We Miss You Daddy!

Isaac and I headed home to Vernon a week earlier than Brad to get some extra visiting in with the grandparents. It's been great so far, but it's weird being here with Isaac and no Brad. So here are some pictures to show Brad and the rest of the family! Brad's family came for a visit to see the new baby. It's been such a blessing to have so much family visiting and helping us get through these first few crazy weeks! Thanks so much everyone. Grandma Rempel was a huge help...thank you so much!

I love it when he falls asleep in my arms!

Auntie Darcie meeting Isaac for the first time!

He looks so cute in red!

Proud Grandpa Weglo!

We miss you Daddy! Can't wait to see you soon!

What a busy week!

I can finally sit down and put some more pictures and the "baby birth story" on the blog. Thankfully my sister Laura has been able to post some initial pictures for me, but here are a few more cute ones that we took today and last night. I'm so glad we have a digital camera to capture all these great shots!

Our Christmas blessing!

Proud Grandma Weglo!

Proud parents!

At 3:35 am on Wednesday morning my water broke. We called the hospital and they said to come as soon as we could. We gathered our things and got to the hospital at 4:30. We just took our time because I wasn't having any contractions. Once we got to the hospital we found out that the baby had pooped, thus meconium inside of me. This was not a good thing obviously, so when the doctor arrived at 9:00am he attached a "thing" to the baby's head to monitor the exact heart rate of Isaac. I had yet to have a contraction, but once the doctor attached the wire thing I instantly started to have contractions every minute to minute and a half. Not fun. They were going to start me on a drip to get the contractions going but there was no need. I was soon moved into the delivery room to wait for my epidural. By noon I was already 5 cm. The epidural came just before two, and I was pretty much given full dosage, because I kept feeling the contractions. By 2:15 I was pushing, feeling nothing=)...gotta love those drugs. The doctor was called and we were waiting for him to come so that I could finisher delivery. He came just after 3:00 and Isaac was born at 3:19 pm. It was such an easy labour. We were even laughing between pushes. Little did i know the discomfort that came once the epidural wore off. I would have to say these last few days, and still now I am in more pain than Wednesday. I can't wait to feel "normal" again.

Isaac has been feeding well, and we're working on getting him on a feeding schedule. Right now he seems to think that he should sleep lots during the day and be wide awake in the night!

Overall he's a great baby and is very strong already. When he's awake, he moves his head around so much and is very active with his hands.

I better get back...hope you enjoy the pictures!

Isaac comes home...

It's a BOY!!

Isaac Chadwynne Rempel

December 5, 2007

3:19 pm

7 lbs 12 oz

Both Mommy and Baby are doing great!!