Time Flies

Wow I can't believe it has been a month already!! Time has been going by so fast, and Landon is getting so big! Last Saturday we had a shower for him so that all our family and friends could come and see him. It was fantastic to see everyone!

He was exhausted after the party! 

This was the cake that Clarissa made for his monster theme shower! 

The first couple of weeks have been amazing and difficult at the same time. Landon was about two weeks old and I got Mastitis, that was not fun! It really affected my milk supply and that has been extremely frustrating! I was a bit of an emotional mess because I had to put Landon on formula. Whats even more frustrating than not being able to breastfeed, is that fact that everyone has been acting like someone died when tell them I've had to switch to formula, they always respond with "Aw I'm so sorry". It was hard enough to convince myself that formula isn't bad for Landon and not feel guilty about the whole situation that it makes me feel bad every time I talk to people about it. I guess I shouldn't say every time I talk about it, it's only when I talk to people that have never struggled with something like this.

It is so amazing to see how big he is getting already! I can't believe I am a mom! Well there is tons to do so I better get going!

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Finally

So I am finally able to blog after my little Landon has arrived. This new mamma has been very busy!

I went into labor in the middle of the night on Wed. the 16th. So we head to the hospital. We had several scary complications but God was good and everything turned out fine! Our little one is perfect, and praise God he does not have Down's Syndrome!

So because many people have been asking about Landon's birth and how it went I thought I would just post it so that any one can read it.

We went into the hospital at about 3:30-4 am. At the time we didn't know if we were going to be staying, the nurse needed to check me in an hour to see if/how much I was progressing. She checked me right away to see how far along I was (about 2cm). When she came in to check to see how I was doing I had dilated  to about 3cm, by then my doctor was going to be coming in within the next hour so they decided to keep me there. So she wanted to check in another hour at that check I had gone from 3cm to 6! Things started moving very quickly! I got my epidural and I thought I was working, I could feel my contractions but was able to talk through them. As things progressed even more I was in more and more pain and very uncomfortable. It was determined that my epidural was not working. They had to redo it. The second time around worked great, I felt nothing from the waist down. I was finally able to get some much needed rest. As my contractions started getting stronger my little Landon's heart rate was dropping, they weren't to worried because as soon as my contraction would end it would come back up. To be on the safe side they had my stay laying on my side and I had to be put on oxygen. When it came time to start pushing they started to worry a little bit more, Landon's heart rate stopped coming back up after my contractions, so I was given the option of having a c-section or having them use the forceps. I opted for the the forceps, and man did they have to PULL him out, the nurses had to hold me on the bed my doctor was pulling so hard. After about 45 min. of pushing our little Landon was here and perfect!

Landon James Ehle was born on March 16th, 2011 7lbs. and 20 in. long! Thank God he was not any larger!