And it's about time! We had a scheduled induction for Friday morning to finally have a baby. it took about 6 hours just to get me into labor but once the pitocin was able to do it's job, Baby Caleb was here about 4 hours later. He weighed 9 lbs 1 oz (aren't I glad we didn't just wait for him to get here and keep growing!) and was 21" long. He has tons of dark hair, with two cowlicks in the back that give him a cute little built in mohawk.
Not long after the delivery I got a raging headache, and it ended up being a "spinal headache." Now when you hear about the side effects of an epidural, one is a "headache". I'm convinced that the term is a super duper understatement. It should be retitled a "just shoot me now or my head will explode" headache. I literally had to be laying flat at all times or it was just so intense that I couldn't even keep my eyes open. So on Saturday they had to call the anisthesiologist back in and they had to do a blood patch to fix a little hole made in one of the membranes around my spinal cord during the epidural. Not a fun procedure, especially knowing that's it's not guaranteed to work, or even last long enough to keep the headache away until the hole heals itself (can be up to 10 days!) It's essentially another epidural, with a blood draw, that they then inject directly into my spine. But at least for now it has worked! It's not a perfect fix, but probably 80% of the headache is gone. Now it's just like having a lingering headache that would be more normal. It's just not touchable by any medication, so taking some tylenol won't fix it. But I can tolerate that, especially remembering what it was like yesterday. Now I just have a really sore back instead. But that seems to be getting better gradually.
So now here are pics of the baby, since I know that's what you all wanted to see anyways!
Trying not to let on that my head is about to blow...
Hanging out with daddy
Now I'm not sure what he was trying to do, but Joshy is pulling Caleb's ears outward to check them out! Josh is so incredibly fascinated by his new little brother, we'll have to be super dilligent in watching what he does to the baby
We'll get some more pics taken soon that are nicer and not in the hospital :) He's a cutie, and we're grateful that he's a super mellow little boy so far. He hardly makes a sound, and is content to just snuggle with mom or dad most of the time.
