Introducing Liam Craig Walther

So we have welcomed our baby Liam into the cold world of Provo, Utah.  He was born February 18th at 11:36 P.M. and was 19 inches long.  He is now almost two weeks old.  So here is the story of his birth.  We were planning on going in on the 21st for a scheduled C-section as he was still breech and was refusing to turn.  I had been having contractions but nothing really bad and I had been experiencing these for several weeks so I didn't really think about it.  Throughout the past couple of days though I had been having quite a bit of fluid leaking but I wasn't sure if it was normal or if my water had broken, but at my Doctors appointment they didn't say anything about it so I just ignored it.  So Saturday my parents came up to be here when the baby was born and we were just at our apartment hanging out, waiting on the off-chance that I might go into labor.  So I kept having contractions that ranged from 4 to 20 minutes apart, but the pain wasn't bad at all, but my mom convinced us to go to the hospital just to be checked out and I was a little concerned because I hadn't felt him move.  So we went to the hospital, but I was convinced they were just going to send me home.  We got into labor and delivery and they monitored the baby and he seemed totally fine and they did some tests on the fluid and were about to send me home when they decided to do one additional test.  A few minutes later the doctor came in and said that I was leaking some amniotic fluid so they were going to deliver me right now since my fluid was low.  Next minute the anesthesiologist was in the room giving me an epidural and less than an hour later we were headed to the operating room.  The epidural did make me nauseous so I threw up once because I was so nervous about the whole thing,which isn't very pleasant when you're strapped down to a table.  So they started the C-section and a few minutes later they lowered the curtain so I could see them pull out my baby boy.  I only saw him for a second then Jeff left with him while they started to stitch me up.  At this point they discovered that my uterus is heart shaped so Liam's head was stuck up in one side of the heart which is why he could never turn.  The doctors thought it was very cool and were telling everyone to come check out my uterus. So just another addition to our story that makes our little boy such a miracle as the heart-shaped uterus is supposed to lead to infertility, frequent miscarriage, and preterm birth.  So they said if I can get pregnant again it is more likely i will have to do C-section again.  Just shows that little Liam was meant to come into the world at this time as he overcame a lot odds that weren't in his favor.
So recovery has not been bad at all.  They kept asking me how my pain was at the hospital and it never was bad so I never really took any pain meds other than ibuprofen and I only took that once or twice, and I never filled my prescription for percocet.  Anyway I got out of the hospital Tuesday and I went to one of my classes Wednesday and I took Liam to all my classes the \following monday.  He has been doing pretty good and i have still been able to stay on top of my school work, and people are really nice and willing to help me with notes and stuff.  So thats the story of our lives currently.  It will be nice when Liam starts sleeping for longer periods at night, but he is pretty good just to wake up eat and then go back to sleep.  We are so excited to have him.  He is such a miracle in every way and Jeff and I love him so much