Linc was born at 6:46 pm on July 19th. He weighed 7lbs 8.5 oz and was 19 1/4 inches long.
Tina's contractions started at about 10 am on Saturday. We had a bunch of good contractions, and walked around the block to make them stop or get worse. Fortunately, they got closer together and started lasting longer so Tina decided to go to hospital. We got to the St. Josephs at about noon and got admitted to maternity triage. The nurse came by to check Tina, made a quick call to our OB, and decided that they were going to break her water and kick this delivery into high gear.
We moved down the hall into our delivery room and got Tina hooked up to the monitors. At approximately 1 or 2 in the afternoon the OB came in and broke her water. Without the extra padding in there, the contractions were a lot more painful and Tina got her Epidural. Over the next few hours Tina, our nurse and I waited for Tina to fully dilate. During the process, Tina's whole body began shaking like she was shivering cold. The contractions were really taking it out of her, fortunately, she was numb from the waist down and didn't feel any of it. She was like, "Wow this must really be painful! I'm glad I can't feel it!" By 6 pm Tina was locked and loaded and was given the OK by the OB to start pushing. A half an hour later, Tina was told to stop pushing while the OB finished delivering a baby in the next room over. At about 6:40 the OB came in, had Tina do a couple of pushes and at 6:46 Linc was born.
At first Linc was really purple from having the cord wrapped around his neck, but the nurses took him and he really pinked up while they were cleaning him off. He scored an 8/9 for his APGARs. As Linc came out he inhaled some amniotic fluid so was having a little trouble breathing and clearing the junk from his lungs. To be on the safe side they took Link up to the intensive care unit for monitoring, I went up there with him. At first he was going to have to be up there for 4 hours, but he was doing so well he only had to be there for 1 hour. We went back downstairs to visit with Tina and get Linc a bath.
After a bath, we moved into our Couplet Care room, where we stayed for 2 nights. We learned how to change diapers, and feed him, and other baby stuff. After he got circumcised on Monday afternoon, we got to take him home. Yeah.
Taking care of babies is hard. Pretty much we either feed him, change him, or just let him sleep, the hard part is that we have to do all this half asleep. I hope we get a better sleep routine figured out soon. It's pretty nerve racking, but totally worth it. It's funny how everybody always says that they have the cutest baby. I don't know what they are talking about, because ours its the cutest. They are delusional.
Thanks for all the support!
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