Baby Carter

So everyone has been asking for the story so I thought that since I'm finally feeling a little better today that I would just post a blog about it.

Tuesday October 23rd I went to work and was really struggling for the first time with pain. I thought it might be contractions but everyone said you would just know and I didn't feel like "I knew" yet so I didn't make anything of it. By the time I drove home they were every 6 minutes but when I went for my check up they scheduled a date to be induced so I thought I was going crazy.

By the time John got home they were just getting worse so I pretty much decided that this was it. My contractions were still 6 minutes apart at that point so we went out to Five Guys as my last super and a Halloween store to try and pass the time. At around 8:30 the contractions had been 3-5 minutes apart for 2 hours so we went in. Unfortunetly I didn't progress any at the hospital over a one hour time period so they kicked me out and I was not happy at all! They gave me some percocet and promised it would help so I left somewhat willingly. It didn't. So we ended up back at the hospital around 1:00am because I was in so much pain.

I was only 1 cm more than when I had left but at around 1:45am they decided to admit me because my pain was so bad and they were worried about fetal movement. I got the epideral as FAST as I could and then I was a happy camper. They decided to induce because of the fetal movement but after a couple hours they broke my water and I was doing fine on my own. John and I were both able to sleep some and then at 7:45am I started to push and after 45 min he just popped out!

Born at 8:33am October 24 2012

6 pounds 14 ounces 19 inches

Carter John Bainbridge

(Can you believe this amazing smile John has! Probably the only time I'll ever get a picture with him smiling like this.)

I pretty much loved the hospital for the nursery and the room service but hated all the nurses and other people coming in and bugging us.

(The cute name tag they made for us!)

(I look horrible but oh well, he is cute!)

We left Friday morning into the bitter cold and I made John drive super slow to make sure Carter was safe.

I didn't do so well the first couple days but now I feel a lot better. John has been simply amazing! He stayed with me one night in the hospital which I was very grateful and then when we got home he did dishes, laundry, cooking, and basically anything I wanted.

We love our little man!