McLernon Family Blog

Finnley Benjamin McLernon, May 19, 2013, 11:43 PM Aunt Heather, Rosa and Finn  Baby Finn is here!!! We are so happy to have him.  He was born May19, 2013 at 11:43 at Kaiser Zion Hospital.  He was about 20.5 inches (one nurse said 21) and 7 pounds, 15 oz.  Ben and I check into the hospital at about 4 pm.  When I was triaged I was only 1 cm and my contractions varied from 4 minutes apart to 7 minutes apart.  The midwife at first was going to send me home (which is only a few minutes away), BUT Finnley had a couple heart rate dips while we were there, and she was concerned his placenta might not be holding up.  So, we were admitted--lucky us, because by the time I was admitted and rechecked I was 3.5 cm.  Sadly my labor room was freezing and at 5 cm I was chattering and really hurting with back labor. At this point I got an epidural which I was later sorry for and thankful for at the same time.   The big story, besides Finnley Benja...

Well, I think we are having a baby today.  I mean, I really thought we were because at about 3 or 3:30  am I started having contractions every 20 minutes, then 15.  At about 6 or 6:30 I texted my mom to come to Cali because today is the day (the contractions were not super strong, but they were strong enough and they lasted about 45-50 seconds).  At 7 am the contractions were about 14 minutes apart, and I decided to get out of bed.  And so I did. I was up for about 40 minutes and not a single contraction.  I laid down again and I had a contraction.  I have been up for about 20 minutes since then, and not a single contraction. Hmmm.  I still think today is the day because I am having other signs of labor (think mucus plug), but it seems if I am up, the contractions go away.  This kinda happened with Rosaleen too.  With Rosa, my water broke and it took about 6 hours for contractions to start.   As long as I laid down, they...

37.5 weeks Last blog I left you in suspense………..but as anyone reading this probably already knows, we are having a BOY!!!!! Yea! We are so excited to add a little brother to the family.   Things are really going to change around here.   I mean REALLY change.   Blue blankets, toy trucks, wow. Truly, we could not be happier to be having a baby boy.   Ben has started painting the room, surfing type theme, and we have quite a collection of boy clothes started.   Grandma Janet came to the rescue by making several new blankets for baby brother. Now if we could just get a name.   Hmmmm. Finnian, Rian, Benjamin, Adam……….. It is hard. Video totally unrelated to post, but super duper cute-- Rosaleen and Cousin Camdyn being princesses. I am 37 and half weeks and feeling great.   I still am having regular Braxton hicks, which sometimes can be annoying, but nothing serious.   I had a midwife appointment yesterday.   She didn’t measure my bell...