Congrats!

We just wanted to give a warm congratulations to Nicole and Eric Olson who welcomed Ella Elizabeth this morning at 7:39am, 9 days early! We also wanted to congratulate Tasha Davies who welcomed Grayson Roland Davies on January 28th at 1:00am. God has blessed all of our families in the past few weeks. We are wishing them all the best!

I think he woke up more handsome today!

6 days old

6 days old

Rogan 6 days old

Daddy and Rogan

5 days old

It is AMAZING how much more I can fall in love with my son everyday! I was playing with him this morning and decided I think he got even more handsome over night. Obviously I am very biased :) We are working really hard at getting Rogan into a routine. nap time at 10 and 2 and trying to get him to recognize days and nights. Wish us luck! Last night was a little scary for me. I woke up around midnight with chills so bad I couldn't hold Rogan. I think it is probably just my hormones adjusting, but it sure scared me. I continued to have chills and night sweats through the night, but and feeling much better this morning! My mom said she might have the flu so hopefully it is just my body adjusting and not something more. Here are a few new pictures from last night and this morning. Rogan was cooperative for his naked photos! He was awake , not crying and not going potty on me! GOOD WORK!

Rogan Update!

Kisses from Mommy

5 days old

Kisses for momma!

Fink girls and their boys

Elijah "holding" Rogan

Rogan 3 days old

Freezing baby! 3 days

Rogan's first bath at home-3 days old

Rogan & Daddy getting some "Daddy time"

Rogan and his godmother Emily

G-ma Fink and G-ma Buresh with Rogan at 1 hr old

Proud Papa holding his son for the first time!

Ok, so it has taken a few days for things to settle down enough for me to be able to get the blog updated! We were released from the hospital Friday. Rogan's weight was down over 10% so we had to get checked on Saturday morning. The Dr. said he was looking a little jaundice when we were there. She said it wasn't bad, but we just needed to watch it. By Saturday evening we were in the emergency Room....A LITTLE SCARY!!! His number was at 11.7, we would need to consider lights at 12. Luckily, however, my milk came in Saturday morning so now he is gaining weight and looking much better according to his pediatrician this morning. We hopefully won't need to go back for another 3 weeks :) The first two night home were a little rough. My sweet little son decided night time was daytime. He was up from 12am until 7am without a single minute of sleep. Last night we switched from his basinette to the pack and play and had much better luck! He slept from 10-12:30 and 2:30-7 only getting up to eat! WHOOOOA!!!! Gotta love that! Hopefully he wil do the same tonight, although I am not holding my breath. Daddy went back to work today and is playing with him now. I think they really missed each other! That is about all for now. We are just loving every second of our new son, even the trying moments are wonderful because we know they will go all too fast. I have uploaded a few pictures from the other day. I will try to have a fun Rogan photo session tomorrow if he is cooperative and get some fun photos uploaded :) I am sure he will love every second of his crazy mothers antics!

Rogan Anthony Buresh

He is here!!! Rogan Anthony Buresh was born at 8:37pm on 1-21-2009. He weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and is 20 1/2" long! He has LOTS of dark hair!!! I went in wednesday morning and was given some cytotec. I was only given one dose and labor progressed on it's own from there! By noon the dr came and broke my water. We had a slow afternoon. At 6pm I was only dilated to 5 1/2cm. At 8pm I asked the nurse to check me because I was ready to take a nap and didn't want her to wake me up to check if I was actually going to be able to get some rest. We joked that if I was ready to go, everyone was just going to have to wait until after my nap for me to push. We assumed I was no further than 7cm or so. She checked and sure enough Rogan was ready to make his grand entrance! She said he was very low so she thought I actually had been at 10cm for a while! So, we called the dr and got ready for delivery. One of my dr's partners happend to be around so she was going to fill in until my r could get there. 5 contraction and a few pushes later, Rogan was born. My doctor missed the birth by a few minutes. I only pushed for about 20-25 mins! She was so upset that she missed it! Gabe was amazing through the entire labor and delivery process. Holding my hand every step of the way! I could ask for a better husband or son! We are at Bryan, so feel free to visit! We love to show Rogan off :) When he was first born everyone thought he looked just like me, and today I think he looks just like his daddy! He is changing so fast! I will get more pictures uploaded as soon as I get home, but here is just a quick shot of Rogan, and Rogan with G-ma & g-pa fink and his cousin Elijah.

FINAL BELLY PICTURES!

Well, it is 4:50am and we are just getting ready to head off to the hospital! We have taken what we are praying are our finally belly pictures! I got a little sleep last night, about 3-4 hours. I have been a little nauseous this morning, but I am pretty sure it is just due to nerves :) The induction will start at 6:00am. As I said before there is a chance the induction may not work and we will be sent home only to try again in a week. Please keep your thoughts and prayers with us today.

Induction Date

Hello all. Sorry it has been a little while since my last post. We had a doctor appointment today. I am dilated about a fingertip to 1cm and 60% effaced. We have set an induction date for Wednesday the 21st. We are going in at 6am to start cytotec. It is a pill that will help to soften and dilate my cervix. If it doesn't dilate me they will send us home and try again in a week. The doctor does not want to set us up for a situation that would call for a Cesarean if at all possible. I am trying to maintain a positive attitude, but I also don't want to set myself up for disappointment. I am going to go in on Wednesday with the attitude that the induction may not work and if it does...great! Please pray for Baby B and our family as we undergo this induction. Let's all pray that is works and we have a healthy baby boy this week!!! We are so excited to finally meet him as I know you all are too!

38 WEEK BELLY PICTURES!

Baby B @ 38 weeks 1 day!

That is one BIG belly! 38 weeks 1 day

38 weeks 1 day

It was brought to my attention how much my belly has grown over the past two weeks. It was also brought to my attention that I haven't taken any belly pictures in a while...so here you go! It seems like my belly has really dropped. Lat night I was having some really good painful contractions, so I am excited to see if we have made any progress. Everyone keep your fingers crossed for us that the doctor appointment goes well tomorrow!! I think I have decided that my last day of work will be January 16th assuming I don't go into labor before that. That will give me a day or two next week before induction to finish up some last minute things and rest a little for the last time for the next 25 years or so :)

DR. APPOINMENT

Today we had a doctor appointment. His heart rate is at 130bpm. They estimated his weight is about 7 lbs 1 oz right now. The doctor checked me and I was about 60%-70% effaced but am not dilated at all :( Dr. Hier-Duffin will check me again next Monday. If I am dilated next week she will induce on the 14th (I am not counting on being dilated!) If nothing significant has changed we are planning on inducing on the 21st. The doctor said ideally she would like to induce on the 16th, but she isn't on call again until the 21st, so we will have to wait to meet our little guy until then. I am still feeling pretty good, emotionally I am just very ready for baby B to get here and finding out we had to push the induction date back 5 days to fit it into her schedule was a little disappointing. Hopefully we will make some good preogress and be able to induce next Wednesday. Keep your fingers crossed for us!

FULL TERM!

I am officially 37 weeks today. There for a long time I never thought we would make it to this day. We are so blessed that Baby B has stayed put and let himself grow and develop. Now that I am full term I suppose I can deliver anyday. I have put off packing until last night. I was having some good contractions so I figured it would be wise to put a little bag together even if it meant surrendering my favorite sweatpants to the suitcase! I have my next doctor appointment on Monday, I am hoping she will set the induction date. One way or another we will have our son out of my belly in two weeks or less :) We are getting very anxious and excited. Thank you so much for your love and support throughout this wonderful experience!