Pictures

Well, as my brother Tyler pointed out to me, my blog is turning into a 'baby blog'. Sorry folks for those of you who used to be interested in my blog. But this is my life now, I'll try and post other interesting things that happen to me and Mike as they occur but for now, all my devoted attention pretty much goes to Emmett. At least I know the grandparents will enjoy it. :)

Mike and I decided to touch base with our inner creativity and take our own pictures of Emmett instead of paying for a photographer. I was really picky about how these were going to turn out because a newborn is only a newborn for so long, and they grow up so fast. I really wanted to capture him while he's still little and have the pictures be good. Well, I have to say I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. And we had a lot of fun in the process.

I'm not going to post all of them cause we took a bunch, but these are my favorites.

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Melts My Heart

This makes all the poopy diapers at 3 am totally worth it.

Home

Well we made it home and are adjusting well. Emmett is such a good baby. He loves to be held and cuddled, and is easy to lay down and have him stay asleep in his crib. He doesn't cry much, and when he does its only for one of his basic needs and he's his happy self again. My mom is here helping and is being a life saver. We love having her here. Mike has to go back to work on Monday. It was kind of a bummer he had to spend his week off of work in the hospital. But the hospital stay was nice, and I was treated so well, but there's nothing like your own bed and we were ready to come home! My recovery is a little better every day. I didn't realize how painful a c-section would be. Good news is I can now get out of bed on my own without needing a hand! We love Emmett so much, and its been so fun starting out being parents. Well, here's a few new pictures.

All dressed and ready to go home!

Checking out of the hospital

I don't know why I'm posting this picture, as its almost embarrassing. But so many people have asked how someone like me pulled off having such a big baby and well....this is why:

Me at 39 weeks: I was huge!

A Very Happy Birthday

He's here! Emmett Michael Gleue decided to be his mothers favorite birthday present and was born on November 3, at 5:48am. He was 8lbs 10oz, 21 1/2 inches long!

I started having contractions early Sunday morning around 3am. They continued all day until we decided it was time to go to the hospital around 6pm Sunday night. When we arrived I was barely dilated to 1+. Which was really disapointing since I had been laboring for about 15 hours. They decided to monitor me to see if I would keep progressing and thankfully 2 hours later I was dilated to a 3 so they admitted me. By 2am I was complete and we started pushing. The baby was still really high, so they warned me pushing wasn't going to be easy. Well, long story short 1 hour 1/2 later the checked to see where the baby was and he was still really high, and wasn't moving. They told me he was too big and wasn't fitting through my pelvis. So we decided it was time to settle for a c-section. I was pretty disapointed after going through all that I did, but by 4 in the morning going on 25 hours of no sleep and hard long labor I was exhausted and didn't think I could keep pushing even if they thought he would fit through. At 5:48am we heard that little cry and he was born.

We will be in the hospital until probably Friday. He's healthy and beautiful and we are so in love with him. We couldn't be more thankful for this little miracle.