Baby Boy~

Welcome home baby Marc!

Here's the birth story in a nutshell:

Arrived at hospital to be induced at 10:30 am.

11:30 am Pitocin started- lowest dose.

By 1:30 pm contractions are coming and are strong, but active labor hasn't kicked in yet.

1:30-6-ish pm- hanging out... midwife had some family issues she needed to deal with, I had a great nurse taking care of me, but never saw my midwife until 6-ish pm. I totally got ripped off from having a midwife delivery (she delivered baby, but wasn't there during labor)... but oh well. Nurse kept upping the pitocin until I was at 20, the highest dose. So pitocin going from 11:30-8:18- that's a lot of Pitocin! (ouch)

6-ish pm- midwife finally shows up and breaks my water.

Hard contractions follow, I am in immediate active labor.

7:30- epidural is given. Chloe loved watching that whole thing! ew

8 pm- ready to push!

8:18 pm, baby boy is born: 7 lbs. 9 oz. 19 inches long.

Chloe suited up and helped deliver the baby along with midwife. An experience of a lifetime at 17 yrs. old!

Labor!
Fun stuff.

Chloe the nurse.

Funny thing- my first nurse was the mother of 4 girls and then a little boy at the end, her oldest was a freshman at Utah State about to go to nursing school. Funny how similar our families were. This nurse loved Chloe and gave her little nursing jobs to do.

During the epidural, the guy had Chloe standing by his side and talked to her about the process of doing an epidural. She thought it was too cool.

The midwife had Chloe in scrubs and gloves and was standing right next to her as baby was born. We have that on video and her face is totally priceless as the baby's head is crowning! Once Marc was born, midwife handed him to Chloe, then she place him on me and then got to cut the cord.

Nurse Chloe!

This was the waiting time of the day. Around noon to 6 pm we sat around. My nurse kept upping the Pitocin and such, but active labor never set in until my water was broken ( 1 1/2 hours after water broke, baby was born... SO, if midwife had been available, I would have had baby in early afternoon! sigh!)

Waiting-waiting....

I don't know when this was taken! Moments before the birth, I think!

Blond! He's my baby for sure!! :)

Daddy calling up the family to tell them the big news while holding his new son.

4 big sisters watching their brother get his first bath.

Oldest and youngest.

She kept telling him that day... "I helped birth you!"

Another one of Haley's famous cakes. She made this one night and they all brought it to the hospital and we celebrated Marc's birth!

Then after the family left, I noticed quite a lot of chocolate cake crumbs on the floor of my hospital room.... I liked seeing them there as I was alone and up with the baby all that next night! It gave me comfort!

No longer the youngest!

At first Lindsay wasn't super excited about holding the baby. The first night the girls arrived he was crying a lot and was being given his first bath.

Lindsay quietly came up to me that night and said:

"It's ok, Mom. I don't have to hold him tonight. I can wait until he's one."

Nat is now the official middle child!

Once she held him, she loved it. Now she holds him all the time.

I call this picture:

"He who has many Mothers"

His going home dinosaur outfit.

The complete Lawson Family.

Ready to head on home...

First car ride!

Welcome baby boy!

Oh how we love you!!

All done... last day of being prego~

I had Haley take this picture of me last night while we were watching American Idol. :)

39 weeks prego....

Today is my last day of being pregnant. Yesterday I was cleaning blinds and thought today would be a good day to wash windows, but I woke up exhausted... so no window washing today.

I will write in my journal and reflect and think about this very last pregnancy of mine.

And I'll do laundry.

But no windows.

As of right now, I am scheduled to go into the hospital at 6am tomorrow morning, giving my baby a Feb. 18 birthday. He will share his special day with his cousin, Jeri Lynn.

My BFF Denise says she thinks it'll be today. We shall see!

Anyhow, it's been a fabulous 9 months. The most fun pregnancy ever. Having my 4 girls so involved and sooo excited and so into it has made it the best. We are eager to meet our little guy, and I, well, I guess I am ready to be done with this phase of my life! I am turning 38 in a few days, for cryin' out loud! We all gotta be done sometime, right?! Now's a good time.

Got a new baby coming, my oldest baby leaving.... fun times are ahead, I am sure.

The end is near!

Had my appointment today.

I made progress! Currently I am 2cm dilated, 70% effaced and baby's head is at -1 station. 0 station means his head is engaged, so he is getting nice and low.

I am hoping to go into labor on my own, that's my plan! But if I don't, I am scheduled to be induced on Thursday, Feb. 18. There is a possibility that I can go Tuesday morning for induction, but I won't know about that until Monday afternoon. SO, next week for sure!

I was at a 2 when my water broke with Natalie... so my body is ready to go. I hope I can go into labor on my own and this weekend would sure be a great time... I am keeping busy. I was on the treadmill for 30 min. today and then went crazy with the girls as we cleaned the basement. Yesterday I did my pantry, fridge and freezer. I am going crazy and then my body is paying for it.. my poor, aching back. I feel as though I have no control over my body and such, but I DO have control over my house! My poor family.... :)

Tonight Gene and I are going out to dinner! I am very much looking forward to that.

So, good news. I'm well on my way to having this baby and the end is in sight with Thursday's induction. I am a happy camper!

:)

Where oh where is my baby? :)

Gene has to keep reminding me that I'm not even DUE yet! Feb. 23 is one due date, Feb. 17 is the ultrasound due date! How about today for the due date?! :0)

On Monday I got a lovely shot of morphine to put me out. The midwives called it "Medicinal Rest". Their hopes were that my body could get a really good rest, regroup, then I would wake up and go into active labor! Nope! However, I did sleep. I slept on Monday from 10:30 am to 6 pm, then went back to bed at 9 pm- 7 am. It was heaven. I took 2 naps that next day, too! Because my nights are so bad ( I cramp and have contractions and hurt) I was given a lovely prescription for some other drugs and they are helping me get some sleep. I can handle all the pain during the day, I cannot handle no sleep and still be the mommy of 4 children and all that fun stuff. So for now I am a VERY happy camper! Give me sleep at night, I can handle the days, this baby boy can come when he's good and ready! I had a good 5 hour stretch of sleep last night and today I cleaned 2 bathrooms, including mopping the floors and washing towels! Ok, now I'm kinda pooped out, but it was really cool having that energy.

Baby Marc will come when he's ready! I am at peace with that. I see my midwife tomorrow at 2:10 pm and I'll see if I've made any progress.

Until then! Think happy baby boy thoughts for me!

:)

No baby yet!

No baby yet, but it's getting really close.  Headed to the hospital last night to get checked out.  I've been experiencing tons of cramping and such so my midwife wanted to check me out.  I haven't progressed since Tuesday, I am 70% effaced and dilated to 1.  They monitored me for an hour and sent me home.  I knew I wasn't in labor.  I was just concerned with all the cramping.  You see... I do early labor for about a week and a half before going into labor. It's painful and not fun.  I have done this with the last 3 pregnancies.  I thought this time around I would know enough to not go into the hospital early- but guess not!  Oh well... it's any day now.... I'll keep ya posted.

Wish me luck...