The Arrival of...

Carter Shane Darling, 9lbs 3.2oz, 21" long! He's as cute as can be and we are so in love! Everything went well! We came in at 6pm last night and started cervidil, I had contractions all night long and didn't sleep at all. I felt really sick this morning, nauseous and shaky...eventually that subsided. They were worried about my blood pressure - it was all over the place. It calmed down after a while, however they had to take blood and check some things to make sure I was ok. After all that chaos, they started the pitocin and that started working fairly quickly. I decided to try the epidural, after talking with Brian and the nurse and even the amazing anesthesologist who really calmed me down, and it WORKED!!! For the first time I had a great epidural. Brian and I were able to rest for about 2 hours, then things got nuts. The nurse had checked me and I was at a 7, they were going to put in an internal monitor for contractions because the regular monitor wasn't picking anything up, so she went to go talk to the in charge nurse and call the Doc...when she left the room, Carter decided it was time to come out! I had intense pain and had to push...so Brian pushed the nurse button and there was no response, he then hit the emergency button and again no response! At this point he went out into the hallway, saw the nurses standing there - our nurse and the in charge nurse who was talking to our Doc, and he clapped really loud...it was kinda funny. They came running down and the doc was up in our room about 2 minutes later...3 contractions and a lot of hard work and out he came :). He was our runt of the bunch weighing 0.6oz less than Evan. It was a very rapid delivery, but went very well. That's about it :). He is here!!! =) Yay!