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Our little boy has arrived!

Our little guy made his grand entrance into the world on October 20th at 9:29 a.m.  To make a crazy birth story short, I was scheduled for an induction at 6 a.m. that morning, but started having contractions at home at 4:30.  They were about 12 minutes apart while headed to the hospital, but once I was in the bed getting hooked up to the monitors they quickly became about 5 minutes apart and they didn’t feel good!  I was officially in labor all on my own!  By 8:30 they were starting the epidural process.  At 9 a.m. the epidural was being placed, but at the same time my contractions got super intense and were about 2 minutes apart.  By 9:10 I was screaming at anyone that would listen “somebody please help me!!”  The doctors kept telling me to give the epidural a little more time to work.  All the while, I was never checked to see how far dilated I was until I was screaming so loud that my nurse finally checked me.  At 9:15 I was 9 cm and she was calling the doctor.  The doctor came in and said “ok you are going to have this baby in 2 pushes” and by 9:29 I delivered a healthy 7 lb 10 oz baby boy without a working epidural! 
It was a whirlwind to say the least.  The epidural finally kicked in and I could not feel my legs for the next two hours.  So glad that $2,600 Anesthesiology bill was worth it (NOT!)
So Mr. William Steven is absolutely perfect.  He was born with a perfect little round head and not a blemish on him.  He was so incredibly tiny compared to Maddie.  The same little clothes that fit her in the hospital swallowed him whole.  I kept wanting to call him “Maddie” or “her” at first because he reminds me so much of Maddie!!   
It has been three weeks now since William arrived and I can honestly say that he is a really good baby.  He doesn’t really fuss and seems pretty laid back.  He is going to have to be with his silly big sister around.  Maddie loves him so much and wants to help out, although she hates to hear him cry.  She has knocked him in the head with a sippy cup and tried to pull him out of his crib, but I guess it will make him a stronger kid.
At two weeks he weighed 8 lbs 6 oz.  Our little chunky monkey gained a pound in one week!  William is already changing so much and getting so big.  He eats 3-4 ounces about every three hours and sleeps three and four hour stretches at night.  It is exhausting mostly because I have to care for a toddler during the day as well.  It is still hard to believe that we are the parents of two children. 
We have tons of pictures so far, but here is just a recap of the past three weeks…

Our family of FOUR!

Going home…

{one week old-first bath at home}

Halloween-11 days old!

William is already trying to yell at Maddie!!

Three weeks old-already a big boy in the bath!