Baby

Meeting Baby Joseph for the 1st time

It all started with some little cramps on Saturday evening, October 16th. We went out to eat with some friends at Rudy's BBQ, then went to Joey's soccer game at 9:30pm. We got home from the game and I was cleaning up the gameroom a bit and doing some housework. I got in bed at midnight, only to wake up about 1am and my water had broke! I told Joey it's time to go to the hospital! He loaded my 4 bags of stuff, plus his one bag. I grabbed a towel and off we went!
At the hospital they made sure it was really my water that broke (it was) and I got in a room a bit after 2am. At that time I was dilated to a 1. My doctor wasn't on call, so the doctor on call ordered me to start pitocin. I wanted the epidural before the pitocin, so I got the epidural around 4:45am, and the pitocin started about 5am. At about 8:30am I was already dilated to a 9 !
My parents and Joey's parents made it to the hospital around 9am, they got to come in and say hi before I started pushing. It was exciting and nice to see them before baby came.
The birth itself was rough and I had a pretty hard time. Baby was face up and had the cord wrapped all around him. I pushed for two and a half hours and the baby was just not wanting to come out. The doctor gave me the choice of using the suction to help or go for a C-section. After trying so hard for so long, I didn't want to give up and go for a C-section, so I told her to use the suction. After pushing about 5 or 6 more times and the doctor using the suction about 4 times...Baby Boy Joseph was born!! It was amazing having him in my arms for the first time. Truly God's miracle. I have a long road to recovery, but I am doing fine and slowly healing. Baby has already been to the doctor 3 times for jaundice and had his little heel stuck twice. But he is over the jaundice and will be seen for his 2 week check up on Monday.
My mom and Joey had been taking great care of both of us these past 2 weeks. I think I would have just died without their help and support. I am so thankful for the friends who have brought us dinner and for all the prayers from everyone.
We are so excited to begin our life with our sweet little boy.

Joseph Louis Boeller Jr

Born 10-17-10
11:09 am
6 lbs 5 oz
20 1/4 long

Due Date

Well, tomorrow is my official due date 10/15/10 !
Here are the questions I get several times a day...I am asked if I've had the baby, or if I feel any different, or if I'm going to be induced... Well, I haven't had the baby, I do not feel any different, and I'm not planning on being induced, no pains, no nothing! I am still working and plan to until the baby decides to arrive. My next doctor's appt is on Tuesday. As of this past Tuesday I still wasn't dilated any. They did an ultrasound and it showed the baby has enough fluid in there, and it is about 6 pounds. Also, the baby's legs are apart and in a "frog like" position. So unlike the picture up there of the 39 week fetus, my baby is frog legged : ) The baby will come when it's ready. God knows just when the perfect time is and that is when it will happen!

Date Night

Since I really do think this weekend is our last weekend baby-free, we went on a date Friday! Joey took me to a Japanese Steak House, the same one he took me to on my birthday back in Feb when I found out I was pregnant. It is Habachi style where they cook in front of you on a grill. We ended up sitting beside a sweet couple with a 4 month old. So of course the whole dinner we talked about babies and birthing! After dinner we went and had ice cream then rented a movie. It was a nice evening out on the town! Last night Joey grilled and we played checkers and drank milkshakes. It has been "our" weekend together! Today we went to mass and now are cleaning the house. I swept and mopped, Joey is cleaning baseboards and all the black marks off the walls.

Off to the doc on Tuesday, hopefully will have a baby by the end of the week!!

And one more little shower : )

Across the hall from were I work in the breast center is Outpatient Imaging. I used to register patients for them before I transferred across the hall to mammo. My sweet co workers over there threw me a nice little luncheon today. Yummy food, cute cupcakes, baby gifts, and even a few babies were there! It was a nice time and now I really am all set for baby! In the morning at 9am is my appt! Let's see what Dr. Reed has to say!

Brasil and new countertops!

Poppy just got back from Brasil and brought back Baby an outfit! Of course it had to be soccer style : ) We love it, thank you Poppy!

Also, we got new granite countertops and a new sink this weekend. My kitchen is beautiful! I love it!