Keeping you posted: Owen's Birth Story

Owen Gregory

8lb 5oz, 21.5in long

born at 8:02 am on Saturday, March 28.

Once again, my due date came and went with no baby. On Tuesday I went to my OB appointment to discuss induction since I would be close to 41 weeks. We settled on Thursday, and Greg and I left the office super excited that we finally saw that the end was in sight and we would get to meet our boy this week! Thursday came and my parents got into town to keep Caroline and we sat around and waited for the call from the hospital to tell us a bed was ready. I was super glad that we were able to put Caroline to bed ourselves and do our normal routine Thursday night, as that would be one less night we would be apart (this was the longest we've been away from her). Finally, around 11pm, we got the call to come in at midnight. So, Greg and I packed up and headed that way! Being induced felt very strange because things just didn't seem real. We were calm, not any huge rush, and everything just seemed so different than being in actual labor. After we got into our room and all the paperwork squared away, we finally got the medicine that would get things started, Cytotec. I was totally pumped because I just knew that after that first dose things would get moving quickly and I would be holding my sweet baby by morning. HAH. SIX doses later, taken every 4 hours, my body finally got the clue that it should get to work, and my water broke at 1:30 am on SATURDAY. From then things did go very quickly. I got an epidural around 4:30 am and boy was that a relief- seriously, my hat is off to those who can birth naturally, I am not one of those women. My incredibly awesome midwife, Judy and her super sweet intern, stayed past her shift (which she'd already been on for 24 hours) to deliver this baby. So, at around 7:30am she asked if I wanted to try pushing...30 minutes later at 8:02am Owen Gregory was laid on my chest! He is absolute perfection! After a few minutes of holding him, Greg cut the cord and then followed him over to the table to get checked out while I got stitched up. He had low blood sugar, so since they were going to take him to the nursery for a bit we went ahead and brought big sister back to meet him first and then the grandparents. Caroline was excited to meet him at first, then became slightly overwhelmed and pouted for a bit. However, once she came back in the afternoon it has been nothing but love ever since. We absolutely could not be more thrilled to finally have our son here! What an incredible blessing he is to our new family of four!

Headed to the hospital- 40+5 weeks