Hudson Brendon Alexander!!

Wow I can't believe that my baby boy is 3 weeks old today!! Here I am sitting at the computer holding my sleeping baby and I keep thinking I can't believe time has flown so quickly!! I need it to just freeze!! I decided since Hudson is 3 weeks its probably about time that I update the blog on his birth story!!
So it all began on 10/3/10 which is Bren's b-day!! Haha the whole pregnancy we kept saying we didn't want him to be born on Brendon's birthday because we want them to have their own birthdays but at this point both Brendon and i were exhausted with this pregnancy! So it was conference Sunday and we went to my parents to watch conference and eat lots of food and I just hadn't felt good all day! I started out with a major headache that wouldn't go away and I just felt nauseous. I had my mom take my blood pressure cause it had been pretty high at the doctors a few days before and they said if I ever got a headache that wouldn't go away along with my high blood pressure I needed to call. My BP was still really high but i kinda just brushed it off for a bit and we finished conference and celebrated Brendon's big day! When we left to go home I was feeling super nauseous and just not myself but Brendon had been on a kick this week to make us go walking every night to hopefully put me into labor and he suggested we still take our walk and see if contractions would start and if they did we could call and see what the doc would have to say with the BP high and all. So we went walking.. And sure enough contractions began. To me they were uncomfortable but nothing like people described them so I just figured they were the Braxton Hicks contractions i had been having. Anyway they continued and I contiued to feel sick so I asked Bren if we could go back and just sit for a bit. We did and I called the doctor and told them my symptons and they asked us to come in because of the high BP and the combined headache. So at 10:30 pm we went in to the U of U hospital and they hooked me up to the monitors and sure enough they were real contractions and coming every 3-5 minutes! I was just super tough is all!! :) haha. So they kept an eye on me for a bit, did blood work and kept checking my BP which wouldn't go down and decided they were going to go ahead and admit me because I was 38.5 weeks pregnant and showing signs of preeclampsia. At this point I got so nervous! We were gonna have our baby!! The day we had been waiting for had finally come and I was kinda starting to freak out! I didn't know how to be a mom!! I didn't want to push a baby out of me!! Ahhh! What was I gonna do!? So they took me into the delivery room at 1:30 am and started me on pitocin to get my contractions going! Brendon gave me a sweet priesthood blessing to calm me down and then I asked for the epidural ASAP! haha I figured I hadn't felt horrible pain yet why feel it now! Well the epidural was amazing! It didn't hurt at all and it started taking effect quickly!! They told me to get some rest so me Bren and my mom (who had been working next door at primary Children's) took a little nap until the Doctor came in at 6:30 to break my water. Everything went quickly from there! Dr. Sharp my doctor got there about an hour later and checked me and I was already at a 9 and then an hour after that it was time to start pushing! At that point we asked my mom to leave so it would be just me and bren and the rest of the process was just amazing!! My doctor and everyone else in the room were so great and fun and Brendon was so sweet and helpful! I didn't feel a thing! Sure enough at 9:47 am on 10/4/10 our little Hudson Brendon Alexander made his entrance into the world weighing a whopping 8.2 lbs and was 20.5 inches! The look on Brendon's face when he saw him come out was amazing and I can seriously say I fell more in love with him at that moment then ever! They took Hudson over and weighed him and tested him and then Brendon brought him to me and placed him in my arms and at that moment life couldn't get any better, He was so beautiful with so much hair and cute chubby little cheeks and he just started talking away telling me all about his journey! And he hasn't stopped talking ever since! He is so noisy it is hilarious!!
The rest of the time at the hospital went great! We had a great staff who took good care of both me and Hudson. He had to be under the bililights the last day because of jaundice and has recovered great! We went to his 2 week check up last week and he is already 8.11 lbs and 22 inches! Such a big boy!!! And these last three weeks have been heaven. I am so in love with him its insane. I never knew I could love 2 people so much. Brendon is such an amazing dad and I absolutely love being a mom! Hudson is such a sweetie and has such a personality already! And I will brag... He is gorgeous!!! I know i am his mom and I have to say it but I really think he is the cutest baby ever he is such a looker!! Haha anyway enough enough!
Thank you to everyone who has made this new transition into parenting so much easier! My family has been great especially my mom coming at any moment i have needed her! And we were lucky to have Brendon's mom come and stay with us last week so she could meet Hudson and she was so amazing and helpful to us as well!!! We are getting ready to move this week and she helped us pack and also just played with Hudson so we could get things done! We love you guys!!!
Thank you Brendon for all you have done! for putting up with me being so crazy during that pregnancy and also a little crazy and obsessive with our little baby now too! You are amazing and such a great daddy it makes me cry just thinking about it!!! I love my boys!!!
Sorry for the picture overload but I have to show off my sweetie!!!