Marek James Bellus was born at 2:50am on Friday, January 26, 2007. Mom was ten days past due and was scheduled for induction on Thursday morning. We arrived at the hospital at 7:30am and setteled in for what the nurses said could be a long day! At 11am I was dialated to 4cm and Dr. Kozak broke my water. Labor was very intense from then on out and at 2pm we opted to have an epidural. The epidural helped tremendously and at 11pm I was ready to start pushing. We pushed for three hours but after very little progress we determined that Marek's head was stuck and we needed to do a C-section. Marek's arrival was long anticipated and a wonderful day in our family's life. He weighed 8 lbs. and was 20.5 inches long. He has lots of sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. 
