The Entners: A baby, a house, and 6 weeks of updating...

It has been about 6 weeks since my last real blog update, and it has probably been the busiest and most eventful 6 weeks of my life, so a lot of updating will be done in this post. Last I blogged, I was 41 weeks pregnant...

Aidan Michael Entner was born on Thursday June 9th, 2011 at 6:00 PM at Mary Greeley in Ames. He was 7 pounds 3 ounces, and he was 19 1/2 inches long. My contractions began that morning at about 2:30, but I had an ultrasound and nonstress test scheduled for 7:50 that morning, so I just waited until my appointment to see what I should do. When we got to the appointment, Dr. Leeds told me that I was 3cm and 80% effaced, so he gave me the option of going home or having him break my water to speed up my labor... so I chose to have him break my water. And, being a naive first-timer, I honestly thought that I wanted to do labor naturally--that plan went completely out the window when Dr. Leeds told me that the contractions I was feeling, which by the way was the most horrific pain of my life, were only mild contractions... so I said yes, please to the nice medication. The epidural was one of my biggest fears going into the labor process, and it turned out to be nothing to worry about. I did, however, end up throwing up for an hour after getting the epidural because of the medication they gave me during the epidural insertion. Once the vomiting stopped, I took a nice 3-4 hour nap, and woke up at 4:30 feeling a lot of pain in my hips. Dr. Leeds came in at 5:15 (...and Mike was out of the room getting a cell phone charger...), and he let me know that I was at 10 cm and ready to have the baby! When Mike got back to the room, our nurse, Abby, was getting me ready to push, much to his surprise! Pushing was much easier than I thought it would be--the whole delivery was completely different from what I expected--the room was quiet and dim, it was just me, Mike, and Abby, and I didn't feel a thing! Aidan finally made it to the edge, so to say..., so Abby went to get Dr. Leeds, but he took a little longer than expected, so while he was getting all his gear on, Aidan's head and arm came out--but he caught him with his hand--and he still managed to continue to get dressed with his other hand! Aidan had a meconium poop in the uterus, so he was taken over to the peds nurses right away, and he didn't cry! I was really worried when he wasn't crying, but it turns out he was completely healthy, breathing, and awake--he just was content and not crying :) Finally they gave him to us, and it was love at first sight :)

He has some crazy swirl colics :)

Getting to go home was quite an ordeal--we were cleared to leave at about noon, but we didn't actually get to leave until about 8:30 PM because we had to wait until Aidan peed to leave :)
Finally home, meeting the kitties

First bath...
Cuddling...

Sleepy smiles...
In his bassinet...

I can't get it flipped the right way...

In his big boy crib...
Tummy Time...
First bottle with Dad...

4th of July in Clear Lake...
Avery was very interested in the baby :)

Holding onto his pacifier...

The bjorn puts him to sleep, so we can be seen pacing the house in the bjorn when he won't go to sleep
Upsidedown again, sorry :)