Wow! Lots of really personal responses. I'm sure I can't another boating site that that would be as great as this on in many ways.
So the story...The water broke at 2am and we were on our way to the hospital by 3am (after feeding our zoo of 11 animals and making sure everything was loaded into the car.) Up until about 10am they monitored the usual vitals and noticed that during the contractions the baby's heart rate decreased to as low as 85 from the usual 135-140. The doctor said if this didn't improve by 11-12pm we would be in for an emergency c-section. Well the "dips" as they called them did not go away and we were in the operating room almost immediately.
After 10 minutes of being in the operating room we heard the screams of our 7lb 8oz baby boy. Birthtime was 12:57pm. The doctors were awesome and really great to let me tape just about anything I wanted to...I of course opted out of taping the procedure but me cutting the cord, him getting cleaned up and weighed ect was all taped. I had a couple of pictures too! I can't say enough good about the staff. They are top notch!
They baby is healthy and so far neither he or Mom has had any complications. (Well the baby did have such bad gas last night that he scared the nurse when it let loose! Following in my footsteps already.)
I'm gonna try to post a picture at some point....when I figure it out. Non-x-rated of course. I've had about 3hrs of sleep over the last 3 days...the first time I was too tired to think about the hat...believe it or not. I'm sure I'll be planning my first ride with him on the boat...and with Mom of course! I'm sure my Dad is itching to get out too.
NYrussel...I may take you up on that if you think they'll fit him. (email
jrs8818@msn.com to let me know what and when.) Thanks for the generosity! We do have the Hatteras coveralls, which I'd like to put on him for his picture I want to post and maybe his first ride on the boat!
This entire thing has been awesome so far, except for the sleepless part of course. (I now have 3 changed diapers on my record!)
I'll keep things updated as much as possible.
