ladydrace | I'm back! Haz baby!

Hello again people! As I'm sure most of you have realized by now, my absence these past few days has been due to birth! Finally! The whole story is long and probably excruciating, so I'll just give a quick run down of events here and throw in a few pics.

Monday afternoon the doctors decided to start off the birth with a labour inducing drip. I cannot even begin to mention just how many holes got poked in me during that day. But it was a LOT! Contractions started off nicely and I stayed with them for about 6 hours before asking for pain management. Since they had put in a spinal catheter earlier in case of c-section, I used that, as it was convinient. Despite a few more hours of contractions, my uterus was just not preparing properly. I never opened more than a single cm or so, and that's just not enough for any kind of birth. So in the end, I had a calmly prepared c-section and after so much waiting and stressing, 01.42 AM tuesday morning, Green Pea was born.

After 3 more days in the hospital, to monitor for after effects of the c-section and check out baby for signs of complications with my anxiety meds, we were finally allowed home today. I don't think I've ever been more relieved in my whole life.

So now I proudly introduce to you all.... Sejr! Our beautiful baby boy! 51 cm long, 3780 grams heavy and perfectly healthy from the first second.

And now, the thing you've all been waiting for.... PICTURES!!!

Fresh from delivery. Look at that round tummy! A little upset, but hey, who can blame him?

And one more, just because he's lovely and new, and not quite so upset here.

5 mins later, dressed and happy in my woozy arms. I'm still recovering from the anesthesia but deliriously happy. And look, he's sucking on my finger!