Crew was born on November 24th 2012 at 5:17 am
Weight 7lbs 14 oz
Length 20 1/2 inches
He was born 3 weeks early. Original due date December 14th 2012
I kept asking Crew to come early. I didn't want a December birthday, but I knew that I was going to let him pick his own birthday and not be induced. But a 12/12/12 birthday would be pretty cool too.
It all began Thanksgiving day...
Bryan and I had some major black Friday shopping we wanted to get done before Crew got here. We pulled an all nighter and by the end of the shopping we were very pleased with our purchases and also sick with how much we spent. We finally got to bed around 7 in the morning. Woke up around noon and started decorating the apartment for Christmas. I had to go to work that night at 6 pm (I work the night shift). At work I was just getting ready to eat my dinner, I reached down in the fridge to get my water bottle and POP! My water broke around 9 pm. I started freaking out and the one thing on my mind was... I thought I had 3 weeks left of sleeping through the night and now those nights are over.
So Bryan came and picked me up from work and we got to the Hospital around 9:30 pm. We had an awesome nurse. She started me on the Pitocin and got the epidural soon after (Epidurals are sooooooo amazing). Then I had Crew 5:17 that next morning. Bryan was falling asleep during the pushing part. Can you blame him going two nights without sleep. It was a good experience and I thought everything went very smoothly. After Crew was born the only problem that he had was a low blood sugar (probably a withdrawal from not getting loads of sugar from me). That problem soon corrected itself and he was as healthy as a baby can be and super CUTE.
Waiting (Before the pain started)
Proud Parents
Happy Family
Love at first sight
Grandma Spackman
Grandma Edmunds
Grandpa Spackman
Grandpa Edmunds
Three Generations
It was a party, Thanks for coming
The first scrub down
Such a big boy for 3 weeks early
Rethinking wanting to get out of that warm place
Taking a nap with Grandpa
Getting a taste of his fingers
His first bath
He started to finally relax
My Champ
The next two are from my phone
We are getting ready to go home
He is so excited to go home and so am I
YEAH!! I love that you started a blog, I will definitely be checking in. Crew is so sweet. It was really good to see you last weekend.
ReplyDeleteThat is so wonderful! I'm glad you posted his birth story. Keep blogging :-)
ReplyDeleteYay for mommy blogs! Crew is so precious and the look on your face shows how much you love him.
ReplyDeleteI just love how much hair is on his little head! We keep wanting to come see you guys but then we get sick...I think Al just wants to see Bryan as a dad :-)
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