Our New Little Life

Ever is a week old today, and I feel like time is going by way too fast already. He is quite the eater, sleeper, and diaper messer and although the nights are pretty rough because he wakes up so often to eat, we are both loving our new life as parents.

I just wanted to post some pictures of him....seems that's all we're taking pictures of now....so everyone back home and elsewhere can see how adorable he is! Everyone seems to agree that he looks a lot like Dimas. He does have my hair color and texture though...it's a really nice dark chestnut brown. His eyes still look dark grey. I'm pretty convinced they're going to be brown but we'll see! We love you all and can't wait until Ever gets to meet all of his family and friends. :)

A Few more pics

Immediately after Ever was born. Crystal and her mom, Luz. Doesn't Crystal looked relieved?

*Note from the future* - I had to delete a couple of these pics due to my wonderful husband posting ACTUAL PICTURES OF MY BOOBS ON THE INTERNET.....!!! While it is nice to have some personal pics of Ever's first breast-feeding session, I, ummmm....don't like them on the interwebs.  You are forgiven, Dimas.  However, my mom looks so pretty here.  I look like a scary horror film scene, but my mom's prettiness wins.  This one can stay. :)

Ever Dimas Garcia

Here he is! All 7 pounds 2 ounces of him! 19 inches long and a big ol' 13.75 inch head! He's perfect and very calm right now, he's just kinda lookin around at stuff, trying to figure out where he just woke up. I'll upload more pics later. Thanks for all the well wishes and prayers that everyone sent our way, we really appreciate it and I'm sure they helped. Crystal never got any pain meds and she just won the Birthday Super Bowl, what a warrior. She was joking throughout the thing, and smiling in between the contractions! We'll be out of here on Friday, as they said that she'll be good to go by then since her's was a natural birth. Again, thanks everybody and Happy Birthday Ever!
p.s. I cut the umibilical cord...wtf?!

Geez, ridiculous

Poor crystal, she just got finished with an hour-long stress test. Her contractions are more frequent now and she's obviously in a lot of pain. Currently, she's 5-6 cm dilated and 90% effaced and the pain is coming on strong. She's such a trooper, she is still adamant about not using any kind of pain medication. No epidural, nothing. The nurses here came in to say "you go girl" because she's trooping along. In about an hour and a half, they're going to check again. She's walking around the room now, very upset at life. As a matter of fact, she's leaning on a table, swaying back and forth trying to ease the pain in her back and the little pain in her front. We'll keep you posted.

Labor is stupid

and painful. And dumb and other such things. I'm in between contractions and they surely do hurt....sad thing is I know that I haven't seen nothin' yet. I'm lucky that I'm able to be up and about...in a rocking chair right now and it really does help. I recommend natural labor (so far!) Probably not so much in the next few hours. Oh, I snuck in a little donut at about 7am...I feel sneaky but I was soooo hungry. Anyway, I look like crap and don't even care! :D

Dimas is being wonderful, as I knew he would be. My mom is awesome and helpful and momlike. He's taking a slight nap right now, while he still can. Gonna try and do the same.

Love you all, we'll keep you updated!

Doing a check

The nurse is about to check Crystal right now. Crystal just said "Ack, more leakage." Nurse: "baby's head good against the cervix...real good against that...she's 4-70 (4cm dilated and 70% effaced)."
She's now being allowed to get up and walk around a little. We'll see if we can get her to blog real quick.

Technophiles

We will never part with our electronics. In life, nor in labor. Above is Crystal, texting, during labor.

Imminent breakage

Her water's broken and she's being really mean to me and her mom. Poor Luz, she's just trying to help, lol. Doctor came in, said she's at 3-4cm and asked Crystal if she wanted her water broken (in order to get this thing started!) and she said "..suuuuuuurrre...", obviously, not very sure of anything. The water was broken with a needle the size of a broomhandle and now her contractions are coming faster and are lasting longer. Now we wait. Keep you updated

We're Here!

Listen up people. We were just admitted to the United Hospital Center in Clarksburg, WV at 0600 hours local time. We arrived at approximately 0430 and Crystal was monitored for one and one half hours. Upon learning that she was 4cm dilated and "very thin", the nurses told Crystal and myself that she would be staying to have the baby (aka our son, aka Ever Dimas Garcia). We are now in the labor/delivery room 512 and getting comfortable, as it seems that we will be here for an extended period of time. This blog will remain updated throughout the delivery process.