The Day My Life Changed

Ok so I totally 100% copied this idea from someone and you know who you are, so thank you. :)
Let's start off with that. If there is one and only one thing I want people to learn from my blog or my pregnancy it is that having a friend, one you can truly talk to about EVERYTHING and I mean even the gross details is the best thing in the ENTIRE world. My friend, whom I won't divulge any intimate details about is my best friend at the moment. I mean in the sense that she has been the most helpful person to me during this entire pregnancy and during the first weeks of motherhood. So that others who get pregnant can use my source of happiness I will tell you a little about how we met, and why she is so valuable.

Cerissa is a 21 year old, like me, who got pregnant unexpectedly, was pregnant over her 21st birthday, with her boyfriend at the time. This all sounds awfully familiar because that is exactly like me. We met on a site we both joined called WhattoExpect.com. This was after the famous book What to Expect When Expecting. I put up a message saying I was 21 and expecting and she responded. Long story short, we started emailing and have not stopped since. The reason I explain this is that I since we were due at the same time, we had so many questions and problems in common. She was who I went to when I wanted to know what she thought about something, and how she was handling things. I seriously packed when she told me she packed, and thought about not getting an epidural because she wasn't. I mean she was the opinion I took most into consideration. This made my pregnancy so much better because I could vent to her, and listen to her rants, and feel completely better because I knew I wasn't alone in my concerns. This is why if anyone I know get pregnant from now on I am going to tell them to get a belly buddy (thats what WTE calls it)

So anyways on to the baby, Mr. Liem. The reason I created this blog. I will start with the day he was born, just in case I haven't told someone, because I have told this story like a hundred times and I forget who I tell.

Liem Wade Dionne was born at 9:30 pm on Friday May 16th after 15 hours and 45 minutes of labor. I was due on May 9th orignally, but after I went a week overdue, the doctor scheduled for me to be induced on the 16th. So after I didn't go into labor that last week I went in at 5 in the morning on Friday to be induced. At 5:45 they started the petosin and for a while, nothing progressed. My doctor checked me at around 8 and I was about 2-3 cm dialated, so he decided that if nothing happened by lunch time, he would break my water. So, nothing happened. To begin with I didn't even feel the weak contractions. So at 12 the doctor came back and broke my water. That was weird. I just leaked warm fluid for about the next couple hours, during every contraction. So then they started to really hurt. Like bad. The next couple hours went by in a fuzz. I remember asking for the stateall, which was the weak pain killer, which ended up doing NOTHING but make me tired between awfully pained contractions. So finally around 5 ish I opted for the epidural. The nurse said I was only 7 cm dialated, and I was not about to wait a cm an hour with this intense pain. So after that I was in bliss. So I felt nothing and when the nurse came in and told me I was fully dialated and his head was already descending. So at 9 I started pushing and by 9:30 he was here. All 8lb. 7 oz. of him. He was crying and beautiful. So amazing.

So now he is of course a month old. And I am loving every minute of him. Speaking of which, I should go to sleep, so I can take care of him. I will try to find a minute to write more later for those who care.