Tyler Jamison Rill is here!

Tyler was born on Tuesday March 22 2011 at 9:23 pm at Fairfax Hospital in Falls church Virginia! 

Wow, what a day.  The day that started the rest of our lives.  It happened in an instant, our lives changed and we fell in love with this little being.  He came out screaming screaming screaming and what a relief that was.  With apgar scores of 9 and 9 we knew he was a healthy boy.  After all he was 9 lbs!!!  OMG 9 lbs!!  The doctor and the nurses were shocked!  How this little guy flew under the radar with his poundage I don't know.  It seemed pretty obvious to me...I was huge but this being my first pregnancy who was I to say.  So I guess I'll start at the beginning, well not the real beginning but the beginning of Tyler decent.  It started on monday March 21.  I didn't really feel well, that of coarse being relative because I was sick the whole 9 months, so really I mean I felt awful.  Took my blood pressure with the blood pressure machine that mama Jane and papa Joe had lent me and it was high.  So what's the first thing I did...took a shower...of coarse!  I knew this was it.  So after the shower I called my doctors and they said go straight to the hospital.  So although I knew this was it, I was still surprised, hard to explain.  I was excited!  Called Mike of coarse and home he came.  We packed up the car and off we went nervous and excited as hell.  We got to the hospital about 3pm and checked into triage.  My blood pressure was still high and my urine was postive for protiens.  Yipee! pre-ecplamsia is Tylers ticket out!  I knew it was time...i felt my body just could not take it anymore.  So they admitted me to labor and delivery to be induced in the morning.  Meanwhile still having heart palpitations too.  Never really got our heads around that but most likely related to the retained fluid putting stress on my heart.  Next got some cervidil to soften up that cervix and that's all it took to start the process.  Started having contractions about 2am and with great intensity starting around 6 am.  At that point I was 5cm dialted and ready for the epidural.  I held off as long as I could and I couldnt wait any longer.  In walked dr. yarnel.  boy was I happy!  An anestheiologist and friend of mine from work. He happened to be on and I couldn't have been happier.  Wow, that epidural was amazing.
I thought wow now I can handle this.  This is going to be easy.  My pain is totally gone!  I took a nap!  Apparently snoring so loud everyone could here down the hall.  Well, that lasted a good 8 hours then the real pain started.  He had dropped far enough down to be out of the numb zone.  Afterall, I was having a baby but I sure was expecting that epidural to help some towards the end.  Well, 7pm hit and 9cm dialted...finally...time to push.  Thank goodness, lets get him out!  We had a wonderful nurse who without I could not have done it.  Seriously!  This nurse was my biggest cheerleader next to Mike. She was a little drill sargent mixed with a  

Round Number 2

So Tyler is 2.5 years old and I'm 8 weeks preggers.  For those of you still following this blog..Surprise!  The all too familiar nausea and fatigue of round number 1 started around 6 weeks.  I took my first dose of Phenergan last night with great success.  I got a whole night sleep for first time in 2 weeks.  Nausea was gone and I was dead asleep 15 minutes after taking it and woke up feeling great.  Awwwww I feel human again.  I've managed to get to work all but one day the past two weeks which has been a monumental challenge.  Tylers getting over bronchitis too so that's been difficult as well.  He's been up many times during the night coughing.  He slept the whole night last night....no coughing and no nightmares....pheww.  I haven't officially announced this pregnancy but have told a number of people.  If all works out this baby will be born first week in June.  The kiddos will be 3 years and 3 months apart.  Tyler has been living a diaper free lifestyle for about a month now.  He's done very well with potty training but has many accidents along the way.  We've had poo in place you would never imagine including a terd hanging from the bathroom wall.  So now instead of knowing where the poo is, the diaper, it could be anywhere.  Not such a great feeling but guess its part of the deal.  Well, he should be 100% potty trained by the time this next baby comes along which is key.