We are so excited to have this boy in our family! His sisters adore him after one visit. Ella did not like it when she was not able to keep holding a kissing him she got pretty mad that she had to share him :) Emma wanted to stay with him and help she did not want to go home with out him or me ;) Jenna and Hannah just loved holding him.
We had a rough start to his little life. I spent Wednesday finish up shampooing my carpets because that was the last housecleaning item on my list an I was going to have it done, and it made waiting for my pre-eclampsia results go faster ;) We did not have it thank heavens but my Ob was a bit worried that we may have been getting early sings of it. Any way so needless to say that when you have had a week of throwing up in the mornings and lots and lots of BraxtenHixs contractions that doing the carpets only makes them worst and you extra tired and sore, so by 9pm I was ready for bed and slightly annoyed that laying down did not make my cramping go away as fast as I thought it should, so I spent the night up and down because they did not stop coming and I sure any normal person would have realized hey I might be in labor but all I was thinking is how dumb was I to push myself so hard so now I am sore and can't sleep because of it, well by 6:30 I discovered I was bleeding a bit so then I though maybe I had better time these contractions out and they were 1-2 min apart so I called my mom to come over made the kids german pancakes and told them it looked like brother would be coming today. Emma was a little mad at first because it was my last day to help in her class and Hannah really wanted him to come Friday for her birthday ;) So Bryce and I got the kids on them bus and headed in the snow by the time we got on the freeway I knew this baby was on his way out which was not going to make my Ob happy she did not want to do an emergency C-section.
At the hospital they told us that because we were only 37 weeks that they would just monitor me but that nothing would happen today...until she started to check me and check me some more, she could feel his feet coming and then my water broke I was dilated at a 6/7. Bryce had to run out and get another nurse who had to run for my Ob and raced us to the OR hoping we would get there before more of him decided to come. I was barley numb from the spinal tap when they started on the c-section and had them asking a few times if I would feel anything thing sharp lucky it had kicked in fast enough so I did not feel anything. It was great after being up all night I could have sleep like a baby then ;) Well to make life even better for my Ob I had had a slow leak over the past few days but did not realize it and my placenta had started to tear. They were worried about the cord being wrapped around his belly and Bridger's feet were still stuck in the birth cannel and his legs so fat they would not bend enough to get him out easily and his head was stuck in my ribs and one arm stuck behind his back with his other arm playing with his cord, so it was a process for him to be pulled out with out breaking him or me.
We got lots of oh's and awe's when it was all over and my OB had a big sigh of relief while she tied my tubes knowing this was the last of my monstrous size babies my she would ever deliver and I am right up there with her on that. Today every time someone comes in my room they all know everything about my crazy delivery and think he is a cutest biggest baby in the nursery;) all in all it was crazy good time and I am honestly glad he came this week not on our scheduled day of the 30th, my OB and nurses all agree if I would have made it that far it would not have been pretty getting him out at all!
