It's a BOY! Announcing the birth of our newest addition!! :)

   

Last Thursday, on my Due Date September 2010 ( I have always gone really close to my due date, the day after, 4 days before and the day before but never on my actual due date!), I started having irregular contractions about 2:00 pm, and I was thinking this is probably it, because they were painful, but you'd think I'd know exactly when to go into the hospital, because this is baby number 4, but let me tell you, it doesn't get any easier, not being sure about that.  But because I have always gone very fast with my labors, I really don't have much time to second guess myself--I just need to get in there.

     Well, I had been talking to Mark about whether we should go into the hospital, and we finally decided that it was time to go by 3:30 pm.  It's ridiculous really, because the worst that could happen with going to get checked and not being far along, is that you'd get sent home, but in my case, if I wait too long, then I'd have the baby at home.  Well, Mark's mom came over to watch the kids, and Mark and I left in a hurry to get to the hospital at 3:45 pm.  By that point I knew it had to be it, because my contractions were close together, and I was feeling more pressure.

     We got to the hospital at about 3:58 pm, and the front desk people were telling me that I needed to register, I was like, "No, I am having this baby RIGHT now, the last baby I had was born 20 minutes after I got to the hospital, I need to go upstairs NOW."  Well, they listened to me (don't mess with a woman in labor right?).  Mark was still parking, and bringing my bags in, and a nice guy offered to wheel me upstairs in a wheel chair (yah, couldn't really walk very well by this point).  I got upstairs, and into the hospital gown and sat in the bed, and my water broke.  My doctor happened to be at the hospital at a meeting, her and Mark walked in at the same time, and they checked me and I was dilated to a 10!  They said the baby was coming out already, so I pushed ONCE and he was out!  Born at 4:04 pm.  I couldn't believe how fast it was, even though I always have had really fast labors, (First two were 5 hours, Second two were 2 hours) I was in SHOCK at how incredibly fast this labor went.

      But the baby, and I were both healthy and it went very well.  I was just glad that we made it to the hospital before he was born!!  It was a pretty close call!!  We had a very hard time this whole pregnancy deciding on what his name was going to be.  But when we both saw him, Mark and I both thought, before we even talked to each other, that his name is Baby C.  We'd been praying that we'd be able to think of a good name that fit him, and our prayers were answered because we were both inspired to name him that.  :)  His name is C, middle name after Mark's father.  Baby C has strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes.  He also has dimples on both cheeks!! :)  I just love dimples.  He weighs 8 lbs and 3 oz, and measures 21.5 inches long (Pretty close in size to the other kids, but the biggest so far (by 6 oz)--Little Man E was 7lb 13 oz, 21 inches, Little Miss R was 7lbs 9 oz, 22 inches and Little Miss K was 7lbs 6oz and 20 inches).  Mark brought me a dozen long stemmed red roses at the hospital. 

     We were in the hospital for a couple of days, he was on an IV with antibiotics while we were there.  Because he came out so fast, he had a little air outside his lungs in his chest, that was making it harder on him to breathe.  He was making a grunting noise--but the antibiotics cleared that up.  We are all doing great, and really enjoying having our new Baby brother C, at our home.  My mom is down visiting and it is very fun having her here!  We are going to bless him at church, the first Sunday in November.

 Happy Big Sister R with Baby brother C.

Happy Big Sister K, with Baby Brother C.

Excited Big Brother E with new Baby Brother C

I had too much fun taking all of these pictures. :)