Our newest addition has arrived! It is an absolutely glorious day now that I'm no longer pregnant. After our appointment on Wednesday, I thought we'd be waiting until sometime next week to have Brody; but God had other plans and I went into labor quite on my own on Thursday, March 10. I had irregular but painful contractions starting Thursday morning so I called Mike home from work and we took Logan and dropped her off with some friends. We checked into the hospital at 10:30am and my active labor started at 12:30pm and ended promptly at 3:17pm with a grand total of 2 hrs and 47 minutes in active labor. If my water ever breaks at home, I'm afraid we'll have a home birth with the rate at which my labor progresses when they break it.
With all the work my body did in preparation for weeks and weeks in advance, it was a nice reward to only go hard for that long. I got an epidural early on this go around and it once again sped the process along nicely, unfortunately, it wore off right as I was about to push so I did get to experience that very naturally this go around, but I only pushed for 11 minutes and he was out.
7 lbs 5oz (they rounded up) and 20 1/2 inches long. Not a whole lot different than his big sister who was 6 lbs 14oz and 19 inches long and was born 2 weeks prior to her due date.
He has got a mighty set of lungs. When they tell you baby boys sound completely different--they're right! Gone are the sweet little girl wails and in come the growly, howling wails that little boys produce. But it's music to our ears (for now) because it means he's here with us.
The practice I've been going to makes you rotate Dr.'s so that you've seen all the Dr.'s in the practice when you deliver. This way whoever is on call you've seen and at least met before. We started with Dr. Creighton and I was really, really hoping we'd end with her. Our appointment on Wednesday was with her and she assured us she thought we'd be back in L&D before our scheduled induction and I was very excited when she walked in as our delivering Dr.! Our nurse, Anne, was fantastic, too. She was so sweet at made me really feel comfortable throughout the entire process.
We are so in love with this little boy. I thought it'd be harder to bond with a baby this go around since I've got one already and have such a bond with her but it was pretty instant! Mike's reaction this go around has been different. His bond with Logan was very much a protective father/daughter bond and it's fun to see the different bond he already has with his son.
And it was soon after this that he started making phone calls announcing his name! Brody is not a family name, it's just a name that Mike and I really liked. We instantly agreed on it and thought it fitting for him. Obviously, Michael is a family name and it's fun that Logan and I share a middle name and that Brody and Mike share a name, too!
We had an ok first night. Brody is a lot more alert than Logan was, but that's ok because we enjoy looking into his sweet eyes and interacting with him. His sister, though, does wear him out, as evidenced here:
Logan has spent the entire day with us, today, so that she gets a chance to bond with Brody, too. Here she is opening her present from him:
He got her a big sister book, a Disney Princess sing along (to watch here at the hospital) and her own Disney Princess camera. She had fun "snapping shots" this morning.
Logan is very in love with her brother. She wants to hold him every second she's around. If she sees someone else holding him or if she sees him put down she immediately bounces, "I hold, PEAS? My baby, I hold him, peas, mom?" She knew right away who he was and there seemed to be no confusion as to the fact that he was no longer inside of me.
I think they'll be good friends one day.
...or she'll just boss him around and act like a second mother to him. :)
Both babies are napping together right now. We have a video of Logan first seeing Brody, I'll try and post that sometime in the next few days.
Thank you for all of the prayers and congratulations! We are so thrilled to finally be a family of four. (I have several other pictures that are attached to the iphone, I'll try and post a separate post with all of those, too)
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