Ethan Cole was born 11/23 at 32 weeks

At 9:00PM on 11/22 I started bleeding.  I had a lot of pressure and cramping.  I called the Dr and they said just rest.  I was 32 weeks and 2 days.  I laid down and at 12:10 I realized I was having contractions.  I got dressed and my DH drove me to the hospital.  We thought I would just be sent home and it was false labor.  Come to find out I was dialated 7 CM.  It took 31 minutes to progress from 7 cm to fully dialated, water broke and baby born.  No time for an epidural or anything.  We are still in a little bit of shock.  My entire labor and delivery for my first baby was 4.5 hours.  Ethan Cole was born weighing 4lbs 5.8oz.  and 17.5 in long!!  Amazingly enough, at only 32.5 weeks, he needed no oxygen.  He is in an incubator and having trouble maintaining temp and the results from this morning showed Jaundice but he has increased to 10cc's of formula and keeping it down.  He is an amazingly strong lil boy and I couldn't be prouder of his progress.  His name means strong and I had no idea how soon he would live up to it. 

It is still hard.  He is in special care and I am only able to hold him during feedings every 3 hours and now that he is going under the lamps, I only get him for 30 min every 3 hours but considering everything, we are soo fortunate and blessed.  They think he might can come home in 2-3 weeks.  Pray for me though, I dont know how in the world I am gonna go home without him.  But we still have soo much to do for him.  Thought we had another 8 weeks,  I still haven't even had my shower.  It was planned for Dec. 5th. 

Anyways, I didn't tear or anything.  I have been up and moving around since I gave birth.  No complications or problems.