Joel and the 3 L's : Is it supposed to be that easy?

THE WORSHAM FAMILY IS OFFICIALLY A FAMILY OF FOUR!

The night of March 30, I could not sleep a wink. The anxiousness woke me up, as well as the kick in the ribs, at 3:30 am. I decided to go ahead and get up and take a bath and Pinterest to relax one last time. We headed out the door about 5:45 after taking one last family photo.

As soon as we walked in the door, I was trying to be strong but my eyes teared up as soon as we walked back into labor and delivery just thinking about the experience ahead. We got all hooked up-
1. IV in-not too bad even though her little bit of digging around with it was not fun!
2. Pitocin (sp?) started-of course my planning mind asked how long this would take to start making me be in agonizing pain....her answer "Anywhere from 20 minutes to several hours."
3. Blood Drawn- not bad at all though one lady in there thought it was April 1, the other put the blood pressure cuff on backwards and misspelled my last name.
OFF TO A GOOD START

4. Dr. Cole broke my water and Oh I knew what came next...
HERE COMES THE PAIN!
(Insert Joel's comment about how the hospital brings back pain of his arm..."really I hope your arm feels better, now get over here and let me squeeze your hand while I feel like I am being stabbed!" )

About an hour and a half of contractions that were I swear zero apart if that is such a thing, the epidural man came in. OH YAY!

5. They had to stop the pitocin because the guy had no chance of in between contractions to insert the epidural. He commented on how tight my ligaments were and how I must have had a lot of back pain..WELL YEAH! (Thanks friends that got me a massage even though I did not get to use it. Plan on making an appointment soon!) Epidural was not painful at ALL!

SUCH RELIEF!
(This is my I just had demerol, an epidural, and bag of fluid face; I can't believe I am posting this picture)

6. Seriously the most comfortable and relief I have felt in 2 months! Legs numb, contractions going but not feeling it, good nap. In my mind the worst was yet to come because after the epidural was when the drama started with Lilly.

7. Dr. Cole comes back in at 12:20 to comment about how full he is from a good lunch because I had already told him I wanted to have Levi and eat a late lunch because I was starving! He said OH OKAY, we are going to have this baby now. Here comes nurses, scrubs, stirrups, light and of course ME WANTING TO PANIC! Start time 12:38..... Baby at 12:46
REALLY THAT EASY???? I think I said that about 20 times!

He peed on me first thing! They weighed him in at 7lb 14 oz. YAY no 8lb baby!
Two hours later I was walking, yes walking, to my post delivery room! WOW
Thanks for all the visits, calls, texts, flowers, and gifts!

LEVI-He is just the cutest and so snuggly! He is so far a great baby minus the gas he keeps having that is hurting his tummy! The pediatric doctor said everything looked good on the XRay and nothing would need to be done about the mass/CCAM. I even questioned the pediatrician Wednesday when we went back and he said the same thing. When we go back in two weeks I planned to ask again. I have seen this thing for 3 months so I need to see the XRay for proof that nothing is there or whatever is there is tiny or whatever!

LILLY-She has definitely adjusted just as I thought she would. She is a GREAT helper and loves to hold him. Though in the hospital she just ignored him and I still think she might think he will be leaving at some point. Of course her sleep is all off track so that has been harder than dealing with a new baby. Hopefully our lives can get back to our new 'normal' soon and everyone can get back on track!

JOEL-He is head over heels in love with his 'boy.'I think is ready for everything to get back to 'normal' too! I am so glad he could have a boy to enjoy! He got some yard work done yesterday that he needed to get done. He has been so good to me in the past few weeks. He sent me a text when he went to get Lilly just saying how lucky he was and how proud he was of me. I think I might never delete that text!

LESLEY- I know I have said it several times but I could not be more thankful for just everything and I feel so blessed! I still am a little sore but mostly I am back to it. I know it sounds stupid but I am glad to be back to doing laundry, dishes, feeding babies, getting babies to sleep and more. I do not want to sit around and people act like I am useless and helpless. Getting back to the new 'normal' makes me feel good too!

Love Lilly's expression here!