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Hospital Pics!

These are the pictures that were taken at the hospital!

He's here!

Sorry I have been out for a while, I have a good reason! We had a baby! I am going to share the birth story and then some pics! Friday and Saturday I felt like crap. I felt like I had the flu, but didn't have a fever. I knew it was pre-labor stuff going on. Sunday morning, I woke up feeling much better! I began having contractions, very mild, and not tim-eable around 9am. They lasted all day, but nothing serious or different than anything that I had had before in this pregnancy. Around 6 pm, we were at Josh's parents house for family dinner and I noticed that I was leaking some fluid. I called my midwife and she said it was probably just part of my mucus plug. I kept leaking for 2 hours and around 7:30, started having some pretty serious contractions. We decided to go ahead and head home because I was in pain. My contractions were not time-able then either, they were anywhere from 1-4 min apart. That was confusing me, but I went ahead and called my midwife again to tell her I was still leaking fluid. She said it was probably my water and to call when we wanted to head up to the hospital. We were actually already in the car and turned around to drop the girls back off at Josh's parents house. We went home to get the rest of our stuff and it hit hard. The contractions were out. of. control and really close together. We decided to go ahead and go to the hospital and called my midwife at 9:15 pm and said we were on our way. We got to the hospital at 9:45 pm, they checked me and I was 6 cm dilated. From then on, it got really intense, my contractions were 1-2 min apart. Josh was trying to fill up the pool and I was sitting on the birthing ball with my midwife next to me helping me through the contractions. It was probably around 10:40 pm when the contractions were pretty much non-stop and I began feeling the baby move down more. I did sort of freak out at that point, because I knew I was going to have to push him out (remember that I was induced and had epidurals with the girls!). I got dizzy and anxious, and was on the verge of tears, my midwife was awesome and helped me up onto the bed and had me lay on my side and rubbed my leg and helped me breathe so that I could calm down. About 5 or so min later, I felt it was time to push. She checked me and I was 10 cm and the baby was right there. I got off the bed and into the 1/2 full pool (Josh had some issues with the connections we had, so he was just standing there with the shower head trying to SLOWLY fill it up! He's great!) and began pushing. It was about 3 pushes later, and he was here! Let me tell you, that was painful. I would totally do it again though! Definitely the most pain I had ever experienced in my life, but it was worth it! Ezekiel Joshua Brock was born on Feb 7, at 10:53 pm. He was 8 lbs 2 oz and 20 3/4 inches long (and they said he would be my smallest!). He had the cord wrapped around his neck, so he was really purple when he came out, scarily purple, but he was breathing and crying, so that was good. My midwife actually had to loosen the cord and let his body come through it because he was coming out so quickly she didn't have time to get it over his head. He didn't even have a misshapen head because of how quick he came out!

We have been having so much fun with him! The girls love him to pieces and he gets lots of kisses! He eats all. the. time! So far, he is a great sleeper, only wakes up to eat and then goes right back to sleep! He is wonderful! Here are some pics!

My thoughts...

I love this picture!


This is sort of a random post.

I can't wait to meet my baby. I wish he was ready to come...today! I am only 15 days away from my due date. I had contractions the other night for 6 hours...not very consistent, but they were quite intense...definitely reminded me of the pain of labor. I really hope they caused my body some progression. If they did, then they were worth it, if not, I will not be happy about that. I go to see my midwife in the morning. I am really hoping to hear her say that it will probably be sometime in the next week when we get to meet our baby! Josh is ready too! He gets to take 2 weeks off of work once Ezekiel comes and every day that he has to go to work, he doesn't want to, which isn't normal for him, he loves his job! We are all sooo ready! Last night, Riley leaned into my belly and said, "Baby Zeke, you need to come out tonight, you are taking too long!" It was cute!

I am realizing how helpful she is going to be when he comes. She already helps Aydia out so much. Riley can pretty much do everything for herself, so it is really helpful to me that she can help Aydia do things too! Things like, getting a snack for them, turning on the bathroom light for Aydia to potty, getting the drawers open in their dresser so they can get dressed (this sounds weird, but I got a dresser from a thrift store that is pretty old and the drawers are really difficult to open)! I am sure she is going to be super helpful to have around when this baby comes!

Aydia is learning a lot these days. We are trying to learn how to put our own clothes on, of course, she is potty trained now, that is amazing! Sometimes I think she is having a hard time with the transition of being independent. She seems to like to rely on people to do things for her and help her do things. We have had a bit of an attitude because of this lately. I really hope that it doesn't happen more when the baby comes. I am sure it will though. I guess I should start praying for patience now in order to deal with this!

Every day, I think about what this baby is going to look like. Who he is going to look like. I really hope he looks like his daddy! I picture him with brown hair and blue eyes (like his daddy!). Who knows though, we have every eye color and hair color in our extended family, so he could have any compilation of them! I wonder if he will look like Riley or Aydia!

That was so random and probably boring to most people, but these are the things going on in my head these days!