We wanted to share these videos of our beautiful son. Forgive me for not writing much more. I’m pretty tired today. The first video is of him in his swing. He sneezes at the beginning. Pretty cute! The second is him sucking on his longhorn pacifier while swaddled as snug…
Oh yes, even though I had an epidural, there was pain. I had a walking epidural, so I could still feel my legs and everything was comfortable from 6 cm to about 9.5 cm but the pain returned and felt like it had at 6 cm plus I had the…
They got me back to bed and the anesthesiologist got there shortly. While she gave me the epidural, I sat on the edge of the bed with my forehead pressed into John’s. Thankfully I didn’t move, despite having a contraction during the time she was giving me the epidural. I…
At this point, it was kind of surreal. I said yes, and one of his nurses walked us over to the hospital registration desk. There, the German-only speaking nun got us registered in between the incessant phone calls she was taking. It seemed that the registration took forever. We then…
I had been having Braxton Hicks contractions for weeks, and March 31st didn’t seem any different. It was a week past the day John and I believed was my due date and 3 days after the doctor’s calculated due date. I was really motivated to finally get our little guy…
Elijah John was born March 31 at 11:37 PM Central European Time. He weighed 8 lbs 6 oz and was 21 inches long. His head was 14.96 inches. He has kept his mommy and daddy very busy and a wee bit sleep deprived, but we are so in love. He…