Our little guy

Our birth story: After my water breaking during Sunday night child birth class and being admitted to the hospital 3.5 weeks early, we went into labor Monday morning and practiced the breathing we had just learned about to get through contractions. When I was ready for the epidural I figured I was at 2 cm but I was actually at 5 cm! Seems that labor was progressing fairly quickly! Pretty soon I was ready to start pushing and ended up pushing for 3 hours only to find that he hadn't moved any further down. We decided at that point to do a c-section and then realized why he wasn't moving - he was facing up instead of down and was stuck! The poor little guy had a giant bruise on his head from all of the pushing, but he was born with no other complications. We did have to battle with jaundice for a while, but he's coming through that well too. He was born Oct 20 at 6pm, 6 lbs 14 oz, 19 in long.

36 Weeks (8 months)

Ok, funny story here. This 8 month picture was taken on Oct 19, a week later than I had hoped to take one, but oh well. Later in the evening was our 3rd (out of 4) child birth class. During class when we got seated after a break, my water broke!!! Of course at first I wondered if I was pee-ing my pants but when it kept going I knew my bladder was not that big and that my water had definitely broke. Luckily the classes were at the hospital so we checked in and got settled - 3 1/2 weeks before my due date! I even had an OB appt scheduled for the next morning where I assumed we'd see if I was dialated or anything, that was going to be the first of my weekly OB appts. What crazy timing!! When we showed up, my doc was actually on call that night so when she came in to visit I apologized for being so early for our appt. :-)

I'll post some super cute pictures of our little guy.