He's here! Topher Webb Rubalcava was born on Feb. 5th, weighed 8 lbs 14 oz, and was 21.1 inches long. He's a big kid and sooo handsome! I have 3 main men in my life now!! It was a struggle to get him here, but it was worth it. My water broke at 1am that morning so we went into the hospital. After being hooked up to my epidural for a while, I just wasn't progressing the way I should and with each contraction the baby's heartrate would decelerate. I also was lucky or should I say unlucky enough to have bronchitis with a huge fever at the same time. They started to worry about the baby's heartrate, him getting a fever and the fact that he wasn't descending into the birth canal like he should (probably because he was pretty big), so they decided to do an emergency c-section. The c-section went well and we had our baby. For the next few days in the hospital I fought a high fever and a sore stomach due to uncontrollable coughing. Now I'm home and still fighting to feel better, but glad to have our little boy home!
On Easter morning T.J. was getting dinner ready for after church. He put a stick of butter in a Pyrex baking dish in the oven to melt. As he was getting it out of the oven to add the rest of the ingredients, the dish exploded into a million pieces before he could even set it on the stove top. As soon as it exploded, I heard him yell, "I have glass in my eyes!" We didn't waste any time getting him and the kids into the car. I drove 80 mi an hour to get to the the ER. After seeing the doctor and having a CT, we found out that he had multiple abrasions in both eyes and little pieces of glass that would have to work themselves out after his eyes were irrigated. That was a very scary day for us, but we are so grateful that he was ok. We just wanted to get the word out that Pyrex can be pretty dangerous....we won't be using it anymore!
