The arrival.. A labor of love.

Sorry it's a bit late.. But as I'm sure you can imagine I have had my hands full lately..

On May 26th, 2011 at 7:43pm Osiris Gibbs Wilson made his way into our world... I was induced at 7:00am and after not a lot of progress at 2:30 was finally ready to start pushing.. After 3 hours of pushing, it was abundantly clear that my little one was not going to come out that way.. So into the csection room I went.. It was an exhausting day, but also very rewarding.. I will tell you I did get an epidural, I had planned to go natural, but when I got into the contractions at like noon, I decided that I was not goin to make it through the day natural. I'm glad I did it.. I was able to conserve my energy for the pushing.. Osiris is perfect. I would post pictures, but I've been in bed resting and feeding so I've been on my iPad, no flash, no photo uploader.

I am exclusively breast feeding.. It's been both rewarding and frustrating.. He latched on great, but he ate so much on day two that I was raw and bleeding, which lead to me crying... It was not pretty.. When we were home I sent Rich to the store to get me some Medela nipple shields, they were a God send.. I don't know if I could have continued without them.. I can now feed without them without problem. Osiris is one hungry boy too.. He feeds for like an hour every two hours, but luckily he is sleeping for almost 5 hours at night, mostly laying on me, but beggars can't be choosers.. I'm working on getting him into his bassinet... But this early it's not a huge deal that he prefers to sleep with me..

I am doing extremely well too.. My csection is healing great.. I had no complications and don't need a lot of pain medicine at all... I'm pretty mobile, but after a lot of up and down the stairs there is a lot of pain.. So my wonderful hubby has gotten a cable box and grounded me to my room..lol. I feel much better here, but I will say I am getting cabin fever! But there arent many places I can go while breast feeding.. I'll begin to pump soon, that will give me some freedom.. I have to say, if you are pregnant and don't plan on breastfeeding, rethink it.. Not only will it save you money, it will also save you time.. I can't imagine how much time I have saved by not having to get up and make a bottle every two hours.. Especially at like 3 in the morning..

Well that's all for now, I will get to the real computer and add a picture as soon as possible. Thanks for the love and support.

Until next time my crafty friends.