ETD has arrived!!

ETD arrived Friday afternoon at 3:17pm. I had a scheduled induction for Friday. Thursday night when i was trying to sleep (what a joke) I had big plans for blogging once we got to the hospital. That didn't really work ..oh well. Overall everything went well. We got to the hospital around 7 am after making a stop for a final meal of just the 2 of us--at 6am.

We were in our assigned room by 8 and I had 'pit' going by 9am. I thought things would progress quickly with being the third baby. I stayed a 3 from this point until around 11am. I got my epidural (2 sticks--not bad considering my sister was stuck 7 times) and the midwife broke my water around noon. At this point I was a 5 and stayed a 5 until 240. My epidural worked great on my bottom and my feet. I could still feel everything above that. So I guess it kinda worked, but I was still in a lot of pain during contractions. At 240 they checked me and I was a 6. I called my mom and dad at 305 and told them not to rush up when ATD got home from school that I was still a 6 and it may be a while. ETD made his debut about 10 minutes later. He surprised all of us by coming so quick. Luckily the midwife made it! I only had to push one contraction and he was here. (with OTD i pushed for 2 1/2 hours) He weighed in at 7#0 oz and 20 1/2 in long. Here are a few pictures. I'm sure we will have more to follow...