Our Littlest Buddy

I thought since I hardly ever post to the blog, I may as well use my spare time now to do a post. Ha!

Our littlest buddy, Caeden Elijah, entered the world March 31. We are so excited to finally, and officially, be a family of four.

I went into active labor around 1:30 Thursday afternoon. Scott and I were on our way out to eat lunch. I had been having tons of false labor in the days and weeks preceeding, and at this point I wasn't sure today would be any different. However as we were eating I noticed the contractions were beginning to feel "different." I mentioned to Scott that perhaps we should start timing a few. They were coming every 5 minutes. By the end of lunch, they had moved to every 3 minutes.

We went home, and I decided to do the "lay-down-and-see-if-the-contractions-go-away" test. They didn't. After some time Scott suggested I should take a shower to distract myself and get ready just in case this really, really was the real thing (I still doubted in the back of my mind). Something about the shower kicked things up a notch because then the contractions were getting much harder. We got to the hospital around 5:00, and by the time someone came into the room to check me about 45 minutes later, I was already 8-9 cm dialated. My wonderful midwife arrived about 45 minutes after that at which point I was STILL only 8-9 cm. She broke my water which made things much more intense, but it also progressed things. I think my words were, "I really hope this is going to be over soon." A little less than an hour later including 20 minutes of pushing, Caeden was born!

He is perfect, and we left the hospital the next evening because we were both doing so well. I like being a second time parent so much more than a first time parent. Everything is easier. There is so much less stress than I had the first time around. Caeden is nursing like a champ and sleeping pretty much all the time. :)

It took Micaiah a day or two to warm up to him, but now he is getting much more used to having a baby brother around now. He will frequently sign "baby" and ask to see him. He says his name with a repeated hard "c" sound. He will prance into Caeden's room saying "c c c c" and try to look in the crib for him. It is just precious.