A Day in the Life

We are home from the hospital and so happy to be here. I have uploaded the birth announcement I made for baby Nolan. I hope you like it and will join me in welcoming Nolan to our family. We’ll have another post later today or tomorrow with more photos.

Baby Nolan Birth Announcement

I am going to use the same blog post for these updates so good luck keeping up.

1:00 pm We got the green light to start pushing. Yeah!

2:00 pm He has brown hair, he’s still inside. But we are making progress.

2:57 pm Baby Boy was born. He was 7 lbs 14oz.

Here is a picture of the little guy. There will be more that follow.

Now it’s not 10:00 am and no baby. Andrea is doing great, making progress and feeling fine. She is at an 8 and 90%. They started a potocin drip and the contractions are very regular and close together. Now all we’re waiting for is a little more dilation and we should start pushing!

Well we decided to go to the hospital at midnight and honestly I thought they were going to send us home. However, at around 1am Andrea was at a 6 with regular contractions so they put us in lucky room number 7. The luck part is important, because incase you didn’t know today is Friday the 13th…

Andrea was being tough and doing well. Her doctor came in at 3:30th and broke her water and now the pain is on. At 4 she got the epidural so now it should be smooth sailing.

Hopefully Andrea can get some rest before she starts pushing.

One other fun fact at about 1:30 I walked out to the car and someone called my name but honestly I just assumed it was my sleep deprived mind going a little crazy. However, I wasn’t dreaming, our good friends Joel and Jen were here because their water broke too. So tonight has been full of excitement.

I’ll update you all as more develops, but go to bed, I know I want to!

So Andrea had her membranes stripped today and was at a 4.5. So we were expecting the labor to start anytime now. We went on a long walk after dinner and Andrea got contractions like she has been for a few days as we walked. Every other time the contractions stop when we stop walking, however, this time they have continued to come. It is strange since this is our first “real birth” (Addie ended up in an emergency C-Section after being induced, and because the doctor had to be home for dinner…) so we don’t really know if this is what it is supposed to feel like.

Here is what we know, thanks to Daddy 511, an Andriod app we have the data to present:

• We have been tracking contractions for 3 hours and 13 minutes
• Andrea has had 35 contractions
• They are averaging about 1 minute long with about 3-5 minutes between each one

As our application keeps telling us it is time to go, but Andrea isn’t in a lot of pain or discomfort. So should we go? My little sister just had a baby and they told her to not go to the hospital until the contractions were so painful that she couldn’t walk.

I think we may go and get turned away, but at least then I won’t have to deliver my baby in the bath tub like “Dr” Barnett.

More updates to follow…