A New Beginning

Yes, we have finally started our family blog. For starters we had our very first baby. Isaac Benjamin Hugh was born on December 4, 2007 @ 7:16pm. He weighed 8lbs 5 oz and was 21 inches long. Labor was long...very long! I started having mild contractions on sunday, they picked up later that night. I thought I was in labor so I went to the hospital and of course they sent me home b/c I wasn't progressing fast enough. So I got my morphine shot and went on my way. That was nice- I could actually sleep. Later that night my contractions started up again and bad!! Dewayne wouldn't let me go back to the hospital because my contractions weren't 3 min's apart ( a criteria the nurse had set for me to return making sure that I was in real labor). I figured if I was going to be up all night with contractions every 4 min's apart I might as well make my time useful, so I finished typing a 10 page paper for school. Around 2am my contractions felt very unbareable (still only 4 min's apart-not 3), so I coerced my mom to take me to the hospital to get another morphine shot. little to my surprise I was in true labor-dilated to a 4, and an hour later at a 5 (Dewayne was not so happy that I went to the hospital with out him- but he wouldn't let me go because my contractions were 4min's apart and not 3). I received my epidural @ about 5am- and man, what a relief! About 13 hours later I pushed for an hour and still no baby. Doctor Judd had to use forceps and magically wiggled him out-suprisingly Isaac doesn't have one scar on his face. Recovering feels a little bit slow, and sleep is pretty much nonexistant at this point, but life is good! Dewayne is so supportive and is taking on the new daddy role like a pro. I couldn't have asked for a better partner on this new and exciting adventure.