Happy Halloween!

We had a fun halloween this year! We had some friends over last Thursday and had a barbeque/pumpkin carving night out of our garage. One of our friends got a big enough pumpkin to put little Gavin in! I think he liked it! He wore his little first Halloween outfit for the last time, he has out grown pretty much all his newborn clothes now. On actual Halloween night, we went to some friends house for dinner and then came home to watch scary movies... Gavin was a little froggy. I just put a froggy jammie on him with his froggy hat that my brother gave him! He did look really cute!

Pumpkin Patch!

This weekend Ren and I took little G to Bates Nut Farm to pick out some pumpkins to carve! This is my favorite time of year... I love pumpkins! Gavin does too can you tell! He was asleep for most of the fun day! He got to wear his "My 1st Halloween" outfit before he grew out of it! I think people thought I was a bad mother when I put him in the pile of pumpkins... He was only there for maybe 3 seconds (just so you know...) So we are gonna have a pumpkin carving party this Thursday! I gotta think of something really creative!

More pictures

So little G is doing really well! Its been a different adjustment for me, going from working full time to a stay at home mom... kinda hard. I feel like once he gets a little older and keeps me a little more busy in the day it will be better. Right now I feel like since all he really does is eat, poop, and sleep, I feel like I dont do much productive work in the day. But... I do like being home with baby G. So I just need to come up with a good Halloween costume for the little bugger... since its next weekend! Any ideas...

I guess I am a little camera happy, but its hard not to be. Ren got a new macro lens for his camera so naturally we have to test it out right... I love this baby! I love that I have actual pictures of him to post instead of ultrasound pictures and videos where you cant really make out the picture you know. So he will be 2 weeks on Monday, and already back up to his birth weight. He really is a sweet little bugger!

Gavin Dale Livingston

People keep asking me when I am going to post so... finally I am getting around to it.

Okay so my doctor told me at my last doctors appt. that I had the choice to be induced on Monday the 28th if I wanted. I told him I would wait, but once Monday came around I WAS SOOO READY! I starting having little contractions the night before, but thought they were still too minimal to go to the hospital. I called my doctors office Monday morning and just said "What are my chances of being induced still today?" I told them I starting having little contractions and the nurse said "uh... your in labor, you need to go get an exam at the hospital."

So Ren and I went to the hospital, got checked out and sent home because I wasn't quite dilated enough to stay. I was a stretchy 2-3. So they put me on a call list to call back in that evening depending on how busy they were and the priority of other people. So I went home and cleaned and vacuumed my whole house and waited till 4 pm to hear back from the hospital. I called them to see what their status was and they told me to come in that evening!

So we got there at 5:30 pm and they checked me out and I was dilated to a 4. They said that because I was progressing on my own, I was more like an augmentation to help push the process along. Dr. Langford told us that because of how Gavin was positioned and the contractions I was having, the Pitocin would respond quicker than normal. So I was able to get the epidural before the pitocin (thank goodness!!!) I never felt a thing it was great! I was on the pitocin for only about an hour and a half because it made my uterus contract too much and was crushing little Gavin. His heart rate dropped to like 5o something, and his oxygen dropped drastically too so they put me on oxygen and just monitored his vitals real close.

At 11:30 pm Dr. Langford came in to break my water because I was still at a 4 and not progressing. He broke my water and the fluid was clear, but I passed some extremely large blood clots with it. (its never comforting to see your doctors face looked shocked...)I kept bleeding and they had to monitor me real close because he thought the placenta seperated too early. So there was nothing really to do but wait, I still dont really know what a contraction feels like... I love the epidural! I slept until they came to check my progress again at 3:30.

The nurse checked me and I was completely dilated +2! She said "Do not push, his head is right there!" So we waiting a little for the doctor to get there, started pushing, and 45 minutes later little Gavin was born! I couldn't it! He is so beautiful! Ren cut the cord and watched the whole thing! I was so proud! He did better than my mom who has been and ICU nurse for 35 years, been a flight nurse, and worked in the cardiatic cath lab for how long... Mom was about to pass out!

Ren and I stayed in the hospital for 2 days and were so happy to come home! Gavin is such a swwet baby! The dogs LOVE him. Marcie is so motherly to him like its her baby. They are all very protective of him its sweet! I am doing well too. Just sore in the whole “basement” area… its like Im paying for the no pain I felt during labor now. I would much rather have this pain now though. I will keep posting fun pictures now too.

Almost there... I hope!

Okay, the doctor said today "Any time... for real this time!" (we'll see) This morning when I went in I was dilated to a 2 now, and 80% effaced and my plug is completely gone now. So he gave me the option to induce on Monday but I told him I would wait and let it just happen. I still have had zero contractions since last week... so he said I might just be the type that will get them all at once and just go into labor. Little Gavin is so dang low in my pelvis, during my exam today he said he had to move his head up to measure me. I thought for sure last night Gavin was going to push on my bladder so hard that it would just pop! Its getting too squished in there for him. So the doctor also predicted between 7-8 lbs now... So what do you think... Before next weekend?

Update

Well... crap. Just got back from the doctor and I am about the same as where I was last week. No progression. He said probably within the week... but we will see. I wasn't very happy about that news cause my contractions have started coming a little more intense, and I have serious back pain and crotch pain... so much pressure... I dont want to go another week! Ug. So... its the waiting game.