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Last week Drew got sick, so we ended up keeping him home for a few days which made for a long week!  David went back to work last Monday so it was certainly an interesting way to break in our new routine with having both boys at home with me.  The most challenging part was having to keep the two of them separated because David and I are terrified of Dylan getting sick with all of these sicknesses floating around.  So… we had Dylan quarantined to our room and Drew had the living room to play with all of his toys in.  Thank goodness, Drew is doing much better and he went back to school today.  We’ve realized that it is best on us all to stay in our usual routine and we are so fortunate that Drew loves his daycare and looks forward to going!  It is such a wonderful place!

This weekend was nice and we had decided that we were going to go on our first outing as a family and pick out a pumpkin to carve for Halloween.  Last week we had noticed that a local landscape place had a large trailer of pumpkins for sale and wanted to go pick one out there.  Once we got out and drove down there, the place was closed… so we were a little upset and our first outing wasn’t as fun as it could have been.  So, then David mentions that he needs to get his oil changed.  So… after all that, our first outing consisted of driving around in the car, pulling up to Texaco Express Lube and sitting in the car watching them change David’s oil.   

How exciting!  HA HA…  Oh well, our intentions were good…

Well… today (October 8th) is my official due date and our baby boy is  now 5 days old.  My sweet husband did a great job of the posts while I was pre-occupied with other things.    As I stated in an earlier post, Dylan certainly arrived in his own fashionable way VERY early on Saturday (10/3) morning.  Looking back at it now, it was one of the most awesome experiences of my life!  I would have never guessed that my water would break or that I would go into labor on my own.  Oh, was I wrong!  At 1:16 on Saturday morning my water broke and the excitement began.  The delivery went much smoother than my delivery with Drew and it was just a great experience!  Drew’s delivery was also a great experience, just much, much longer!  St. Vincent’s Hospital is where I had him, and that hospital is awesome… I truly didn’t want to leave on Monday.  All the nursing staff, doctors, etc were so accommodating and helped with all those things I’ve forgotten over the last 3 years.

We are all back home now and have been working on developing our new routine.  Drew adores Dylan and loves to hold him.  He is already and will continue to be such a great big brother!  Drew is back at daycare and we are working hard to keep him in his normal routine during this time.  He is having some adjustments, but we did expect to have some… and I feel like he is doing better as each day goes by.  We have been making special Drew time in the afternoons when he gets home.

Will have more updates soon…

Here are a few shots of our pregnancy pictures that were taken this past weekend (9/26/2009) prior to Dylan’s arrival.

Lindsey (29) David (28) Drew (3)

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Drew has been a joy to be around. Our nights have not been bad at all and he is feeding just fine. Keep an eye out for our pictures. We are going to take pictures of Drew every week and post them in their own set on Flickr i.e. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3 etc.

I have never been through something like this. It is definitely something I’ll never forget. Probably the most humbling terrifying experience I have ever been through. I cannot even put into words everything that we’ve been through thus far.

As I was typing this, the nurse came in and checked Lindsey. She is now at 4 cm. and station -1 which means the baby has moved even further down. She also explained that textbook-wise, she will dilate 1 cm. per hour which would put us at having the baby at 6:00PM tonight. Now I’m really excited.

So, that’s where we’re at right now. I’ll be posting as things progress.

After that they started her on Patocin which got the contractions going pretty strong. They are now very consistent and God bless her, painful. After a good bit of pain, they gave her a dose of Nubane which is a pain reliever. I don’t think I’ve seen Lindsey so happy and relieved after receiving that dose. The pain completely went away and she is doing much better.
They can give her the Nubane every hour for 3 hours. After that we are hoping and PRAYING that she will have dilated to 4 cm. so that she can then receive the epidural.

To sum it up, everything is going well. Lindsey is resting as much as she can and I am hanging in there. I really don’t have much else to say at this point other than today is the day. Drew is on his way. This will probably be the most rewarding and happiest day of our lives.

We got here at about 7:40 PM or so. We got here a little early so we had to wait a little bit for the nurse to get our room ready. No problem. We got Lindsey settled in, got her hooked up to the monitors and got her IV in and running. She’s doing great.

The plan is this: They have given her some medicine to help her cervix ripen a bit more to prepare it for labor at about 9:00 PM. I’m looking at the monitor right now and she is having some contractions but nothing major yet. They are going to come in at 1:00 AM to check her to see if she has progressed any. If she has, great, we’re on schedule. If not, they will give her another dose to see if it helps her progress a little further.

Tomorrow morning at around 7:00 AM, Dr. Charles Hudson will come in and attempt to break her water assuming that she has dilated enough for him to do so. After that, they will start her on a patocin drip which will give the contractions a kick start to make them more productive.

That’s the plan as of now. I’ll report back tomorrow assuming that nothing happens tonight to let you know where we stand. Everything looks great at this point.