He Has Arrived

Connor arrived on 4/8/11 at 7:55am at Providence Hospital in Everett, WA. He weighed 7lbs, 11 oz. I had a OB appointment on the 7th and they determined that my blood pressure was too high and that combined with how swollen I was they sent me to triage to be induce. By the time they ordered the pitocin to induce me my water broke. Apparently I caused some stress to the baby by weeding my flower beds (I was trying to induce labor...) and he pooped in the sack. So when my water broke it was green, good thing I was at the hospital already. If that would have happened at home I would have freaked out! I labored throughout the night not sleeping at all. Neither did my mom, Russ or my friend Cody. They were all there to help me. I reached 10cm dilated and started pushing at 6:55am and he was born an hour later. Because he pooped in the sack there was a respiratory team in my room too, it seemed like there were 20 people in my room, but it was probably more like ten. They took Connor right over to the baby station to check him out. He was wheezing a little bit, so they decided to take him to the NICU. I was able to hold him for a few minutes before they took him. I was being stitched up by the doctor. Connor was posterior with

the cord wrapped around his neck. But he is fine, just tore me up a bit. By they time I was all cleaned up and back in bed Russ and Connor came back from the NICU. He was only there for about 45 minutes, but it totally freaked me out. We stayed in the hospital until the next afternoon and then were released. Thank goodness, we were really ready to leave and that he was finally here. Here are some pictures: