Beginnings

One of the places the Queen likes to visit is Skittles' Place. Skittles came up with this great idea for a Tuesday Meme. It is called Heads or Tails Tuesday. Basically you are given a word and you can pretty much do whatever you want with it: write a poem, post a photo, tell a story, whatever. This week the word is "Beginnings". Since the theme of this blog is Caleb, the Queen also has the daunting task of relating the word somehow to him. Anyone who would like to join in please do. It is always fun with more participants. So here we go:

BEGINNINGS

This was Prince Caleb's beginning. Getting him to greet the world was a bit of a challenge. For those of you who don't know here is how his beginning began: Due to medical reasons the doctors thought it best to induce labor on his due date. Unfortunately the people at the hospital forgot to reserve the bed (red flag!) so 2 days sooner the induction began.

Of course with gestational diabetes your blood sugar still has to be monitored even though you are not allowed to eat (go figure). So every few hours a nurse would come in to draw blood. Beside that going on the Queen was also on intravenous antibiotics that was shoved into her left hand, a blood pressure monitor on her right arm,which went off ever hour, plus a heart rate monitor on her finger. Com-for-ta-ble! So picture all that for about 10 hours, add to that a failing epidural and a Queen who is slowly breaking down. Now with all that going on let's add the fact that now 12 hours in, they decide to do a c-section. Now this might sound like a horrible day...but take a look at the picture above and it becomes one fabulous beginning of a wonderful little boy's life...beside, it wasn't THAT bad :)