WOW-it's been awhile!!!

My only excuse is that from 27 weeks on, I had a very difficult pregnancy, and DID NOT want this blog to become a negative venting place!! I was on bedrest, then modified bedrest, and in the hospital 4 times to try to keep this baby in utero-so I apologize to all of those who I have disappointed with my lack of blogging!!! BUT I'M BACK-and will slowly be adding more until I am all caught up to now-which is with my 11 week old little prince.

But to digress...here are some pregnancy photos the night before he was born.

Wow, my belly was HUGE!!

My sweet sweet boy...

I was basically in labor for 3 months, with contractions 5-7 minutes apart!! I couldn't sleep, I couldn't go anywhere because I wasn't supposed to walk, I could basically just sit and pray that this little guy would stay where he was supposed to-and that this wasn't a glimpse of how difficult he might be!! Then when I finally hit the magic 37 weeks and could come off my medication-he got stubborn and decided to stay put!!

My doctor gave me a mercy induction date of August 31, 10 days prior to my due date, and we went in at 5am. At 6 the pitocin started, at 8am I was at 5 and the doctor broke my water, by 8:15am I was at 10 and had JUST received my epidural (which by the way, at that point I was ready to DIE...I didn't know how you ladies could handle "natural" delivery, until I pretty much had to!!) Right after that I started pushing, and 3 contractions later, Jagger was born, at 8:56am!! I guess all he needed was a little "push" to get him moving, because BOY was he ready once we got started!

The poor baby came out looking like a boxer that had lost in the first round though-apparently a very speedy delivery causes bruising and swelling to their little faces-and his was literally BLUE. I kept thinking he wasn't getting any oxygen-poor thing!!! His nose was huge and flat too...We of course loved him immediately, but we were a little hesitant to say he was beautiful. The inside joke was, "what will people say when they see him, since he looks so beat up; they can't say how adorable, cute or handsome he is!?" Well, our theory was correct, when a nurse came in later to check on us, she took one look at him, and said, "Well, he's ALL boy!!"

Eric was wonderful, and let me nearly break all of his fingers when things progressed so quickly. I think I scared him-I am usually pretty tough, and that was NOT my finest hour!! He was pretty worried about how much pain I was in...I think we both used a few choice words with the anesthesiologist, to let him know he needed to speed things along!! ( I believe mine was a long, drawn out F bomb, or so I was told later!!)

The sad part is that because things went sideways so quickly, we weren't really prepared with the camera or video camera. Eric did get some pictures right after he was born, but none with me in the delivery room, and none with the doctor-TOTAL BUMMER!!! But the amount we have taken since then should more than make up for it! He looked absolutely huge when he was born, but looking back now, he was a tiny little peanut!! Jake came to the hospital with Eric's parents, and we had told them to take their time-as an induction could take a while. Little did we know...so when the doc broke my water, we called them to tell them to hurry it up-and Jake got to come in and give me a quick kiss right before I started to push. As he tells it, "there is NO WAY I wanted to be in the room, I would be scarred for life!!" Yeah, he would have been!

Jagger August Schurz 8lbs, 5 oz-20.5 inches long

A very proud Daddy!!

A very happy big brother~!
Yep, he was THAT blue for 2 days!!!

The best part was his "Friar Tuck" hairline-you can kind of see it in this pic, but he had long, black hair that went all the way around the base of his head...TOO FUNNY!!!

Daddy was incredibly proud to say that he changed Jagger's very first diaper...too bad they've been few and far between since then!! =)