He's Here!

Baby Tanner (no name quite yet) arrived at 6:48 pm. He weighed 4 lbs 8 oz, so bigger than the doctor thought, which is very good. He has lots of dark hair and at least sounded like he had a good set of lungs. He is currently in the NICU with Matt and will stay there. I'll be able to go see him once the epidural wears off. We are so excited! Thank you all for your thought and prayers. Keep them coming so we can have a healthy boy to take home in hopefully not too long!

Ready or Not!

So, after being in labor over 36 hours now, they have finally decided to break my water because the baby is showing mild signs of stress and they need to get things moving. I've kind of been stuck between 5 and 7 all day today and contractions are slowing, but like I said before, there is no going back at this point. We are just waiting now for the baby to drop and the dilation to be complete, and we have no idea how long that will be at this point. We'll keep you posted if we get any new info!

Quick update

Not much is happening at this point, but I've promised a few people I would keep them up to date as we go.

I've finally reached a 7 and my water sac looks like it could be very close to breaking, and if it does they say things should progress quickly since his head will be so little. We are hoping to make it to 12:30 today so we can have the second shot to help his lungs develop more quickly, but we'll just have to see if we make it there.

That's really it for now. I'm at 32 hours of labor and going stir crazy, but we are glad that he is staying in as long as he can since each hour counts at this point. Thanks for all the prayers, well wishes, and offers for help. We feel so thankful to have so many wonderful friends and family!

Update

What does one do while sitting in the hospital at 4 am and not being able to sleep at all? Blog of course!

Here is the latest, and again this is mostly for documenting purposes for our own little family--I'm not expecting most people to read this! Like I had said, contractions felt to me to be starting up again, and I was right. I began to dilate again to a 4 and was told at that point there isn't exactly any turning back. Even if labor didn't progress further, I wouldn't be leaving the hospital until a baby came.

Many of you know that it was highly recommended for me to have a c-section due to my severe hip problems, and we were planning to. However, my doctor is now saying she thinks it would be better to go a normal route. They say the baby wil be 4 lbs or less, which means a possibility of less trauma from the baby moving through the birth canal, less pushing, and they intend to be really careful with placement of my legs as well. All of those things added to the trauma with Cam's delivery. After much thought and a sweet blessing from Matt, we have decided to go that route, avoid major surgery, and have faith that things will turn out alright. There was also some risk that I had eaten a big lunch when they initially thought labor had stopped, as they don't like to do surgery on a full stomach since it increases the risks of certain other problems.

After waiting for quite awhile the contractions were getting pretty severe and I went ahead with the epidural...yay! Unfortunately now I have been stuck at a 5 for awhile without progressing and they aren't sure why since contractions have continued just as regularly. I'll be checked again at 6 am and we'll go from there. The options as I understand them are to remove the epidural and watch my progress for awhile, or to give me pitocin or break my water and get things moving, the second being more likely.

I've now been in labor a little over 24 hours and I'm going a little stir crazy since I couldn't sleep last night from the contractions, and after trying for the last 6 hours I haven't been able to sleep much tonight either--oh the joys of labor! If anyone out there is bored at 4 am, feel free to visit. Just kidding--totally kidding! That's all for now folks!

Erggghhhhh.....

I love Cameron, I love being able to have kids. I don't love being pregnant, and apparently it doesn't like me either. I started having contractions last night, and honestly thought it was nothing except my back was really hurting, so I called my doctor. They sent me in to labor and delivery and I figured it would be nothing and I'd be home in a couple of hours. Turns out I am dilated and effaced beyond what I should be at 33 weeks. I've had three shots and 4 pills to stop the contractions, as well as a few other tests to rule out any other problems. The contractions stopped for awhile, although they are picking up a little again and my doctor is worried about this baby coming! We definitely weren't prepared for that when we woke up this morning.

Anyhoo...if they can get the labor to stop we can head home tomorrow with orders of strict bedrest. Yipee! I've had my first round of steroid shots to help this little guy's lungs in case anything does happen early, but I'm definitely feeling nervous about a pre-term baby. Please keep us in your prayers! We'll keep you posted (if anybody still reads this thing)!

Cameron at 16 months

Cam seems to be growing so quickly these days I can barely keep up. He is getting taller and taller, but has stayed pretty thin. He is a tiny guy. He is taking one nap a day now and learning lots of new things everyday. He is a major daddy's boy. He still has quite the temper and seems to be experiencing his "terrible twos" just a little early! He loves bananas, grapes, eggs, pancakes, peaches, ice cream, pizza, peanut butter and jelly, and just about anything sweet. He gives kisses, waves hi and bye, beeps his and other peoples noses, gets into absolutely EVERYTHING, dances, claps, etc etc. He is such a joy in our home and makes us laugh everyday...and sometimes cry. Just kidding. Ok, not kidding.

He can say:

duck, doggy, daddy, mama, please, all done, fish, no, uh-oh, stinky, baby, thank you and a few other words I can't think of at the moment!

We love you Cameron!

Anyone think he looks like a cat burglar? I do!Cam pulled all the toilet paper off of a brand new roll while I wasn't watching for a couple minutes!
Playing at Ikea
Told you he was growing up fast...

First fat lip...
Playing in the snow

Grandma and Grandpa Goodrich

My Dad's parents are getting pretty old. They are both in their nineties and in June will celebrate 70 years of marriage. 70!!!! That's insane!

Anyway, neither of them are doing very well. My Grandpa seems to have had a quick onset of Alzheimers and is deteriorating quickly. Grandma has good moments and bad moments with the same type of problem, and physically both are in poor health. My siblings and I thought it would be nice to make a quick trip out to visit in case it may be the last time we see them.

Since my Grandpa tends to be overwhelmed by too many people, and can't remember a lot of people these days, we left all the kids and spouses home. My brothers and I had a lot of fun spending the day together driving out to Tridell, talking about good memories and just being goofy.

Grandpa was having a good day when we got there, and was hilarious. He remembered us (or at least said he did) but had difficulties with following the flow of the conversation. He would say the strangest things at the strangest times. My Grandma told him not to stand up because he wasn't wearing any pants. He looked at her with doubt all over his face and said, "I'm not wearing any pants??? Now that's a new angle!" Before we left for the day I played the piano and we sang a little bit, because both of my Grandparents have always loved music. It was a really special opportunity to spend the day with them. I love them both so much and have so many wonderful memories with them. I only hope and pray that they can be comfortable and just be together for their last days on earth.

Happy New Year!

We have a tradition of having a little party with my family on New Years Eve, complete with lots of treats, games and fun together. This year was no exception. We had a great time at my brother's house. New Years with young kids isn't quite like it used to be though...

We were all so tired long before midnight that we ended up just watching Despicable Me, which was hilarious, saying a quick "happy new year" and heading for home right after. Still...we had a good time.

Cam reading National Geographic with Daddy and Grandpa
Playing with grandma
Poor grandma...
My white elephant win for the night!

The Sensational Six

Right after Christmas we were able to get the sen 6 together...all of us! We haven't all been together for quite awhile, so it was lots of fun. We had dinner, white elephant gifts, games, and lots of catching up with each other. We are so thankful for our awesome friends!

Ryan, Nikki and Ella, Andy and Brittany, Jae, Bryan and Katie, Matt and me, James and Allison.

This year we all agreed that our while elephant gifts were collectively...kind of....lame. Matt and I, however, had the hit of the night. We wanted to give a picture of all of us together, but thought it would be funny if we covered the real picture with something a little more funny. This is what we came up with. We were all laughing so hard, I was literally crying. Jae and James actually arm wrestled over this handsome picture of Matt, and I am told that the picture is now actually sitting on the mantle at Jae's parents' home. Too funny....

Christmas Eve and Christmas

Behind again....grrrr.

This pregnancy is getting tougher as we go along, which makes it harder each day to get anything worthwhile done. Not that it wasn't expected, but still, some days are pretty hard. I've been in physical therapy which helps to a degree and Cameron has learned how to entertain himself a little more while I'm laid up on the couch. Three more months...yay!

Anyway, we had a nice Christmas season. We spent Christmas Eve at my parents doing the nativity, singing around the piano, appetizer dinner and lots of fun.

Cam testing out his new Mr. Potato Head glasses.
Reading a Christmas story with Grandma

Christmas morning we spent at our house. Cameron had a lot of fun opening a few presents, and mostly just playing all morning.



Our Christmas tree is so small you can't really see it behind us...hee hee.
Cam on our way to Matt's parents. Crazy hair!
Taking a break from opening presents to play.
And play some more...
Grandma helping Cameron with his stocking.
Finally we make a quick stop back over to my parents.
Merry Christmas!