Baby William comes into the World

William Richard Beers came into the world at 3:25 pm on February 8th, 2010
He was 8 lbs. 8 oz. and 21.5 inches long.
This was quite a bit bigger than we were expecting...but we love every inch of him.

To make a long story short...(sorry I am not going to share every gorey detail with you)
My labor started about 4pm on Saturday (Feb 6th) at Costco, I had picked my mom up from my aunts at 12noon. Walking around felt really good, and we got home from Costco, put everything away and at dinner. About 10pm we decided we should go to the hospital. Of course we got there, sat in the the room for just over and hour and was told that I wasn't dialating and they sent me home. They told me not to come back until my contractions were 3 minutes apart and lasting 1 minute. And my labor had to be harder (meaning it would hurt more).
So all through the night (i didn't get any sleep), Richard helped me count my contractions and it was about 6 am Sunday morning when we decided to go back to the hospital because we thought the contractions were harder, closer and longer. But to our disappointment, we waited over an hour and we told AGAIN that we needed to go home and waited for the contractions to get harder....HARDER!!! REALLY!!! The lady at the front desk told us, we would know when it was time, we would just know. Okay, okay, okay!
So we went home, got home around 10am, and of course my mom was disappointed to see us home. I went upstairs to try and get some rest, but it actually felt better to walk around. At about 2pm my mom had a large dinner ready for us, and told me to eat as much as I could. Richard of course was looking forward to watching the SuperBowl, so while he did that, my mom and I walked the stairs in my house and then walked around the block. We did that over and over and over again, from about 4 until 9. It was great! My mom is a good walker. :) Love you mom.
I went upstairs where Richard was working on his homework (the SuperBowl was over), and sat on the bed with him, and that is when I really realized that I prefer walking over sitting. And by 10pm I had decided that we needed to go the the hospital again, and Richard was going to have to finish his paper for English at the hospital. So off we went.
At the hospital, when they checked they found that I had dialated from 1cm to 2.5cm. Yeay! Finally some progress! And after an hour I had dialated to a 3.5cm. Yeay again!
By 3am on Monday morning I was dialated to 5cm and the doctor told me I could get an epidural anytime I wanted it. I decided to get it then, and by 4 am I was nice and comfy. Granted Richard hated the whole "epidural" process, and gave my mom the panic look when he saw the needle. After getting the epidural, my mom decided to go home and get some sleep and told us to call when we had the baby. Ok!
By 7am I had dialated to 8cm and my water had not broken, so the nurse broke my water. According to my mom, when i called her to tell her, breaking my water was going to speed up the process and I should have the baby in the next couple of hours.
Lo and behold, my mom shows up at 10am with balloons and flowers and I had not dialated another centimeter beyond 8. Crud!
They started me on some Petocin and by 2:45 I was dialated to 10cm, and ready to push. By 2:10 they had everything ready for me and I started pushing. Between the nurse, Richard and my mom we had me pushing and counting to 10 like my life depended on it! And at about 3:00 the nurse said that if I pushed one more time the baby was going to come out, and we had to wait for the doctor. I had to wait 20 minutes for the doctor to come, and as soon as he came in he got dressed and I pushed 10 seconds and once more for about 5 seconds and there was my beautiful baby boy. 8 lbs 8 oz, 21.5 inches long and it was 3:25pm.
I cried, Richard cried, my mom cried....and then the baby cried! It was amazing.
Everything else went beautifully at the hospital, no problems. Besides the nurse that was forcing the baby to breastfeed in a way that angered both the baby and myself, everyone was very helpful. The baby was doing well with breastfeeding by the time we left the hospital.
When we left on Tuesday night at about 7pm the baby was healthy and happy. He had passed all of his tests, he was doing we breastfeeding and he had actually GAINED an ounce, which is not common! :) The one problem was his jaundice, which is common in babies I guess, and we would have to take him back to the hospital the next day to check that.
And there is the story!

Dear Baby William,

Your current eviction date of February 5, 2010 has been set for 9 months and has now past. In the last few months I understand that you have become extremely comfortable in your dwelling (although you haven't been acting that way the last two weeks). Unfortunately, I did not discuss some of the key points of your lease with you.

The late night dance parties were not discussed in your lease, and they have been keeping me awake through the night.

The blockage of a numerous amount of pipes and the leaking of others has to be put to an end!

Also, as far as adding square footage to the dwelling, we discussed a reasonable addition. You have surpassed that by much more than we discussed, the last month has especially been a problem.

I have prepared another home for you to reside, so don't let house hunting be the reason you stay where you are. Since your eviction date has come and gone, please note that if you don't exit soon I will have to use forceful measures to remove you (which won't be comfortable for either of us). I would like for this transition to be as painless and quick as possible. Please don't make this any harder than it has to be.

Love you,

Mommy

here is me...at 23 weeks!

So, I have this funny look on my face because I finally decided to take a picture of my belly, which I don't feel "exists" enough to really merit the worth of a picture, but here you go. I also have that look on my face because I have been out of it all weekend. I think my body is trying to fight sickness so I have just been overly sleepy all weekend long.

Yesterday (Saturday) I couldn't stay awake for longer than 2 or 3 hours at a time before I would take a nap. I woke up at 8 because my cousin was leaving our house, so I wanted to make sure all went well. She left at 9 and I went back to bed until 11:30. Then I got up and got some things done, and ended up falling asleep in the chair downstairs from about 2 until 4. Then I was up until 6 or so, and slept again until 7:30. The BYU game started at 8 and I watched that until almost 10, when I fell asleep yet again, and slept until my husband kindly woke me up, walked me upstairs and tucked me into bed (I don't know what time it was), and I fell asleep very easily. I don't even know when he came to bed. I slept until 9 this morning, with no problem at all. What is the deal? I know many people have been telling me that I am pregnant and might have a hormone imbalance that is making me sleepy, but I really think it was more than that.

Anyway, we are good tonight, my husband and I made a fine Sunday dinner as a team, and we enjoyed it together. I am lucky to have such a happy, helping husband! It doesn't get much better than this. So, enjoy the picture that I still feel does not have enough worth to be posted, but many people have been asking. I don't feel that I look pregnant just yet, so I just hope I don't just look fat.

Oh...PS...my husband, this last week, felt the baby move for the first time. I was talking about how it was moving and so he put his hand on my stomach. As soon as the baby moved, Richard looked at me with wide eyes and asked, "was that the baby" and I said, "yes sir". Richard was very excited! It was a happy moment!

Happy Sunday! Have a good week.
Life is so good!