Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Visitation day
We had a nice day full of visitors today. I was wonderful to have so many people stop buy, but we are ready to settle down and try to get a little rest this evening. The type of rest they give you in the hospital to check vitals, feed the baby, and general hospital busyness. We think we are going home tommorrow and we are so excited to be able to introduce Nathaniel to fury little Tumnus waiting at home for us. We get our last little class were we get to watch bathing, diapar changing and last minute baby stuff. Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.
Day 2 into 3
We have made it past 24 hours andhaven't collapsed.
We are definitely tired, but were able to get a little sleep last night. They are coming in every three hours to feed but the mini naps are helping. Nathaniel Patrick is becoming himself more and more every day. Here are a fewmore pics. We will be here at the hospital
until Sunday afternoon. Thenwe are apparently trusted to take him
h
ome and take care of things ourselves.
Friday, June 17, 2011
975 turned into Nathaniel Patrick
Good morning everyone,
Jackie and I were amazed as we welcomed Nathaniel Patrick into our lives last night. I got a call at 1:32pm and Jackie told me that she had been having semi-consistent contractions since 11:30. She had already called the doctor and they wanted us to come in. When we got to the doctor we sat and waited to be seen for about 30 minutes. As before, they began to subside and we thought it was another false alarm. Even after seeing the doctor they thought the contractions were done for today. There was a brief discussion about whether or not to monitor us just to see...thankfully we went on monitor. Once we were on monitor we had contractions every 7-9 minutes. They decided to send us over to labor and delivery to have some additional monitoring (I think the fact they were closing in 20 minutes helped this decision (: ). We got to labor and delivery around 5:15. They hooked us up to the monitor and the contractions took off. The anesthesiologist came in and the race began. Doctors came in out out to talk, give shots, and prep. They took Jackie back, me 10 minutes later and then at 6:51 we had our little baby boy.
He weighed 6 lbs 10 oz and was 19 in long. He stayed in the nursery until about 1:30 am were we kept him for 2 hours before we needed some much needed rest. We slept on and off until they brought him back down at 5:30. We are little rested, clean, fed, and happy to be holding Nathaniel. We will try to get more pics and keep you up-to-date.
Jackie and I were amazed as we welcomed Nathaniel Patrick into our lives last night. I got a call at 1:32pm and Jackie told me that she had been having semi-consistent contractions since 11:30. She had already called the doctor and they wanted us to come in. When we got to the doctor we sat and waited to be seen for about 30 minutes. As before, they began to subside and we thought it was another false alarm. Even after seeing the doctor they thought the contractions were done for today. There was a brief discussion about whether or not to monitor us just to see...thankfully we went on monitor. Once we were on monitor we had contractions every 7-9 minutes. They decided to send us over to labor and delivery to have some additional monitoring (I think the fact they were closing in 20 minutes helped this decision (: ). We got to labor and delivery around 5:15. They hooked us up to the monitor and the contractions took off. The anesthesiologist came in and the race began. Doctors came in out out to talk, give shots, and prep. They took Jackie back, me 10 minutes later and then at 6:51 we had our little baby boy.
He weighed 6 lbs 10 oz and was 19 in long. He stayed in the nursery until about 1:30 am were we kept him for 2 hours before we needed some much needed rest. We slept on and off until they brought him back down at 5:30. We are little rested, clean, fed, and happy to be holding Nathaniel. We will try to get more pics and keep you up-to-date.
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