Ian's Newborn Pictures

My amazing friend Laurel Hansen took these awesome picture of Ian a week ago. I love every single one of them. Thanks Laurel for doing them for us. Your the best! Ian has been such a blessing in our family. We love him to death. Being a Mom and Dad is a busy job, but we sure do love it.

Has it been a week already...

My baby is already a week old. I can't believe how fast time has flown. I seriously don't even remember what day it is half the time. We feel so blessed to have Ian come to our family. He is such as good baby. He only wakes up at night to eat , which is only twice. The one thing I was worried about before I had Ian was if he would be a good eater and sleeper. He is amazing, and sure makes my life better. We took him to his caring for baby appointment today, and he is right on track. He lost a little bit of weight in the hospital but it gaining it back quickly. Tomorrow my friend Laurel is going to take his newborn pictures. I can hardly wait to see her amazing work. Thursday he has his 10 day appointment with the pediatrician. I am not looking forward to that appointment because he will be getting circumcised. I think I will just leave the room when that happens. I hate when he cries and is unhappy. I just love being a Mom, and I love Ian so much. It is the best thing in the world! I do have to say I don't know how single Mom's do it. I am so thankful for Matthew, and what an amazing Dad he is.
(Here are a few pictures of Ian that they took at the hospital.)

Ian Bullinger Asay

Ian was born Tuesday May 10th at 7:09pm by c-section. He weighs 7 pounds 15 oz, and is 19.5 inches long. Monday morning I had a doctors appointment, and I had dilated to a 3 or 3.5, and my blood pressure was high once again. My doctor told us that because I had this high blood pressure for the last few weeks I could be induced if that was what I wished. I was so ready to not be pregnant, so we scheduled the induction for Tuesday morning. We went in at 6 am Tuesday morning, and they started to prep me for induction. They started pitocin around 9 am, but it didn't seem to help much with dilating. Dr. Minduri decided to go ahead and break my water to see if that would help. Then the contractions started really hurting, so I asked for a epidural around 2pm. (which was amazing to have) They had to keep turning off the pitocin because the contractions were coming on so strong that it was too much for Ian to handle. His heart rate was not were the doctor wanted it. After it was turned off for awhile we decided to try it again, but once again it was too much for Ian. Around 6 pm Dr. Minduri came in and said that he thought that I was not progressing any because Ian's cord was either wrapped around his leg or neck. We then decided that it would be okay to go ahead with a c-section. They stared to prep me for surgery, and they had Ian out not too long after. It was the craziest thing to be awake and feel no pain while my baby was being cut out of me. Sure enough his cord was wrapped around his leg, so it was making it hard for his head to go down far enough in my cervix to help me dilate all the way. It was the best feeling when I could hear my baby crying once he was pulled out.  We are so happy to have Ian here and healthy. I am so thankful for a wonderful doctor, and the amazing nurses I had while I was in the hospital. We just got home yesterday, and things are going great. We have enjoyed having my Mom and sister Sam here for a few days helping out. We sure do love our beautiful baby boy, and enjoy the blessing of having him in our family.

39 Weeks...

Oh man I am ever ready for our baby boy to be born. Yesterday I had a full day of a stress test in the morning which I do once a week at the hospital, and a doctors appointment in the afternoon. Everything is great with the baby, but my blood pressure was high again. I am usually only there for twenty minutes for these test, but I ended up being there for three hours. Which I am so glad they are taking such good care of me. They ran a blood test, and kept checking my blood pressure. By the time I left the hospital it had gone down, but the blood test were high. The nurse I had was such a sweetheart and gave me a 5 dollar coupon to eat at the cafe in the hospital because she felt bad for keeping me there so long. I ate a yummy chicken and rice lunch, and went down to the doctors office. I have dilated to a 3 now. Yahoo for progress. The doctor is concerned about the high blood pressure, so we are doing more tests. I have to collect my urine for 24 hours to be tested for protein. I go back to the lab this afternoon, and they will do another blood test as well. If the tests are reading high again my doctor says I will be having this baby. The doctor also said that the baby had turned a little so he is sitting sideways now. She said no matter what we will get that baby out and healthy. I am so thankful for great doctors. I am also thankful for my wonderful husband. He has been so calm and positive through all of this. It makes it easier for me to be calm and positive. I was blessed to receive a priesthood blessing from him last night. How very blessed I feel to have a husband who is worthy to have the priesthood. I also want to thank my friend Cody for bringing us dinner last night. She couldn't of chosen a better day to do so. I know that our Heavenly Father is going to help us through all of this, and we will in the end have a beautiful baby. I can't wait to become a Mom. . Well we will know more what is going on by this afternoon. Maybe the next post will be pictures of our sweet baby boy!