talking about what a big baby he was. He had big lungs, too:) I love this picture of my little bird screaming his head off...really shows what a long day we had already had! Ha!

Most favorite moment of my life was meeting Grayson. He was absolutely perfect. Love at first sight.

A very proud daddy!

our BIG boy weighed 9lbs 1 oz and was 21 inches long..no wonder he wouldn't fit!

Grayson is beautiful with dark blue eyes and blonde hair...little surfer baby!

Our new family of 3 (or 6 if you include the pups!)

We are so happy to be home & out of that hospital. We are busy enjoying our baby & learning all about him. He is doing wonderful...he weighed 8lbs 5 oz today at his first pediatrician visit & has NO jaundice-yay! Thanks for all of your sweet words & encouragement...we really appreciate it! Hard to believe that this baby is finally here!