Oh it's been a while blogging world! But we have obviously been soooo busy with all of our new and exciting adjustments around here! We finally moved into our new house the day after our big baby shower! Thank you all who attended and shared in our special time with us and thank you so much for being so generous with all the adorable baby gifts Aiden received! It sure was a busy weekend March 14-15! Baby was due on April 12th, but he decided to grace us with his presence only 2 weeks after we moved in, on April 3 at 10:55pm. When my water broke all over our bathroom floor at 3:30am, my first thought was, "Oh my gosh the nursery isn't even set up yet!" I soon realized it didn't even matter and our family was there to help thank goodness! We calmly gathered our hospital bags, last minute food, and our famous media bag and headed to John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek- about a 45 minute drive. So labor went well, I was very calm the whole way because that's what I had set my mind to be that day. My contractions were so much more painful than I could ever imagine with intense back labor. Tim was an awesome helper, always right there, honoring each and every one of my requests throughout the day and night. Requests like turing up the AC so that the room was a comfortable 40 degrees! (I was so hot during labor, so hot!) I learned later that some nurses were arguing over who had to go be in my, "ice-box" room. LOL My mom, mother-in-law Neva, and my sister Melissa, (who is also pregnant with a girl due in July) were also in attendance, (wearing snowjackets) and wonderful helpers as well. Long before my birthing day, probably when I read my first birth story on the empowered birth website, I decided I wanted an all natural birth. Or maybe it was the influence of my Birthing From Within book which was my other "birthing bible". Many of my friends would say, "Are you crazy?" and carry on as such. But that's just another product of our over-medicated society! Do they not realize that there was a time when people had to go through life's hardships and pain without medication? And birthing is a natural event, it's not like I refused chemo or something! God will give you the strength to handle it, all you have to do is ask and believe. Simple really. That's all I did for 22 hours of labor. I trusted my body to do it's thing and was comforted by the fact that this was the safest, most natural and beautiful way to bring little Aiden into this world. I did it for love. I did it because I wanted to feel everything. I wanted to remember and be 100% coherent for the most incredible thing my body will ever do forever. Weird? Nah, just one who embraces all the intensities this life has to offer, unafraid to face them head-on and knowing that whatever doesn't kill me will just make me rock more! :) I think of it as somewhat of a rite of passage into motherhood. Being a mother is the most loving thing you can accomplish on this earth I know now. There is nothing in life that compares to the side of love that motherhood brings about in a person.
Anyways-that's a whole other blog posting :) I am rambling. Back to the birth...So a hot shower made me dilate from a 4 to a 7 so halleluiah for showers in labor! And hypno-birthing cd's. I am a big fan of Belleruth Naparstek's hypnotherapy cd's, they have helped in other areas of my life in the past so I thought why not try her lovely hypnotizing effects in order to accomplish my goal of a natural birth. Worked like a charm. Got into my calm zone from the first contraction all the way through until Aiden popped out! Eyes closed, low mono-tone voice making one-word requests throughout the day. Very serene, centered and drifting to a place in my mind that only I was allowed to enter, shutting out the institutional surroundings of the hospital and my birth team unless I needed them :) I highly recommend it!
Aiden Sam arrived at last and we were so blessed! So healthy, beautiful with not one newborn flaw. Amazing.
He is now almost 3 months old! People are right when they say your kids will grow up in the blink of an eye! The past 3 months of being new parents has been filled with the more joy than we could ever imagine. Everything is exciting and new like falling in love for the first time, but time that by 1,000! Everything is also a disorganized, sleep-deprived, blur but a happy blur. Here's bits and pieces of the blur broken down-Stayed up worried for the first two nights just to watch him breathe, had family and friends in and out of the house constantly first 2 weeks, became a hermit for the first couple weeks and forgetting what a hairdryer or make-up was, took Aiden to doctor, Dr. said Aiden was fine and told US to chill out and not to worry so much, (new babies are scary until the first week is over), had the house rigged with walkie-talkies to communicate my and Aiden's needs efficiently :), learned what 9 hours of sleep for an entire week felt like, took Aiden on first outing to Target all bundled like an eskimo so no one would breathe on him in 80 degree weather, survived the dreadful circumcision with my ear pressed against the operating room door because Dr. didn't allow mothers in, (they all laughed when they opened the door and I practically fell into the room instead of waiting in the waiting room like all the other sane mothers), took Aiden to the U-pick farm for strawberries but only had time for cute pictures before it was time to go home and feed, took him to visit the grandparents in Turlock and Sacramento for mother's day and got my first mother's day card made out of construction paper by Aiden and Daddy-so cute, took the little guy on his first airplane ride up to Oregon to visit more family and played around in downtown Portland, learned how to cook dinner and hold a baby at the same time, and fell in love with my husband all over again when I see him with the beautiful little product of our love, singing to him and connecting with him in a way that only they will share. Life's been good to us.
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