Just Another Jenn

So, I wanted to write all about my experience with birthing Elijah. I had a great story to tell about how the anesthesiologist was just like the doctor from Knocked Up and how he told me that I have scoliosis just as he was shoving the needle in my back. I also wanted to talk about the hospital experience as a whole but then I remembered…..

 

I am on maternity leave from THAT HOSPITAL. The one which provides me and my family with a regular paycheck and insurance. So writing about my experience there, should it be anything less than perfect, would be….stupid. And my friends, I try to limit the stupid in my life to the weekends only.

 

Instead I will tell you that I am not good at pushing out babies unless there is pitocin involved and where there is pitocin….there are epidurals. After 13 hours at a 4 and lots of walking, massaging, and praying I finally gave up my vision of a natural birth and once the epidural was in, baby was out in 1.5 hours. In case you are wondering if you choose to wait until right before you push to get an epidural and you have your baby at 2 am in the morning…you will still be numb at about 12 noon the next day. Super.

 

He was so perfect, just like they all are when they’re born. The air gets sucked out of the room and you feel like angels are siting on your bed, watching you welcome a little miracle into your arms. I hate pregnancy, sorry peeps but it is true. I turn into a hormonal maniac. However, giving birth is magical and completely worth 9 months of cankles, crying and horrible clothes that all somehow involve bows and or things that tie.

 

Eli will be 3 months old on Friday and I am just weeks from returning to work. He is an amazing baby, all smiles and coos - he is just what I always wanted him to be. He sleeps like a champ and looks just like his brothers (that is to say, just like his father). While I am still bitter that I never birthed a dark haired, dark eyed little portuguese baby I am still in love with all of them.

 

To all of you that have inquired about the website and why I haven’t been writing - honestly the transition to 3 children was really overwhelming. Joshua had an extremely hard time with the change and required a lot of my time. Also, since having Eli we entertained for Thanksgiving (I fed 13 people), we did Christmas (again 13 people) and we moved to a new house the week after Eli got over pneumonia. Really, it hasn’t been a barrel of monkeys at our house these days.

 

We are however, settled and I am intent on enjoying these next few precious weeks before I go back to work and experience yet another transition.

 

Here are some pics to make you smile….

 

 

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