Busy Busy

I have like...1 minute to spare before some little guy needs to eat:) I will update with pics soon. There has been many challenges this last week and many moments of grace!!! Please pray that God will Give me MORE grace as we get used to this new life:) My sin of needing to feel in control has been very apparent these last few days and I know God is doing a good work in me....but it still hurts. I am abundantly blessed with 3 wonderful men in my life right now!!!! James has been the perfect picture of a servant to us this last week, and i get to have another week with him!!!!!! Any how, gotta go....when do you find the time to blog anyhow with two????????

Birth Story ....finally

Hey all, Just thought I'd write a little about details of Seth's birth and life now in general. Boring stuff for some of you:) I am trying to find the time to get some more pics of the little guy on the blog.

As you all know, We went in Friday morning to be induced, Never haveing done that before, I was still a little concerned with how my body was going to react to making this baby come out. I was hooked up to pitocin at 7:30 am with a little crying because i wanted to see my doctor first. He was busy doing a c-section and I was used to haveing a midwife constantly caring for me. Anyhow, things were going smoothly and i wasn't feeling many contractions so they kept bumping it up and at 10:00 the doctor broke my water. From then on, I was in pain! The pitocin was horrible! So I finally asked for my epidural and low and behold, I was like number 4 in line to get it...ughh. At 11;00 I got my beloved epi and all was well. I enjoyed my jello and popscicles and started feeling a little queasy when I started watching ''the view''......that show was more painful to watch than my pitocin contractions:) I sent my mom out for lunch shorty after thinking this was going to take forever...i had been once again stuck at 4cm. for a long time, I called the nurse in around 1;30 because I felt a lot of pressure and felt totally sure the epi was wearing off, and we COULD NOT have that happen, she checked me and said''honey your fully dialated!'' I then started profusely crying because I was so excited it was finally time to see my sweet baby!!!! I wanted to push so badly but they had to ''find'' my doctor!!!So at 2:oo he came in and I pushed till 2:14 and with no pain at all, my seth was born!!!!

Recover went well too. Seth started breastfeeding great from day 1. He was very healthy and had very low levels of biliirubin. Our rooms were very small and for a lot of reasons the morning after we wanted to be at home. So, they said all was well and discharged us the next afternoon. Jake had visited us in the hospital on saturday and the visit did not go as i had expected. I missed him so badly , I have only been away from him for 3 days once in his life. He came in and was so fearful of me and james and started crying for his ''maw-maw''. He wanted nothing to do with us....that really made me upset and a little fearful of what was to come. After luring him to me with a brownie, he started warming up to me and acting like his crazy self again. I think me in the hospital bed and the sterile room was a new scary sight to him. He hugged and kissed seth a lot at his visit too. The picture of Seth with all the monitor things on his face was the standard hearing test they give all babies. They did everything in the room. That is the new policy there, mother's keep babies 24/7. There were some things i liked and didn't like about that. I really think we might consider delivering somewhere else nexttime if Northeast does't expand there rooms like most other hospitals have. Keeping two adults and a baby in that cracker box room for 48 hours was not my idea of relaxing:)

Overall, I was really happy about the whole birthing experience. A little more painful than with Jake but still a mostly enjoyable experience. My ultimate expectation and hopes was to just have a healthy baby:) It was just as amazing to see and hold my sweet baby Seth as it was with Jake. We really felt the Lord's presence their in the room with us that day. He was so kind to give us a safe delivery and the most beautiful baby in the world!


oh, and the pic of all the wires on Seth was the standard hearing test they give all newborns, they usually do that in the nursery but since it is a ''koala care'' hospital, they did that in our rooms.

Pictures!!!!!!!!

Ill write how life is going later....enjoy the epics of our newest Hasty Boy!!!!!!!

We are Home!!!!

I know I know, I have yet to upload all the pics but will try on Monday. We actually got home yesterday early evening. We were not very comfy at the hospital so asked if we could leave. All looked well so 24 hours after giving birth we came home;) I will write a little later about the birth story (it was really neat) and my sweet little baby Seth. He has thick dark hair and is kinda hairy...he's our little monkey:) I am very tired as last night was really, really hard. And the nursing pain is starting all over again-even with what seems like a good latch. So as I get to know my little one and rest a little, I will post pics and more baby info:)

Also, we would love visitors if anyone wants to come over....just call to see when a good time is.


Pictures comeing soon! Thanks for all your prayers....

HE'S HERE!!!

Seth Jameson Hasty made his entry into the world at 2:14PM! He weighs 7lbs 10oz. More details soon...

Thanks all for the prayers and encouragement! Turns out I will have my friend Dena update my blog when baby arrives and maybe pics when she can.

happy-day-your-only-ESTIMATED-to-be-due-day!!!!

Yup, here we are. Forty weeks under my belt (literally) and baby Seth is still as cozy as ever. Went in this morning for my last appt. and there has been STILL NO PROGRESSION!!! Ya know what tho, I really don't care at this point. I have my induction for friday morning with the doctor whom i love (Dr. Jones) and my house is clean, last load of laundry done, painted toes, bags officially packed and childcare taken care of...whew! Im ready! I just have this feeling that even if I were to wait till 41 weeks, I would still have to be induced. I feel he will go no where on his own. I still am told by my doctors that my labor should go smoothly, given i am already progressed with a favorable cervix, but i do understand that there is always a risk in this situation. Please pray that the baby does well and so do I. Pray that I don't let fear overtake my thoughts and all the ''what-ifs''. God has a GOOD plan for this baby and I, and I really need to trust that He has what's best for us on friday. I have been a little weepy these last days knowing that life is about to change forever. I love my Jacob sooo much and wonder how in the world i am going to love Seth as much. I know these are my final moments with jake and i am really trying to not spend all of them crying and telling him how much i love him, because he tends to look at me like i've gone nuts and tries to console me. I am trying to have fun and get in some last reading on the couch cuddle time. God has blessed us so incredibly much and we are so undeserving of the two little boys we are about to have, I know His grace will flow abundantly in the challenging moments of the next few weeks and I will be taught more and more what it means to be sanctified to look more and more like HIM. Oh, I am so excited to finally meet my little one whose been bruising my insides every night at 11:00 and get to hold and look at the eyes of another undeserved blessing.
I probably won't post again till I'm home but I know my blog readers aren't that many, so most likely you will be called or get a call from someone else when Seth is born. When I get home hopefully Sunday I will try to post pics and stuff. Thanks for your many prayers!!!!!

News

hey everyone, I went to the Dr. on wednesday and had no progression:( My Doctor did say that I could induce whenever I was ready, since my cervix was favorable. After being heavily enticed by the offer, and after some prayer, we decided it was a bit too early for that route. We have decided that if the baby doesn't come before next friday the 22nd, we will be induced that morning at 5:30 am. At that point I will be a couple days overdue and we feel at peace about serving little Seth his eviction notice:) His lease is almost up:) My doctor's don't induce past 41 weeks anyhow so friday seemed to be a good day for a birthday. We are really praying for little Seth to come on his own.....there is still something exciting about wondering ''is this it?'' and being almost ready to strangle my husband for hitting every pot hole on the road or driving in the emergency lane in 5:00 traffic to the hospital because we think we might deliver in the car:) crazy I know, but it brings us closer together.hahah. So, anyhow, please keep us all in your prayers in the coming days. I am going to try to keep myself busy in the meantime and walk a lot! I will post if there is any news....i've always wanted to go into labor and do a blog post, that would be kinda neat to look back on, we will see how that one turns out. I also have some cute pics of Jakes little birthday party a couple weeks ago to post. We celebrated early so I knew he would actually get one. His birthday is actually the 30th.
That's all for now:)

Baby Update

Good news!!!!
I went in this morning and now I am 2 cent.!!!!! so I went from .5 to a 2 in one week! The bad contractions I had on sunday really did something:) The doctor said this baby is really starting to signal he wants OUT!! YAY! I go in next wednesday again and will be 39 weeks. We are getting there:)

Summer Pics

Here are a few pics for your viewing enjoyment:)

37 week belly

This will be the last pic you see of me pregnant...unless I get incredibly bored in the next few weeks and suddenly desire to take another picture of my very pregnant belly(and body!!!)
Maybe next, I'll do countdown to weight LOSS pictures:) I sure am ready to shed this baby fat:)

Nada, Zip, Zilch,Nothing......

IS GOING ON DOWN THERE!!!!!!! I have not even progressed from last week. So don't feel like you have to check the baby blog update daily because it looks like little Seth is having a perfectly good time perfecting his boxing skills INSIDE my belly!!!! :)
(please note: I am not sinfully complaining about no progression....I simply am so EXCITED for WONDERFUL little babies to make their appearance....I KNOW it is God's perfect timing for this little one to come!!!!! I just can hardly stand to not be holding him and looking at the face of my little miracle!!!!!

Stay tuned(could be weeks:)

I'll post THE LAST belly pic soon:)