Baby Coakley Has Arrived!!!!

I'll write his birth story on a different blog post, this is just meant to show some pictures, share a few details and and naming video Rowdy and I made. For those who didn't know, last night, December 16th we went in for them to start the induction with the cervidil. Cervidil is not known for starting labor for first time moms and usually only works in 10-15% of recurrent mothers in inducing labor, its strictly for ripening the cervix. Well, it put me right into labor, woo! So hard labor started at about 9:30pm last night. My main goal was to have a natural childbirth, but come 3am I decided that an epidural was the path for me, so I got one. Rowdy was AMAZING the entire time. He was so supportive and helpful. I started pushing at 8:15am this morning, December 17th and four pushes later at 8:29am he was out!!! He's got some lungs on him, he screamed for about an hour and a half straight. He has been such a joy to kiss and cuddle and look at. He is just perfect! And I have fallen even more in love with my husband watching him love his son, he is such a great dad already and I adore that about him. So here are some pictures and the naming video, enjoy!!!

Click this link: Naming Baby Coakley

Passing 40

How Far Along: 40 Weeks

Total weight gain/loss: 20lbs

Maternity Clothes: yep

Stretch Marks: nope!

Best Moment This week? It my due date, so im hoping he's here soon

Miss Anything? yeah, a baby!

Movement: yes, but he is slowing down a bit, but when he stretches out it can be painful

Food cravings? clementines

Anything making you queasy or sick? Not really

Have you started to show yet? Undeniably preggers

Gender? Boy

Labor Signs? yep, contractions, sometimes very regular, but still no baby

Belly button in or out? out

Wedding rings on or off? On and loose

Happy or moody most of the time? Stressed, anxious, exhausted but happy

Looking forward to? Going into labor and finally meeting my little boy

Funny Moment this week? none so far

So I'm a little crabby writing this post. I realize that babies rarely come on their due dates, especially first babies, but from a pregnant person's standpoint, that is very unfortunate. You prepare and grow for 9 months, you just can't wait to get the little bugger out, all to find out that it's really a waiting game. I'm exhausted because for some reason, I wake up between 5 and 530 every morning and have been the last month or so, and darn it, if I'm waking up at that hour it better be to see my little man and not just to lay there and think about when the heck he will decide to get here.

I went in today for my Dr. appointment. Everything looks fine, but I have not progressed passed 1cm, grr. And YES, I have been doing everything possible to help this along. He did say however, that my bag of waters is so tight that he couldn't feel where the baby was positioned, so he had to wheel in his little ultrasound machine to ensure he was still head down, he is luckily. But, he said it made him wonder if my bag of waters will just burst and shoot me into labor because of how tight it is. My thought: SWEET, lets get this show on the road! The plan if I don't go into labor by next Tuesday (41 weeks): ultra sound, amniotic fluid test and stress test to see how baby boy is holding up. If all is well, then I will meet again that Friday (14th) have another stress test and if everything is fine, they will schedule me to be induced the following week (42nd week). If the tests don't look very good, then they will induce me within a day or so if not that day. None of this I want. I broke down in my car after all of this. I want to have a natural labor so badly and it's starting to freak me out that he could decide to hangout much longer than a doctor is willing to let him. I pray every night that things will be okay and he will come soon.

Little man had us in a tither the other night, Saturday night because I was having constant contractions for several hours, we were really starting to wonder if he was on his way. Then they stopped, just like that. Rowdy asked that I try and hold off until Friday so he can finish his finals, yeah I'll get right on that dear. I don't think it has quite set in for him yet that this is going to happen any day, it's not longer "a month from now" or anything like that, it's any day. I am so excited to hold our little bundle of joy, our little miracle baby, because he was definitely a baby sent to us at this time for a purpose. I wonder what he will look like, if he will have mounds of blonde hair like Rowdy did when he was born, if he will be big (hope not) or small, if he will sleep well or cry a lot, what he will smell like, feel his baby soft skin. I welcome it all, whatever he brings.