corraine: Raglan Hai Waldron

the past few weeks i have been recovering from giving birth to our sweet baby boy and getting the hang of being a new mother, so that would be the (very good) reason why i have not posted anything about baby till now. we are such proud parents and so in love him.

here is our little guy.

just one day old.

raglan hai waldron

raglan is 5 1/2 weeks old now and already has grown so much since birth! i cannot believe how fast a baby can grow. we had decided shortly after finding out i was pregnant that i would have a natural birth... no pain meds or other drugs. we took a 12 week class with the bradley method so we had planned on laboring as long as i could at home. ryan is a certified doula and was a wonderful husband couch while i was laboring. i'm not much of a story teller but here are some details from the birth...

june 21 at 11:30pm i felt my first real contraction. i was able to sleep through my contractions till about 6am. ryan helped me with relaxation and getting through the contractions. about 8am the contractions started to get pretty strong as they came to the peak. i felt that a bath would help me out so ryan ran me a bath and i got in about 9am. after being in the bath for a short time i realized that i really could not relax through the contractions and that was when ryan said we needed to go to the hospital right away. i did the best i could to get dressed and head out the door with contractions that were doubled on top of each other and only seconds apart! that was not an easy thing to do (turns out i was holding the baby in... very painful and something we did not plan for). i was in a lot of pain and it really came on fast for me. the whole car ride there i kept telling ryan that the baby was coming and i was trying my best not to push. i really could have had the baby in the car, no joke. ryan drove as fast as he could down PCH to the hospital and we arrived at 10:15am. i got onto the delivery bed at 10:17am where the nurse checked to see how far along i was. she told us i had no cervix and was completely dilated! baby was coming now! things happened real fast at this point and my waters ruptured at 10:24am and after four pushes baby boy came out at 10:41am on june 22, 2013...

20 inches long 7 pounds 5 ounces.

10 fingers 10 toes and as strong as an ox.

alert, calm and healthy.

i felt so good after the birth and was wanting to walk to the recovery room, but hospital policy forced me to sit in a wheel chair while the nurse took us to the recovery floor and into our room. we only stayed for one evening and headed home with our perfect little baby.

now for some pictures :)