Well, Josiah finally made it!  I say finally, but he was a week early… Anyway, Patti’s water broke yesterday and she had a non-stress test at the hospital anyway, so when she went in for that, they took her vitals, and sent her home with instructions to come back this morning if she hadn’t started into labour all by her self.
Well this morning came and no labour, so we went into the hospital just after 7:30 and got all hooked up. They started an IV drip at 1 unit per hour and then slowly increased it every half hour. The most they can go to before they need a specialist is 20 units per hour and we got there. We hung around until after 1:00pm and still no real contractions, but by 1:30 at 20 units per hour we started having contractions. Then at about 2:30 they were actually really starting to hurt and Patti didn’t think that really anything had happened yet, so we better get some pain med for the rest of the ride. Nurse made it in by about 2:35 and checked and Patti was at 7cm dilated and so went to get pain meds and call our dr. The nurse came back in a few minutes later (now about 2:45) and got ready to give the pain meds. Patti had a fairly hard contraction right then and the nurse quickly gave her the meds and then did another check and said that she was fully dilated and could push if she needed to. so the next contraction Patti gave a good push and the entire head came out in one shot. The cord was wrapped around the neck so they quickly pulled that out of the way and cut it, then removed the rest of the baby. The time was 2:58.
The specialist showed up about 10 minutes too late and the pain meds kicked in about 10 minutes after that. Good timing!!!
He weighed in at 7 lb 12 oz and was 20.9 inches long. The nurse said that he had the largest umbilical cord she had ever seen, and was perfect in every way.
He is an amazing nurser and quite pleasant. There are a million more photos of him and baby and him and relatives and him and flowers and him and so on. I’ll let Patti choose which ones to post tomorrow, so you get the one above for now. (Ain’t he cute?!?)
Have a good night.
As the song goes, ” Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful..beautiful boy..” Well done Jon and patti! We’re so happy for you both.
awwww!!! Beautiful! Big Huge Congrats to you guys!!!!
he is perfect!!!
Congratulations on Josiah’s safe arrival – your family is complete. It will be interesting from now on more than ever. Thankful for the blog to keep track of what has, is and will be happening. He is a beautiful baby boy, looks the picture of health.
Aunty Ruth says can’t wait to hold him.
Love Aunty Hope and Aunty Ruth
Congratulations Jon and Patti, Wishing you all the wonderful joys that come with a new little one.
Always,
Jennifer
wow he came out fast and bruised his face eh?!!
he looks so different from the others when they were babies… well from what I remember!!
so happy 4 u all!! lots of love hugs and kisses
oh and I totally noticed the size of his hands!!! big boy!!! love all the pics on flicker
Holy Cow! Patti- you look amazing!! Unbelievable. You look like a model in the pics just after having a baby. Sounds like everything went VERY fast.
Congrats Patti and Jon… I have to agree with you he is very cute. And Patti you did look amazing after having him. Love