He is Here!!!

Benny is happy about being a big brother. He likes giving baby Timmy kisses.

It all started Sunday night. Contractions started around 7:30pm. Brad and I went to bed around 9:30pm. At about 3am I decided I could take no more, so we got up (including Benny) and headed off to the hospital. We arrived there by 4am. I was dilated about 3cm but was soon up to 4 or 5 cm in an hour. I was admitted and we actually were put into the same room that we had when was born. Once my epidural was in, the contractions starting slowing down so they gave me some meds and things got going again. Unfortunately, my ob/gyn was off that day, but his assistant was on call. She was great. It was a whole different delivery with Benny. I think Brad may have felt out numbered with all the women in the room. I actually pushed for about 2 hours. At 4:37pm on Monday (2/22/10) Timothy Edward Heilenman was born. We stayed in the hospital until Wednesday (2/24/10). We are all safe and sound at home.

Baby Update

Well, I had another doctor's appointment today. I was hoping to be told I had started dilating, but no such thing. He said that even if he wanted to induce me, it wouldn't be a good idea. So now we wait. If baby Timmy doesn't make an appearance over the weekend, then we are scheduled to go in Tuesday night (9pm) and the doctor will hopefully deliver Timmy on Wednesday morning (7am). He is squeezing me in because he has a c-section to perform later that day. Not to mention my parents fly in around noon that day as well, so both the doctor and Brad have somewhat of a deadline. Even though I don't really want to wait that long (due to aches, pains and acid reflux) it is nice to know there is an end in sight. I also hope Timmy waits, because my doctor is not on call this weekend. He didn't get a chance to deliver Benny and he is hoping to deliver Timmy. We are not sure what we are going to do with Benny. Either he will come with us to the hospital or he will have to stay over at someones house. We will play it by ear though and just wait on God. Thanks for all who have graciously volunteered to watch Benny for us. Keep us in your prayers.