Happy Birthday Porter!!!

Well, HE finally made his debut. For those of you who are interested in the details....here they are......(if you aren't you can just skip to the pictures).

Porter's Birth Story...
Apparently, my water broke on Saturday. I did think it was a little strange to have a small leak when I walked, but I didn't want to be the woman rushing to the hospital only to find out I was peeing on myself. So I kinda thought if this was it I would have some other signs....like contractions or something. NOPE. Monday I called the OB to tell them about the leak and a pain in my arm (that may or may not have been a blood clot) and they had me come in and check. They ran some tests and it was indeed my water and sent me along to the hospital. After many hours of nothing happening they decided to give me a bit of pitocen (inducing drug). At 3am I was in a lot of pain and only 3 cm. She gave me some medicine to help me sleep. That lasted for an hour. Finally at 8 am I got an epidural at 5 cm. Not sure how anybody does it without the drugs....it was a lifesaver. Expecting delivery in the afternoon sometime my dr paraded off to do a surgery. At 9:30 the nurse was insisting that she check and sure enough the head was halfway out. I didn't feel a thing with the drugs...thank God. So she paged my dr and 45 minutes later he was out and crying. So he was born at 10:48am on October 20th weighing a whopping 8lb 4 oz and 20 inches. He did have a bit of a fever from my membranes being ruptured for so long. He had his first bath.....and we were moved to a room. I think he looks a lot like Sawyer with the dark hair, but I am sure it will change.

Thursday we finally were released. The kids were so excited when we walked in....not to see me....but to the the baby. They have said "baby" a million times and go looking for him when the go into the room. They have been really sweet and give Porter kisses. Danner is especially sweet and loves to hold him. Sawyer likes to call him "baby" and point to him.

He is an extremely good baby so far. Most of the time I have to wake him up to eat....but I am sure that will change soon. We are still back and forth to the dr having blood work done to check his white blood cells, jaundice levels, and blood platelets. Hopefully things will clear up and he can enjoy NOT having his heel pricked everyday.

As for the VBAC.....much, much better than the c-sct. I am up and walking around practically pain free. I will definitely do it all over again if I had the choice. The dr said she thought for sure that I would really want the c-sct after such a long labor and was quite surprised that it was a success with such a big boy.

Okay that is all for now. Gotta get some sleep. More pictures to come.....I have so many cute ones.