Luke Allen Vester is here and what a Journey it WAS!

I haven't written in such a long time so i have much to update everyone on.
Well i am now a mother of a Handsome baby boy he was born on April 7th at 3:21. He was 4 Lbs and 14oz and was 17 3/4 inches long.His birth was not at all what i had expected. Luke was 6 weeks early almost 8 weeks but thanks to the doctors at IMC and strict bed rest they ordered me to be on... helped me carry Luke to a healthy 34 weeker.
On Wednesday May 25th right before mike got home i had some " Gushing". Usually you hear women who are pregnant often "pee" when they sneeze or laugh, but i wasn't doing either. It happened 3 times so i called the on call doctor for my doctors office. The Doctor who was on call was a complete jerk... i told him what happened and he said well it could be your water or you could have just peed your pants! so when mike got home i was pretty freaked out, but was sure that it was most definintly NOT my water!
I just really didn't want to pay our co-pay for the ER just to hear them say..."YOU PEED YOUR PANTS" but we went anyway to the ER here in town.
I was sent to the labor and delivery.... to make a long story short i was ruptured and the hospital in town didn't have a NICU.So i was supposed to be air flighted to the hospital in murray, but it was snowing so bad that i went via ambulance. That was quite the experience. I didnt have any bags packed or any arrangements for the dogs quite yet. so i was pretty upset.... just cause i wasn't organized or ready.
So when i arrived at IMC it was 1 in the morning, they did tons of tests on me and gave me steroids for lukes lungs.... just in case he was to be delivered quickly. The plan was to keep luke in for two weeks, so that he could develop more.
So i had to stay in the hospital for two weeks, the good news was i did not develop an infection so i was able to go the two weeks. My days included getting an ultrasound every day, chatting with the nurses, eating hospital food, two wheel chair rides a day... and so much more...lol.
I was given potocin to induce my labor at 5:00 the morning on the 7th.... everything was going well until about 2, when my epidural seemed to stop working. Mike called in the nurse and she got me to sit up so that gravity would help it work...as soon as i sat up i couldn't breath (SCARY)...i was put on oxygen. All of a sudden lukes heart rate dropped down to 60. After that it was like a scene from a movie, i was given a briefing on the complications with an emergency c-section then rolled out of the room quickly. Mike was thrown the garments he had to wear in the operating room as we rushed down the hall way. When we were in the room i was given more drugs so that i could not feel anything..plus a few other drugs.... which caused me to convulse and tense up horribly! I barely remember much after luke was taken. They immediately took him to check him out.
I was wheeled back to the recovery room, i really couldn' t talk because of all the drugs. Mike got to see luke about 3 hoursafter he was born. He was perfect. on the APGAR he got a 7 then one minute later he got a 9. He didn't even need to be put on oxygen! Which was a huge surprise. He had an IV put in his umbilical cord and had a feeding tube in his nose. i didnt get to see him until the next morning. But when i did it was the most amazing thing! I was a mommy!
I got to go home 4 days after i had luke but luke just came home on monday the 4th. He spent almost a month in the NICU.
It was really hard to go home without him. I went into the hospital everyday to visit, which was emotionally draining! but he is now 4 weeks and 2 days old.... he is healthy and happy! Mike took monday-Wednesday off and My mom came last night and will be here till monday. Mike and i are just so blessed... we have seen Heavenly Fathers hand in our lives through all of this, financially, emotionally, and physically... it was and is truly amazing to look back and see all of our blessings! I am so grateful to all the people who came and visited and all the prayers that went our way! There is the update for now....