Home sweet home!

We are home! Enzo Fredric Anderst now joins our little family! This is how it all began...

Monday night went better than expected. I thought i would be nervous and scared but i was quite calm. I even told Peter that i truly could feel everyones prayers, so for those of you that were praying...THANK YOU! There was only one moment in the evening when i got emotional and that was after we put Rocco to bed. I was sad b.c i had to leave him for 3 days and I knew his life was going to change.
Tueaday morning arrives and we get up, get ready and head to the hospital. I sign in, they give me a gown and weird looking slippers and Peter and I are off to wait till they can find me a bed and send me down to the operating waiting room. At this point now they have assigned us a nursing student that by the end of the day I wanted to punch in the face. Miss eager beaver was fine at first and i had no problem with her being around...but then she was ALWAYS around. It was as if she was part of my experience and she just would not leave Peter and I alone. When I was waiting to go into the actual operating room i was obviously nervous and she was asking me if i needed to talk about my emotions...this is when Peter asked her to leave...it was awesome.
Anyways...then into the operating room i went! I was SOOOO scared for the needle, but everything went smoothly and then it was 9:48 am and i heard the most glorious cry! Enzo had arrived and everything was worth it for him.
The rest of out stay at the hospital was fine. I was pleasantly surprised at how good the food was. It was healthy and quite delicious actually, and I was so thankful for that. The only down fall to our stay was that I had to share a room with 2 other families. Not so fun when one of the moms is puking her guts out and all i could do is pray it would end soon. Thankful we pushed hard to get out of the hospital after 48 hours and sure enough we were out of there by Thursday morning! It was so nice to see sunshine again!
Now it's been 4 days and things are going so great. Our first night home was a dream. Enzo woke up twice and after feeding, her went right back to sleep! Last night was not so good, but i don't feel that anxiety I did with Rocco. I know there are going to be sleepless nights, but I look at his face and it's so worth it to me! He is also a good napper...for now, so i do get to rest during the day.
Well, i should get to feeding my little munckin so i'll keep posting on how things are going!

This is it. My last day of being pregnant and my last day of having a family of three. I can't believe it's finally here. It became very real to me last night when all my family members either came to visit me, or called me to wish me good luck and to make sure i would call them once baby is born. Right now all I can do is sit and think about when is going to happen to me tomorrow. I should probably be getting ready...as in packing and cleaning...but i feel like i need to take in my last moments of peace and quiet (Rocco is outside with his dad) before my life becomes busy with a newborn. I am mentally preparing myself for what is to come or at least when i think is to come. It may be much easier this time around but i have a funny feeling it will be about the same as it was with Rocco. Well, whoever is reading this, i would appreciate your prayers tonight (for sleep) and for tomorrow morning around 9:15am! Pray that both of us are happy and healthy!

3 to 4

In less than 5 days, my little family of 3 will be a family of 4! I am absolutely terrified and extremely excited all at the same time! I worry ab0ut how Rocco will react to the new baby, how fast or slow i'm going to heal, if breastfeeding is going to be successful this time, and the list goes on and on. I definitely feel more prepared for this baby, and yet i am still so nervous. I still sometimes can't believe i'm going to be a mother of 2...i'm going to have Kids...Children...Boys!

Day Out

Today was a great day. I had made plans with my best friend to go out for lunch and then help out with some wedding stuff. Lately i've been hesitant to go out anywhere b.c i move so slow and eventually i start to feel pain in all different parts of my body. But, bc i'm part of her special day, and b.c i have so much fun with her, i decided to suck it up and just go. I even told Peter i wouldn't be too long. Over 4 hours later I come home! I had such a good time out! I realized that I haven't been out just doing things that don't revolve around my kids...in a long time. I even bought myself 2 sweaters when we went to the mall! Really, it was nothing special, but it felt so good to be out and not worry about my little guy at home...who was in fact having a blast with his daddy! I unfortunately had to cut my time out a little short due to the fact that I felt like my unborn child was going to fall out...but that's how it goes when you're 37 weeks pregnant!
Anyways, i think i need to remember to have these kind of days once in a while to give myself a little bit of a break from being just a "mommy".