Dramatic Entrance

I know it was a while ago, but here's my baby story:

I worked through Feb. and the baby was due in March (17th). Seemed like I'd have a nice break before he was born, but the doctor kept saying he would be born early. She was right! At 9AM on March 5th, my water broke (thank goodness I had quit working - can you imagine how embarassing that would have been??) but labor didn't start. I called Lucas at work and he said "Well, um thanks for calling me. This is exciting." He rushed home and after packing up some things, we went over to the hospital.

They said that my water had indeed broken and I was having contractions, but I couldn't feel them. I wanted to wait a while and see if things would move along naturally without the drugs they can do to speed that along. Well, my doctor said OK so we waited until 3pm to do the drugs. They gave me an IV with Pitosen but I still couldn't feel anything even though the monitor showed contractions. Finally, at 6pm, the doctor decided to up the dose and I started feeling things. It did not feel good. It kept getting worse, and then around 7pm things got very busy and David was born at 7:21pm.

He looked purplish to me, but the doctors and nurses said he was pretty pink for a newborn and he looked fine. Seemed like a long time before they would let me hold him, but Lucas got to be over there with him while they checked him over. Then I got a better look at him all wrapped up and cleaned off. He seemed so tiny! I was scared of doing something wrong. I remember the first night in the hospital, David woke up and made a little peep. I couldn't sleep so I had to check and make sure he was still breathing!

He's been breathing great and growing lots ever since. I'll promise I'll start putting recient stuff up soon, but I want to begin at the beginning :)