A Quick Recap

I can't believe it is already getting to be the end of March. Time certainly has flown for us, especially with Caleb around. I'll give you a little recap of the last two months...

My (Regan) mom arrived in Austria on February second to spend the month with us. We hoped Caleb would be born right around his due date which was February 3rd, so my mom would get as much time as possible with him. Turns out he really did not feel like coming out anywhere near his due date. So my mom got to hang out with a hugely pregnant and grumpy daughter for the first two weeks of her stay. We did manage to make it into Vienna one of the days and had a great time enjoying the sights and a little treat of cake and hot chocolate at Demel's, a very old bakery and cafe with the prestige of being the Imperial and Royal Court Confectionary Bakery.

The last week or so before Caleb was born included several trips back and forth to the hospital because they had me on what is called a control. Basically my blood pressure was high so they kept having me come in to have the baby's heartbeat monitored and to check my blood to make sure I hadn't developed pre-eclampsia. They had decided to induce if Caleb didn't come on his own by Monday, February 16th but wanted me to continue to monitor my blood pressure over the weekend and come in if it got too high. On Saturday morning after getting my blood pressure taken twice and twice having it be too high, my mom, Dan and I headed for the hospital to see what they would say. After yet more blood being drawn and monitoring the baby they said things seemed ok but they wanted to just go ahead and keep me in the hospital and start the induction early. So that night they started the process and by about 10am Sunday morning my contractions were naturally coming steadily. Labor went smoothly and completely natural, and by 10:08pm on Sunday February 15th we welcomed Caleb Wyatt Peterson into the world. He was perfectly healthy weighing in at 8lb 13oz. We were actually shocked that he was under 9lbs since they had been telling us all along he was going to be a very large baby. I guess by Austrian standards he was big since he was over a pound larger than every other baby that was born during our hospital stay.

We came home a couple days later and Caleb and I have been hanging out here most of the time since. Dan was given the first week off to be with us and has since been very busy at the Oasis. He is currently making a video for the upcoming Easter program. My mom had to go back home on March 2nd, which was a sad day for me. We appreciated her help and insight tremendously. Caleb is a very sweet and easygoing baby. He seems to have settled into a nice routine and is already sleeping 7-8 hours straight at night. We are so in love with him!!! His personality comes out more ever day. We are getting lots of smiles from him on a daily basis and looking forward to hearing his laugh.

If you want to see more pictures of Caleb check out... http://picasaweb.google.com/DanielandRegan . That pretty much sums things up for us. We will try to blog more often in the coming months.