And Baby Makes Four
Brinestone woke me up this morning at 6:00 to tell me that she was pretty sure she was in labor. She’d been having contractions all night, and they started getting much stronger around 4:15. We called my brother to come over and watch Lego, and then we grabbed our bags and headed to the hospital.
She’d had a doctor’s appointment yesterday, and she was dilated past 3 cm then. This morning she was past 4, so they said we were there to stay this time. Things moved along quite quickly this time all by themselves, whereas last time her water had broken but she wasn’t really progressing until they put her on pitocin.
They broke her water, and then things moved really quickly. About 20 minutes of pushing later, we had ourselves a little boy. The doctor remarked on how huge he looked—sure enough, he weighed in at a whopping 9 pounds 3 ounces. Don’t ask me how the two of us produced such a big baby.
The name we settled on is Daniel Porter, and he seems to be doing great. He’s pretty calm and alert—he’s hardly cried, and he likes to just look around at everything. Brinestone’s doing pretty well, but obviously she’s pretty exhausted and sore (she went without an epidural this time).
I’ll try to post pictures tomorrow.
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Imogen
And again, congratulations to all.
Ashley
Congratulations! And kudos for going naturally! Can’t wait to see pictures. Hey, let us know if you guys need help moving!
Dan
Congratulations!!! I’m honored. I guess I owe you a Jonathon now.
Jon Boy
Thanks, guys!
Dan: Darn straight. You’re forever in my debt. Or maybe you can help us move and we’ll call it even.