For months I have wanted to start blogging again but...haven't.
I don't know why.
But some pretty big things have happened in our family in the last year and I want to document those and keep on going from there! I love the idea of journals and well kept blogs but for some reason have a terrible time keeping them myself.
#1 most important happening was adding JACK EDWARDS BAGLEY to the family! Oh my baby Jack. He is just the best thing. He was born on August 20th 2013 in Boise, Idaho.
I started having intense contractions on the 19th in the afternoon. I called my mom and she drove to Boise right away. We walked around the mall with the kids and that hurt. I don't really ease into labor. I'm just in it right away. We headed back home to put the kids to bed and get ready for the hospital around 7-8ish (btw I'm totally trying to recall all of this from my horrible terrible memory.) Once we were home my contractions became almost nonexistent. They finally picked up again around midnight and we went to the hospital about 1. I was dilated to a 4 and was told to walk the halls. I could only take a few steps at a time and then would have to stop and rest through contractions for a "lil minute" as Taylor would say :)
After one hour they checked me again and I was a 7/8. Whew!
So then I decided to take it easy for awhile on the bed. Some time passes and I'm not really progressing any and I remember just sitting there thinking "I guess I could probably finish this off naturally but I'm super tired and I just don't feel like hurting anymore."
I wanted an epidural, please and thank you.
The guy came in and I was joking around with him and the nurses and chit chattin' and apparently afterwards he was shocked to learn I was a 7/8 and would have never believed it if the nurse hadn't confirmed it. I was in some serious pain but I'm just not much of noise maker when it doesn't help any, and humor is my default mode in almost every situation. Stub my toe on a corner of something though and you'll hear some wailing and gnashing of teeth.
I started getting numbed up and I could feel it a lot more on one side of my body and they told me to kind of move around and switch sides I was laying on to get it to work more evenly and it eventually does. Then it just felt like I was too numb or something and I asked if it's possible to turn it down? Can you regulate an epidural? I didn't know. But apparently you can so the guy came back in and he said it was definitely the first time anyone had asked for LESS pain meds. He turned it down and I could kind of feel but not totally and that was good for me. I think it was still a couple of hours before I was ready to push. Finally though it was go time and I could really feel it, which I loved. It wasn't excruciating pain like I had with Brooklyn naturally, but it was intense. He came out pretty quickly, like maybe 3 or so contractions worth of pushing? And then he was here! Our sweet baby boy.
8lbs 4oz, 20 inches long
My biggest baby!
Ok full disclosure here one of my first thoughts when I saw him was SHNOZZ. He had the biggest nose and I was a little sad for him and said a silent prayer that he would grow into it soon and that it would not be a plague on his life. Turns out it was just swollen and it all worked out after a couple of hours! Horrible mom moment I know. I mean I still loved him completely but I couldn't not notice that honker.
Camberlangos!
It took us a couple of days to name Jack. My whole pregnancy I was determined to name him Max and Seth had liked it for awhile. Towards the end he started pushing for Jack, which has always actually been my favorite boy name, but I just wasn't convinced. Who knows why. Finally when we were really starting to get pressured with paper work I said we could go with Jack if I could use my maiden name Edwards as his middle name. I love family names for middle names. We agreed on it and it has been the perfect name for him!
He has been the cutest, chubbiest, happiest addition to our family!
And I finally got a brown eyed baby!
He might look a little like his mama. That brings me up to 1 out of 3 in the resemblance department!
We sure love this boy!
