Edmund & Evie Clips

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First Eleven Days

Eating Easter Candy with Cousin CC

Skinny "Old Man" Legs

Well, it's so much easier doing this the second time around. Edmund is proving to be a pretty mellow guy so far. Hopefully that continues, but if not that's okay too. He's so sweet and Evie is having some challenges sharing mom and dad. We are giving her lots of love, but it's still proving to be difficult for her. I feel like I betrayed her sometimes by having Edmund, but I know she will be so happy having a little brother to play with six months from now. Keep her in your prayers.

Edmund's Birth Story

Evie isn't too interested in her little brother yet.

(This may be TMI for some of you men out there, so continue reading at your own risk.)

On Wednesday, April 2nd I had my 39 week midwife appointment. They checked me and I was dilated to a 3/4 and 80% effaced. My midwife said that this baby should be here before the end of the weekend. I was super excited to hear the news because I was so uncomfortable and the suspense of meeting my new boy was driving me crazy! As soon as I left the office I started contracting and went into early labor. I continued laboring for about 8 hours, but never transitioned into active labor. Then my labor totally stopped for three hours and started again around 2 am. Ughhhh!!! It was so frustrating! The contractions were strong enough that I couldn't sleep, so I only rested for about two hours that night.

The whole next day was scattered with sporadic contractions, so we decided to go in and see if anything changed. Nothing had changed, but I was totally starting to loose it emotionally and they gave us the option to induce. We decided to go home and get some rest and come back in on Friday morning for induction. My first l & d was extremely long and (IMO) a little traumatic, so I was very concerned that I would have a similar experience with baby boy due to the exhaustion I was already experiencing. They gave me a sleeping pill and I got about 7 hours of sleep that night and then we went to the hospital around 7 am.

I was started on pitocin around 9 am and things really didn't get going until around noon. At about 4pm they checked me and she said I was dilated to a 9 and I couldn't believe it!!! "Who me?" I was absolutely floored that I was almost there! She broke my water and we started delivery around 5:10 pm and about 30 mins later little Edmund was in my arms!!!

I was so blessed to have such a wonderful birth experience. God is so good! In spite all my doubts and fears, He gave me great memories to look back on and a beautiful, healthy and precious son! I am so BLESSED!!!