We're Back!!

It has been quite a while since my last post! Lets just say a lot has happened since then! =)
We are happy to welcome our sweet lil man Henry ! What a sweet baby he is and a true blessing!
This last Sunday Henry turned one month old!! One month already... are you kidding me? Everyone says that it goes by fast, and they were totally right.
I'll go back to the day I went into labor just as an update. I got up and had Matt get all the Christmas stuff down and I proceeded to get it all out and put up. I was determined to get it, including the tree up before he arrived. (It was November 26th). I worked all day getting the decorations just right and Matt ran out and picked us a beautiful tree. Once everything was up I made my way to the mall and to Target to finish up my Christmas shopping. I got home around 5-5:30 that night. Well... at about 8:30 the contractions started! I didn't really think much of it because I had been getting contractions the nights before at about the same time. They were about every 5-7 minutes apart at that point. I was able to finally go to sleep about 11ish, needless to say that didnt last long. I was up an hour later with the most intense lower abdominal contractions. I gave it about a couple of hours and told Matt that they just didn't feel right and that I needed to call the hospital. I talked with an OB nurse and she said to come on in to get checked, so off we went to the hospital at 2:30 AM. Thinking it would be a false alarm, we were told my contractions were about 2 minutes apart and that I was dilated to a 4. "Your staying here, no going home tonight"...Wait.... "does this mean we're going to have a baby tonight", Matt said. LOL. Indeed baby Henry was on his way!! =)
By 4:30 I had my epidural (which was totally amazing, the doctor did awesome!) and then I was able to get some rest! Matt ran home to grab a few things because we really werent quite prepared for him to arrive. The funny thing is Matt came home, picked up the house, took a shower, and made himself a nice breakfast. Good thing Henry didn't come while he was taking his time! =)
I think it was around 9:40ish that the doctor said I was an 8 and she went ahead broke my water. I remember talking to my dad right after and said it would probably still be a while. Well... a few minutes later I called the nurse to tell her I felt like I had to push and sure enough it was time! I only had to push for about 30 minutes and sweet Henry arrived!! It was the most precious moment...looking up at Matt and seeing his reaction was priceless. We did it, we brought into the world a beautiful healthy little boy!! Thank you Jesus!!
Postpartum was such a breeze for me. I really didn't have much pain or problems at all. The only problem I had was with breastfeeding...man thats a tough one! We had a really hard time with the whole breastfeeding thing. I ended up with mastitis and had to have antibiotics for 10 days. Once that cleared up things got a little better. But me and Henry are finally getting it figured out and things are going great in that department!
My mom was gracious enough to come stay with us for a whole month and that time is almost over! She leaves tomorrow and me and Henry and daddy are going to miss her soooo much. She has felt like she hasn't done much but she has done so much in my eyes! I have been able to get extra sleep and ever get a daily shower and now that she will be leaving, I'm probably going to be a walking zombie! =( In short, Granny has been such a blessing and we will miss her tremendously! Thank you Granny for being here and being the very best granny EVER!
Next post will be.... some very cute pictures of lil man!