Wisconsin Nesties
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Baby Willem - brief birth story and photos
For some reason my sig. photo of Willem is not showing up. BUT here is a slide show my FIL (very proud new grandfather) put together:
http://www.photoshopshowcase.com/Go.aspx?AID=98741&AT=3&VID=300045&ABID=175541
I woke up Tuesday, Feb. 26 with mild contractions at 4:35am, 10 minutes apart. They were consistent but teetered out around later that afternoon. Had about one an hour until 10pm when they started back up again - 20 minutes apart, 15 minutes apart, 10 minutes.... at 6 minutes apart (around 3am) I called the hospital and we decided to head in right away (we live 50 minutes from the hospital). By the time we started driving in the contractions were 2-3 minutes apart.
Got to triage around 4:30 am and was only 3cm. They had me wait an hour and checked again - still 3 cm. Rather than send me home, she had me wait another hour and a half. During this hour and a half contractions became increasingly painful and intollerable (read: loosing my mind & in tears), Rather than check me again, they decided to check me into a room and get me the epidural. I was 5-6cm by this time.
Epi was a god-send -- they could've administered it in my eye and I would've welcomed it at that point. After it took affect - labor had slowed down so they added pitocin to the mix. This sped things along and by 2:30pm I was fully dialated and started pushing. Pushing was the easiest part by far. Pushed for an hour and along came little Willem.
I know there's a bunch I'm leaving out, but my brain is exhausted from lack of sleep and I'm about due to breastfeed. So hard to find 15 minutes nowadays! 
Re: Baby Willem - brief birth story and photos
LMAO-they could've administered it in my eye and I would've welcomed it at that point
That is exactly how I felt!!!