Monday August 23rd i went to the doctor for a sono to make sure everything still looked ok because i was a week over my due date. My amniotic fluid was low enough that the doctor wanted me to go straight over to the hospital and the doctor on call would assess me to see if it was safe to send me home. Eric met me at the hospital around 1:00... finally got to speak with the doctor he was not comfortable send me home because the fluid being so low and me already being a week over. Grrr..looks like my plans of going into labor naturally this time was not going to happen. Good news though i was dilated and already contracting some on my own so he didn't think it would take much to get me into labor. yay! :) The plan was to stay the night and start a low dose pitocin in the morning. Eric went home to grab our bags and make sure the animals and house where good for the night. When the next doctor on came in she asked if there was any reason why i wanted to wait till the am to start.. i said no not really i knew i wasn't going to be able to sleep anyways. So around 1:30am the nurse started the pitocin and it wasn't long before i was having some good contractions. I made it to about 5:00 and whoa worst pain I've EVER been in... the nurse checked me ughh i was 6cm. Decided my natural birth plan had already been squashed with having to be induced ...so i decided an epidural sounded pretty nice at the time. around 5:30 or so epidural was in place i could relax..ahhh. I called my mom and told her we started last night and she better get here in the next couple of hours. She took Cohen to mamoms ( thankfully she was back in town:) and got to the hospital around 730-8 am. After allot of worries with the baby's heart rate dropping with each contraction as soon as i was complete there was no time to waste. It was time to push.. after about 20 minutes at 9:36 am HE was here and was perfect!!
daddy cutting the cord....
He was soo alert just taking it all in :)
Mom went back to Mamoms to pick up her and a very excited big brother. He bought baby Cale and mommy a ballon up to our room :)
First time holding his baby brother... so sweet!
Daddy with his boys (Cohen was a little over taking pictures at this point!)
first picture as a family of four!!
finally on our way home...
we surprised Cohen and picked him up from school on our way home from the hospital... he was very excited to get to ride home with his baby brother!
HOME:)
so blessed
we surprised Cohen and picked him up from school on our way home from the hospital... he was very excited to get to ride home with his baby brother!
HOME:)so blessed
The girls couldnt wait to meet and hold their new cousin.
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