Introducing....

Mr Charles Gorden Baertlein

Born 9:31am 11/12/11

8lbs 4oz (After pooping on his Mommy)

His parents are thrilled by his long awaited entrance into this world.

We love you Charlie!!!!

Due date

Baby boy's due date has come and nearly gone. I was kind of expecting this to happen. This post is mainly to convince myself that I'm not depressed about it. I really am feeling pretty good. I haven't really had any painful contractions, I'm still able to go on walks, cook, do yoga, and occasionally sleep. Luckily I don't have too many pressing responsibilities in my life so I am able to take naps during the day if needed. Max and I have decided to make sure we do something fun daily with just the two of us to take advantage of this time.

40 weeks 11/3/11 Baby's due date

We started to see some progress with the cervix dilating and effacing a couple weeks ago so we started getting really excited thinking the baby was close. So it was somewhat disappointing to not see as much progress during the following appointments. This last appointment there was slight progress. Yesterday we scheduled an induction date for 41 weeks just in case baby boy hasn't come by then. 41 weeks just happened to be 11/11/11 so we are excited for that. If we have to have an induction we might as well get the perk of a fun birthday. Anyway, we are very excited to have our baby boy come to us soon but we are learning a lot of patience in the meantime.