At 12:26 am on Thursday, August 7th, our little Marco was born! Three days after my due date had passed, we went to the hospital and they induced me. Labor was relatively quick, as they started me on the oxytocin at about 4 pm. At about 7 pm I got an epidural (amazing) and the rest was a breeze! At about 11:45 pm the nurse told me I was 10cm dilated and that it was time to push. I gave one good push and she could see the head! Considering they hadn't even called our doctor (and it was going to take him about 20 minutes to get there) she had me lay on my side and stop pushing. So once our doctor arrived, I pushed 1 and a half times and he was out! He certainly made his appearance, because right out of the womb he decided to pee all over the place! Pretty hilarious.
The whole experience was amazing, a thousand times better than we had imagined. They put him on the scale and he was a whopping 8 lb 10 oz, and 20 1/2 inches long. After cleaning him off and doing what they needed to do, they laid him on my chest. The first hour after he was born was spent just the three of us, enjoying our time together. I wouldn't trade that for the world. Then our families came back in and were able to hold him. Our stay at Hoag Hospital was excellent. All of the nurses were so sweet and helpful, and the rooms are so great! The labor and delivery room had an ocean view, it was like we were staying at a hotel! We got to go home Saturday. We were anxious to be at home, and to sleep (yeah right) in our own bed.
He is 10 days old today, and we think he is just the cutest thing on the earth. We may be a little biased. :) We have been so blessed with help from friends and family. My mom came for a week, and took over all of the household duties that we were unable to attend to. She made us delicious meals, and in her spare time, managed to spend some time holding her grandson. We for sure miss her now that she isn't here! The Fajardo's have been able to spend quite a bit of time here as well, which has been wonderful. They always manage to find more stuff at Target that we need. For the next weeks we have dinners being brought over for us from friends, for which we are so grateful. There is no way we would have time to even think about making dinner!
Being parents is definitely hard work...full of sleepless nights, many many poopy diapers, feeding him 8-12 times a day, and trying to figure out what is wrong when he is upset. But let me tell you, this precious boy is worth every second of it.
And praise the Lord, his stinky umbilical cord stump fell off this morning! All of you parents will understand. :) Check back soon, we are sure to have some disgusting amount of photos posted of our little guy.
The whole experience was amazing, a thousand times better than we had imagined. They put him on the scale and he was a whopping 8 lb 10 oz, and 20 1/2 inches long. After cleaning him off and doing what they needed to do, they laid him on my chest. The first hour after he was born was spent just the three of us, enjoying our time together. I wouldn't trade that for the world. Then our families came back in and were able to hold him. Our stay at Hoag Hospital was excellent. All of the nurses were so sweet and helpful, and the rooms are so great! The labor and delivery room had an ocean view, it was like we were staying at a hotel! We got to go home Saturday. We were anxious to be at home, and to sleep (yeah right) in our own bed.
He is 10 days old today, and we think he is just the cutest thing on the earth. We may be a little biased. :) We have been so blessed with help from friends and family. My mom came for a week, and took over all of the household duties that we were unable to attend to. She made us delicious meals, and in her spare time, managed to spend some time holding her grandson. We for sure miss her now that she isn't here! The Fajardo's have been able to spend quite a bit of time here as well, which has been wonderful. They always manage to find more stuff at Target that we need. For the next weeks we have dinners being brought over for us from friends, for which we are so grateful. There is no way we would have time to even think about making dinner!
Being parents is definitely hard work...full of sleepless nights, many many poopy diapers, feeding him 8-12 times a day, and trying to figure out what is wrong when he is upset. But let me tell you, this precious boy is worth every second of it.
And praise the Lord, his stinky umbilical cord stump fell off this morning! All of you parents will understand. :) Check back soon, we are sure to have some disgusting amount of photos posted of our little guy.
