Discharged (Jamie this time)

Thanks to Danielle for keeping the world updated! I think she did a great job.

Okay, so here's what happened...

Early Wednesday morning around 2 am, I awoke to my water breaking. This occurred without any other warnings that labor was imminent, so I was quite surprised and wasn't even really sure what was happening. Anyway, I managed to get myself checked into the hospital, and called Jeff in his room to let him know what was up. Luckily, Jeff was feeling okay and managed to make his way down to the delivery room. I pretty much breezed through the first 10 hours of labor and was fully dilated by about noon. Unfortunately, after 2 hours of pushing, Little JD was stuck in my inadequately sized (from front to back anyway) pelvis. The doctors decided that with a little more pushing, they may be able to get him out with the vacuum, but after 2 more hours it was obvious that Little Jeff wasn't going to fit through. So, off we went to the operating room, where Jeff and I heard for the first time, "it's a boy, and he's a big boy!"

Oh, what a feeling! After 3 months of the worst stress you can imagine, we finally have something to feel amazing about. Little JD is the most beautiful little thing I've ever seen. I don't think that we realized what sort of emotions we would feel after the baby was born, but I know that I am still not down off of the high that I've been on since Wednesday night.

Jeff has had a couple of pretty rough days...he's now on a morphine drip and being fed intravenously, but the next couple of days should see his counts rise and his body will start feeling as good as his heart.