Baby Joshua is here!

Well it finally happened. Sunday night after we had dinner at Tony's parents house, we decided to go for a little walk to see if that would help start labor. It wasn't much of a walk because we had to stop at a couple of peoples houses, but after we got back I noticed that my lower back was starting to hurt, but I thought maybe it was just gas or something. 

So I got Tyler ready for bed and sat with him for a while and then decided that I would just go to bed. It was only 9:00, but I was pretty tired. My back was still hurting and I was trying to decide if I was having contractions or not. I kept thinking all night about all the things that I still needed to do before I had the baby and made plans for all the things that I would get done the next day to be prepared. I kept getting up to go to the bathroom thinking that that might make my back stop hurting. It didn't work. At about 4:00 am I had just gotten back to bed from going to the bathroom and then I felt a kind of pop "down there." Then I felt a little wet, so I went back to the bathroom and my bottoms were really wet. So I knew then that my water had definitely broken. So I texted Tony, who was already at work, and then started getting packed.

I didn't hear back right away from Tony, so then I called him. I got his voice mail and left him a message. Then I tried to call Tony's mom, but she didn't answer. So then Tony called me and said that he was on his way home and then he called his dad's phone and let them know that we would be coming by soon to drop off Tyler. 

We then finished getting packed and got Tyler in the car and headed to the hospital. Tyler was excited and said that he wanted to go "fast" and it was way cute. I was having some pretty strong contractions and half way there I threw up...so much fun. Luckily I had a barf bag in my car, so it wasn't too bad.

So after we dropped off Tyler we headed straight to the IMC hospital. We got there and checked in and then they got us our room and got down to business. They checked me and I was dilated to a 6 and 90% effaced. They started my IV and we were on our way. I tested positive for the strep B, so they had to give me an antibiotic and have it in for at least four hours before I had baby.

I was there for about an hour when we decided to get the epidural. The contractions were getting really strong and I didn't know if I would dilate quickly and didn't want to wait too long. After the epidural my contractions slowed way down and I stopped progressing. So after another hour or so my midwife gave me patosen to give me stronger contractions. I started pushing at about 11:00 am and Joshua Clark Steenblik was born at 12:37 pm. He was 8 pounds even and was 20 and 1/2 inches long. He was nice and healthy and happy to be here.

Tyler loves his little brother and does pretty good with him. He is doing some funny things to make sure that we still are giving him lots of attention, so that is kind of annoying when it is naughty things. We all have lots of learning to do.

Me and baby are doing well. We are both learning to nurse and what we are doing, but it is ALL GOOD. We are SO SO blessed and happy to have baby home with us.