Well, for those of you that are curious here is how it all played out...I started having some heavy duty contractions about 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday night. They were starting to get about 5-7 minutes apart and so we called Whitney (a minute to praise this wonderful lady-she dropped everything to watch Owen and stay the night so that Zac could be there with me, and stayed most of the next day to make sure he was okay...we can't thank her enough for being there for us...Owen loves her and they had a lot of fun playing), and she came right over and we went as fast as I could coerce Zac to drive and we were there by 6 p.m. and man alive, was I feeling it.
By the time I got to the hospital I was dilated to a 5 and very anxious for drugs. :) I got my epidural and within an hour I was at a 7. They broke my water and we were well on our way to the end. He was born at 8:36 p.m. and our nurses and the on-call doctor were wonderful! We felt so lucky. He had a little too much in his lungs when he was first born and so they took him to the NICU for an hour to keep an eye on his breathing and then he was brought right back to our room. He got a bath and liked it for the most part and just wanted to sleep and cuddle which was great for all of us.
We had a hard time settling on a name. We went in with a list of about 25 or so names that we both liked and then we progressively narrowed it down until we settled on William Hendrix Cook. We'll call him Will. It just fit and we love him so much already!!!! He is really content and only cries when he's messy or we have to wake him up to nurse. We had Whitney come visit yesterday and it was really fun to show him off. My parents got here last night and have been able to spend some time with him too. I think he's won us all over. We left the hospital this afternoon with a sweet new addition to our family. Owen was a little curious to see him when he first got here and wanted to touch him on the cheek a little. CUTE! Here are some pictures of our little guy!
How wonderfully exciting! Congratulations Zach, Jenny, and Owen! Will is such a great name! Good choice! Jenny, glad to hear everything went well! You are such an amazing mother, and you and Zach have a beautiful family. You should be so proud. I love the picture of Owen with his baby brother at the top. So sweet. WE are excited to see more pictures. Enjoy your time with your family. And Congratulations again!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!! I am so excited for you, Jenny :) I'm so glad everything went well. He's a cutie! I love the picture of Owen touching Will's cheek.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!! And what an awesome story! So glad you made it in time. :)
ReplyDeleteHe is precious, Congrats!! We are really happy for you guys, how fun to have 2 boys in a row! I bet they'll be the best of friends!
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