I can't believe everything that's happened since my last post...I gave birth (finally:), entered the world of euphoric yet sleep deprived motherhood and have a beautiful one month old baby boy - Malachi James Leichner. I had joked that I would go into labor on Thanksgiving day because Malachi would take after his father and not want to miss any of the food - well surprise surprise I was right:) I had contractions all throughout Thanksgiving dinner at my parent's house, and then they started to get more regular around 7:30. Aaron and I timed them for the next hour and decided we should go ahead and go to the hospital. We told our family to wait for us to call - I wasn't sure if they would admit me or not. We checked in at the Wesley Birthcare Center at 9:15pm and they said that they were going to keep us! It was such a strange feeling...knowing that sometime in the next day I was going to be able to hold my son. They put us in our room and within the next hour or so I had my epidural (greatest thing EVER!) and they broke my water. Then for the next 10 hrs I was on pitocin trying to keep my contractions regular. I couldn't feel a thing - which was awesome:) But it was a bit of a long night. Both Aaron and my family's were camped out in the waiting room, and Aaron and my mom were with me. Aaron went ahead and napped at my request, and mom and I played cards with Monica - the best nurse ever:)
Finally at around 6:50am Dr. Kauffman was there and we started the wonderful world of pushing! Once again can I say that the epidural is THE greatest thing ever in the world - I couldn't feel a thing! And not gonna lie, it was really really strange having absolutely no control over my legs - I almost kicked Dr K in the face at one point and had no idea...oops. I ended up pushing for 2 hrs and we had a good time in between - told jokes, heard stories ~ it was good times! The last 30 minutes it actually got uncomfortable and I was pretty worn out by this point. But finally at 8:54am on November 28th Malachi entered the world. It was...incredible. It still seems pretty surreal honestly - that I've given birth. I have a son! That's craziness!
The weeks to follow were pretty intense, and will require a whole other post and I am out of time:) We're off to celebrate New Year's at my parents ~ here's a thank you to 2008, a year full of surprises, miracles, life lessons and joys. I can only imagine what 2009 may bring - God bless you all and your new year!
