Jesse: Pregnancy & birth

My pregnancy was pretty easy, no morning sickness. It got rough, though when I realized how much weight that I was gaining...40lbs the first 5 months. That's when I found out that I had gestational diabetes. I had to start seeing the specialist 3 times a week for NST's(non-stress tests) Well, the little booger was rolling over on his cord about once a week the last couple of months, so I was constantly being sent to the hospital for observation. Nothing ever came of it, though, thank goodness. They put me on a pretty strict diet, so I only gained 7-8 lbs the last few months, which was great. All that I wanted was a darn glazed donut, though. Oh well, I survived.
I went to the hospital a few times near the end. I wasn't drinking enough water(imagine that) and kept gettin dehydrated and needing fluids.
They scheduled me to deliver 8 days early. Then, early in the morning(1AM) the day before I was supposed to deliver, I started having contractions. They continued for hours, and about 4AM I went to go pee and thought that my water had broken. I woke Billy up and told him that it was time to get to the hospital. When I got there and they checked me, they said that it wasn't my water, but must've been my mucous plug. Lovely. Well, thank goodness, they decided to keep me and induce me anyway. They induced me and I started progressing. Early afternoon, I was ready for an epidural. They asked if I wanted something that would help with the pain while I was waiting on the epidural. They ended up giving me Stadol(sp?) It instantly made me stupid. I tried to say something to Marjorie just as they were putting the medication into my IV, and it came out, like just strange sounds instead of words. This was terribly upsetting to me. Pretty soon after they gave me that medication, Jesse's heartrate decreased, and they wanted to put the little monitor into the top of his head. My brain was so foggy at that point(from the Stadol) that there was no way that I could agree to it. I let Billy decide, and they went ahead and did it. Things went smoothly, in spite of me being REALLY FOGGY for the entire birth, I think that I pushed for around 20 minutes...really foggy, so I'm not positive about that. He came into the world at 7lbs 7oz and 19½ inches long. The specialist had really scared me to bad the last few months about his weight(they kept telling me he would be around 9½lbs(due to the diabetes) so I was pretty shocked that he was so small, but thankful!!!