Our family is now complete!
Our sweet baby boy! He's so pink and perfect!
Ok, so most of you know that we welcomed our little miracle, Evan Joseph Helgemoe, on June 13th at 10:26 am. He weighed in at a hefty 6 lb 4 oz and was 19 inches long. He is such an amazing little boy already and our hearts are so full of love for him, I feel like it could burst! I am especially happy that he took it easy on me for labor! So here's the story of his delivery, as it is kind of interesting!
So I was 2 days over due on Sunday June 12th. We got up and went to church and I noticed that "the baby" hadn't been moving as much as normal. We came home and I counted his kicks in 1 hour and they were less than what they recommend so I called the on call doctor. She told me to go to the birthing unit to have a non stress test. We headed there, thinking that we would be home in about 1 hour, we would soon find out that we thought wrong! So we got to the birthing unit and got hooked up to find that luckily everything was ok! But they did notice that I was having frequent contractions, so they decided to check my cervix. In doing so she said that my cervix was still closed, but the nurse apparently broke my water! We had to have a test to make sure it was amniotic fluid and it came back positive. So after speaking to the doctor on call, they gave us the option to induce that night or to just monitor and possibly induce later in the week. Ummm, let me think? You guessed it, we decided to induce! They placed cervadil Sunday night and were planning on starting pitocin in the morning. With the impending arrival of our little munchkin, I couldn't really sleep and about 3:30 in the morning I started to have some pretty uncomfortable contractions. Nothing that was intollerable, but painful. I breathed through them until about 5:30 when they became extrememly painful and I was in full on labor! I asked the nurse for pain meds and after offering it to me all night, she said that I should try a shower first! WHAT??? Whatever, so I showered (which did not help!!) and luckily the day nurse came on shift and she hooked me up with some meds that at least took the edge off! By about 6:30 in the morning my cervix was already dilated to 4 cm so I asked for my epidural right away! My nurse was amazing and got me the 1st epidural (out of like 7!)!!! After that it was a cake walk! Ok, maybe not, but definately more enjoyable! It didn't take long and by about 10 am I was fully dilated!! After needing some oxygen and repositioning, I was able to start pushing! After about 25 minutes of pushing, we finally found out what this little miracle was! It was a boy!!!!! He came out screaming and just perfect. It is amazing that you can love someone so much after about 2 seconds (especially for only making mom go through 5 hours of labor)!
Eric was such a proud papa and was able to go to the waiting room and announce that we had a little boy! Grandpa Keating and Auntie Ricki and Uncle Colin were there and Grandma Keating was able to be in the delivery room. We were so happy that it worked out the way it did so Papa Keating could be here to meet him! He left the next day! Grandma and Grandpa Helgemoe were about 45 minutes out when he came into the world and we were so happy that they were all there!!
He had a few issues after he was born though. Because he was SGA (small for gestational age) they did a blood sugar that came back low. So he had to have it rechecked a few more times to make sure that it was okay and after a few attempts at breastfeeding, his blood sugar was up where it needed to be! Also, his bilirubin was a little elevated so we had to supplement breastfeeding with a little bit of formula for a few days, but it came down and we stopped supplementing. We were able to go home on Wednesday and we were so excited to get home and start this new life with Evan. The dogs were very curious when we brought him home, but they have been great with him. Molly sure didn't like it when he cried at first, but she is adjusting well. I do feel bad that I can't spend as much time with them at this point. I hope they will forgive us!
Evan has been an amazing little man so far. He is sleeping great and he hardly ever cries! He is such a chill baby, thank goodness! He took to breasfeeding right away and so far have not had many issues. We were so lucky to have my mom here for a few weeks after Evan was born. She was such a great help and I don't know what I would have done without her! Eric was able to take 1 week off work so he was able to spend some good time with Evan. Evan really calms to Eric's voice, I think because he talked to my belly so much during pregnancy! They are going to have so much fun when Evan gets older! But he better stay my momma's boy forever!
He has had a couple of doctor's appointments and he has had good reports at both. He is gaining weight and currently weighs 6 lb 11 1/2 oz and has grown 1/2 inch already :( I told him he has to stay little and mushy forever! Probably not gonna happen though! We are adjusting well to life with a little man and couldn't imagine our lives without him. He totally completes our family and we feel so blessed to have him in our lives. We look forward to what the future holds for us and him and hope to guide him the best that we can. So I will try to keep up with posting pictures and updating you all about how he is doing. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and well wishes after Evan was born! He is so lucky to have you all in his life, as are we!
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