John's arrival!

John was born on 8/8/11 at 3:37am. What an amazing day it was! The labor went really fast this time once I actually started labor. I went to L&D at 6:30pm on Sunday. The plan was to give me a cytotec pill and then start pitocen in the next morning. Well it turns out that I was already in labor when I arrived even if it was early labor. I had progressed from 1cm to 2.5-3cm. I was having semi-regular contractions. John was doing great. The nurse told me that I could either go ahead with the cytotec or wait for the pitocen in the morning. She was afraid that if I got the cytotec that labor would commence pretty strong since I was well on my way anyway. I told her I was there to labor and to have a baby so I saw no reason to wait. Normally they have to give the cytotec every 4 hours to help ripen the cervix. When she first checked me I was already 75% thinned so I only needed the one dose. They never even had to give pitocen at all. John was ready and so was I! I started getting very uncomfortable at around 12:45am and she rechecked me. I was around 4cm then and 80% thinned. I requested the epidural. That was finished by 1:30am. She rechecked me again right after getting that and I was at 6cm. This was exactly where I was after getting the epidural with Audrey. Only 45minutes later, I told the nurse that I was back in pain and wondered if I was complete. Sure enough, I was at 10cm and ready to push! My waters still had not broken. The nurse could see the bag and was amazed. Once the doctor was woken up, they broke the waters and then I started pushing. I had some trouble pushing his head under the pelvic bone so the doctor helped with the vacuum. It left a spot on John's head, poor thing! I pushed for 35minutes and he was here. He was perfect and started crying right away. He also peed on the doctor as he was wiping him off. He peed again once they got him to the warmer. All of this before they could even way him. He weighed in at 8lbs 2ounces and 20inches long. Big boy for sure! He was nearly a pound heavier than his sister! A. just loves her little brother. She is such a great big sister. I couldn't be prouder of both of them. We both were released from the hospital on Wednesday. John lost down to 7lbs 12 ounces. We went to his first pediatrician appt that Friday and he had gained up to 7lbs 13 ounces. We are breast feeding so it was good to see that he was gaining weight! He is doing just great and is such a good baby. He hardly cries at all. He is only a week old, though. He does love his sleep which is nice. I hope he keeps this up!
Will add some pics as soon as I get them added to the computer!