Baby Jack is here!

Oh wow are you ready for my labor/delivery story? It wasn't a bad labor or difficult one. Just a long one.

We went in at 9:15 am ready to have Baby Jack. They started me on my antibiotic at about 9:45 am and started Pitocin shortly after. I asked around noon when they were going to break my water. The nurse said that I need to be on the antibiotic for 4 hours and then they start my 2nd dose and the Doctor wants my 2nd dose started before he does. They started 2nd dose a little before 2 and I asked around 3 when the Doctor was coming to break my water. The nurse said she wasn't sure and doesn't know why he hasn't came yet to break it. Around 4:00 a different nurse says to me "Have they told you why Doctor Young hasn't made it here yet to break your water?" I said no. She said well Dr. Parker is on vacation Dr. Saunders is off today and Dr. Allen just got deployed today so Dr. Young is covering for all of them (which that is all of the Doctors so he was covering for all Doctors at my practice). He was going from Mt. Timp Hospital, to AF Hospital, to the office and that is why he hadn't came yet to pop my water. He showed up a little after 5:30 pm and popped it. Remember I had been there since 9:15 am……fun (not). He popped my water and I was only dilated to a 3 when he did. The nurse came to check me 2 hours later at 7:30 and when she did a pool of water came out…..apparently when Dr. Young popped my water not all of it came out. Well there was the rest of it. I was to a 4 and the nurse said now that she got the rest of my water out it should go fast. I started progressing a lot after that and every hour when they checked me I was dilated one more. At 11:30 pm when they checked me I was to an 8. About 5 minutes after that I was ready. I started pushing at 11:45 pm and had Jack at 11:57 pm. We wanted to make sure that he made it here on the 11th! So a 15 hour labor could have been about a 6 if I wouldn't have had to wait 8 1/2 hours to get my water broken!

Jack's middle name is Harrison. The middle name is after my Grandpa and Billy's. Both their names are Harold. His weight was 8 lbs 4 oz and he was 20 1/2 inches. Connor was 8 lbs 5 oz and 21 1/2 inches. Just one ounce difference in weight! Jack is such a good baby not fussy at all. He is just content and calm. He loves to be cuddled and wrapped up which Connor hated and wanted to be free lol. He has jaundice and we have the bili light box right now. He was at a 16 and then yesterday was at a 18. Since it went up we had to take him to the Dr. to get his weight checked and he had only lost an ounce which is great. He is eating and pooping fine which would be a concern with jaundice so that is great too. The Dr. still wanted to get some blood tests done thought since it went up. We went and had them done this morning and it was NO FUN. Watching your 5 day old baby get an iv put in them is pretty heart breaking. Jack hates his light box and we use the blanket a lot since he hates it so much. He hates being naked and free. So funny cuz Connor had to be under the lights for 2 days and he loved being in there and was so content. They are going to call me back with the results on the blood tests so I will keep you all posted. Connor is doing so great with the adjustment of being a big brother! He LOVES attention so I was so worried it was going to be hard on him not getting all the attention. It seriously has not affected him yet. He has been so good and has not acted out or shown signs of jealousy at all! He asks LOTS of questions but the adjustment has not phased him yet. We will see if it does later but I am just so lucky to have such good boys! Ok sorry about the novel here are the pictures of my new beautiful baby boy!

so cute and cuddly!

Jack's hair looks really blonde in this picture but he actually has a full head of DARK hair!

right after I had Jack

don't you just want to eat him up?

ok I had to do this because people seem to not remember that Connor's hair was pretty much the exact same as Jack's! Connor is the one on the left, Jack is the one on the right. They are twinners!