Getting back to it!

Where have I been?  Oh, I've been here, just unmotivated to write.  By the time I get a moment to myself, the last thing I want to do is write.  I'd much rather veg out in front of the TV.  However, it's been 7 months since Gus was born, and this blog was supposed to be a way of keeping track of milestones and keeping friends and family in the loop.  Fail.

I've also been putting off blogging because I felt that the next post should be my birth story.  I always planned on sharing it - until it happened.  I had a very difficult labor and delivery.  Gus ended up in the NICU for 48ish hours.  It feels like cheating to not tell the story, but I'm still having a difficult time processing everything that happened.  Yes, 7 months later.  So, I'll give you the abbreviated version without all the gory details so that I feel like I can move on and continue telling the story of his childhood.

Gus was born on May 24, 2013 at 9:14 pm after 21 hours of labor.  I had a med-free birth.  It hurt.  Gus inhaled meconium and was whisked away from me with nothing more than a kiss.  He was in the NICU for just over 2 days.  We went home on the 27th.  The end.

I hope that eventually I can share some of the details of his birth and my feelings about them.  Time heals all wounds, and talking about it helps, right?  We'll see.

But for now, I have a wonderful, funny, silly, perfect 7 month old little boy who I love very much.  My goal is to update this at least twice a month - playing catch-up and keeping things up to date.  Let's see how it goes!

39 weeks - 1 day old - 7 months old