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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Levi Daniel

Well hello there...I have been trying to write this post for a month...but it is finally happening! Oh well.

Levi Daniel joined our family on August 20, 2013 at 12:27pm. It was by far my easiest labor and delivery and he is already such a blessing to us.

Levi weighed in at 6lbs. 9oz. (our smallest little peanut) and was 19 inches long. He is adorable and all of his sisters are loving on him constantly. We intended to take our own newborn pictures of him when we got home from the hospital but that didn't happen. When he grew out of his newborn clothes, I went ahead and ordered the pictures from the hospital to share with you all! Enjoy!











Some details:

On Monday the  19th, I went for my routine 37 week visit at the doctor. I didn't feel well...can't pinpoint what was wrong but I was tired and just plain sick feeling. The Doctor told me that I was doing so well with my blood pressure and gestational Diabetes that they would probably not induce until closer to 40 weeks. Don't EVER tell a pregnant lady that she will not go past 39 weeks and then take it back. I was upset to say the least. I went to the mall...ate a hot pretzel...and purchased the last few things I felt that we needed for baby boy...and a Sophie Giraffe just because I was mad. HA!

That night, I decided that I would finally put some things in my suitcase...because it had been sitting empty in our bedroom for weeks. I was having some contractions...they hurt...but I went to bed anyways since it was still a few weeks until my due date. I figured if I fell asleep, than the contractions weren't real. At midnight (ish) I fell asleep. I woke up at 2am and my first thought was, "I guess the contractions weren't real" and I kid you not, my water broke the very next second! 

A little of my history will tell you that I have been induced with 2 of my pregnancies and with Libby, I sort of went into labor but had pre eclampsia so they kept it going for our safety. I was giddy with excitement because there was no question that baby boy was coming to meet us!

My mom came over to stay with the other kids and Tom and I left for the hospital. Everything at the hospital was fairly normal but one funny thing was that we had a nurse named Tana. This is only funny to those of you who understand that Libby has an imaginary friend with this same name and pronounciation (Taw-nah). 

At 9:00 am they decided to give me some pitocin because my contractions were still 5-7 minutes apart and I was only a few centimeters dilated...I was fine with that but told them to just give me the epidural too figuring we were settling in for a long day. At 11am, I was 6 cm and by noon was fully dilated. They called the doctor and by the time he got in to my room, I pushed through 2 contractions (6 minutes) and Levi was here. I still had my eyes closed focused on pushing and was actually thinking "I can't possibly do this for 2 more hours" (just assuming that he was a huge baby and that this part would not go quickly) when the doctor told me to look. It was crazy how fast and easy it all was. I am not claiming that it was painless...it was not. But it was soooooo much easier than my experience with Janessa and for that I am incredibly thankful. 

He is here...hopefully we will update more frequently...but you never know!