Jackson Gundar arrived at 4:49pm on 07/08/09 after 13 hours of labor and 9 minutes of pushing! :) He weighed 7lbs 1 oz and was 19.5 inches long!

I woke up wednesday morning at about 4am and was having contractions so I decided to walk and see what happened. I woke James up around 6:30 and we called the doctor and was on our way! We got to the hospital around 7:45 and at this point I was dilated to 2cm and fully effaced. We walked and waited for my doctor to be done with a c-section and about 45 minutes later she came in and checked me again. I was dilated to 3cm so she went ahead and broke my water. From this point on, we dilated pretty much a cm an hour! At about 11:30 I got my epidural and was much more comfy! Mom and Dad even took a nap! Later that afternoon, we were told the news that it was time! My nurse said usually they have you start pushing before the doctor gets there so it was a good thing we didn't do that! We started pushing at 4:40 and Jackson was born at 4:49! He had to go to the nursery for the next 4 hours to get his blood sugars monitored though. While he was in there though, dad and everyone were able to visit and see him. I, unfortunately, started having blood pressure issues and after bloodwork, they realized I had developed preeclampsia from delivery. So, I was then pumped full of magnesium and was quite miserable! I was not allowed to breastfeed or anything, so I was kind of confined to the bed. :( Jackson finally came back to our room around 10pm and I was able to hold and feed him which was just awesome! He stayed with us from then on! The next evening I was able to get up and shower and change rooms and that made a huge difference. I felt great after that! We were able to go home friday night and he is doing great!

He is such a good baby! He doesn't cry more than 5 seconds unless he is getting his diaper changed. He was given a pacifier in the nursery at the hospital and they have become BFF, so that gets him through his changings. He loves it. He will also sit awake for a couple of hours at a time but just be content watching everything, so we are just in awe with everything. He is currently working his way back to breastfeeding and is doing pretty well today! We are just so pleased with how everything turned out and how spectacular he is.

I will post pics shortly!

We have technically made it to term! woohoo!

Today was our 37 week appt. Jackson has mom a bit worried with how much he likes to teeter on the edge "of danger" with everything. He may be a bit of a daredevil, I think. Jackson passed his non stress test with flying colors today! He was the most active after juice than he has ever been in the last 10 weeks and 20 NSTs. He, of course, was asleep at the start, so we had to drink some juice to wake him up. James thinks he does this just for the sugar. :)He would take after mom on that one. We were very thrilled to see this. He then had his ultrasound to check the amniotic fluid levels since they were the concern this past week. He actually has only dropped a small amount and this was not what the doctor anticipated was going to happen, so we were pretty shocked at this one. My placenta is still scoring a 3 (0 bein the best and 3 being the worst) but Jackson is gaining weight like a champ, so they are not concerned until that stops. He weighed in at an estimated 6lbs 12oz on the ultrasound today. According to this, he would be pushing 9lbs if he went full term.... WOW! With all of these things, my doctor anticipated that one of them would go into an "unsafe zone" so had told us to plan on getting induced today. Oh, the last thing was my blood pressure... it's high but not high enough to induce based on that. So, needless to say we got everything prepared and that included our friends and family (sorry guys!). After evaluating everything, my doctor decided we were gonna hold out a while longer. She promised James that next Monday would be the latest (James made her schedule it in front of him!) We are going to re-evaluate things on Thursday as well, but Monday would be the longest we would go. In the meantime, she stripped my membranes to try to make me go into labor on my own. OUCH! So, no news today..... we are sorry to get everyone ready for nothing! We'll keep you posted if we decide to go the natural route, otherwise, you can at least plan on next monday for sure!! :) And I say, get induced... we're not gonna promise he'll come that day even though James says he will because it's the home run derby! :)

Talk to you all soon!!