It's a BOY!

He is FINALLY here!! Logan Andrew Wiens made his long awaited appearance on July 21st, 2007 at 5:04pm. He is a VERY healthy little boy - weighing 9 pounds 2 ounces (just like BOTH his daddy and Opa Wagenaar did when they were born!!) Mark and I have both decided that, although he is a little bit of a "porker", he is very much a keeper and we both love him so much!!

Here's how the story goes....

Thursday afternoon Mark was finished work much earlier than we expected, so we actually got packed up and headed out towards Kananaskis around 2ish. We got to Mount Kidd before my parents did, so we backed our trailer in to the back of the camping site (which we shared with my parents.) Mom and Dad got there later on in the evening and parked their 5th wheel infront of ours. We then had dinner together, visited with everyone else, and then I went to bed and Mark sat around the camp fire for a bit.

Friday morning Mark got up early to go golfing. He shot a 98, which he was pretty happy with. I spent most of the day napping in the 5th wheel or visiting with the other ladies. Mark got home around 1ish, we had lunch and then went to wine time with everyone. After wine time we took Duke down to the river and let him swim for a bit. That is when I first noticed I was a bit wet, but didn't take it too seriously. Mark made me go back to the trailer to lay down while he finished the walk with Duke. After dinner I was still leaking a bit - so I layed down some more, just to see what was going on. The leaking pretty much stopped after that, so I thought it was just a false alarm. We went to the campground's store for ice cream cones with my mom and dad and then had coffee with Uncle Bill and Auntie Wilma. It was while we were having coffee with them that I thought I was having mild contractions.

Because I tested positive for group B strep I had been told that as soon as my water broke to head straight to the hospital for antibioitics, so after sitting around the campfire for a bit, Mark and I decided that we should probably head into town and see the doctor to determine if I was going into labor or not.. so we loaded up the pick up truck and headed into town at about 1:30am. We got to the hospital at about 2:30 where the doctor determined yes, I was in labor. She also discovered some mec in the amniotic fluid, meaning we would have to monitor Logan the whole time - so I was unable to leave the hospital bed at all (except for quick bathroom trips.)

At around 10am they checked me and I was already dialted 5cm. At that point I decided to go ahead and have some morphine. The morphine kicked in right away and I felt really good, so at that time they decided to break the rest of my water and up the pitocin. From there things went down hill. It was contraction upon contraction with hardly any breaks between. Two hours later I was still only 5cm dialated. At that time I couldn't take it anymore and opted for the epidural. I never really wanted to have an epidural, but boy am I glad that I did!! I instantly felt so much better and was able to have a good two hour nap. When they checked me next I was already dialted 10cm. I wasn't feeling the urge to push physically (I was for sure ready mentally!!) so we decided to wait a bit longer and let Logan move further down on his own. About and hour and a half later we started pushing and 45 minutes later out popped Logan!!

When they told me it was a boy I was a little shocked (although I didn't go as far as saying "That's stupid" like Robyn did!!) - as I had been expecting a girl. But both Mark and I are super happy with a boy. We were discharged from the hospital the next afternoon (Sunday) at around 4pm. This week has already been full of ups and downs, but things so far are going pretty well. Logan is a little jaundiced, so he's hard to wake up for his feedings (which, by doctor's orders, are every three hours). Breast feeding is taking us both longer to get used to than we would have liked.. but we're getting there.

Thank you to everyone who has called, stopped by with flowers, gifts, meals and just to visit this week!! We look forward to having EVERYONE meet Logan!!