Baby Boy S. arrives!!

Disclaimer: This is the same info as the email that was sent out to those of you I have email addresses for...just wanted to let you all know.

So I know that I have been behind in letting everyone know, but for those of you who still may not know, our baby boy was born June 8th, 2009 at 11:05 pm. We named him Parker Scott Siebert. He weighed in at 7 pounds 3 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.

Here's how it basically all went down:

We were not really expecting to go to our doctor appointment Monday afternoon and end up being sent to St. Paul to have a ripening agent applied. And even more than we weren't expecting to do that, we weren't expecting to get to that second appointment to find out that we weren't going to get the ripening agent, and instead were going to be admitted because we had a bishop score of 8 (whatever that means) and I guess that meant that I was admittable and induceable.

I was kind of freaked out, but think that I handled it pretty well, until contractions started coming more frequently and I actually started to feel them...in my back. It was a quick evening as we were admitted between 5 and 6 pm, and he was born at 11. It was especially quick as they never applied the ripening agent and they never even started the induction medication.

I had to go to the bathroom about once an hour from 8 pm on, and about 10 pm, I went and then had to go again about 15 minutes later. The nurse said that she wanted to check me first as I had been holding steady at about 1.5 cm for dialation. So she checked me and said something along the lines of "oh my, the cervix is gone. It's time to deliver this baby." I asked her if I would get my epidural then and she said, "Oh honey, we don't have time." That was about 10:30, and from that time until Parker was born, I was in super freak out mode. Sonny says that I didn't cry. And I know I didn't curse a blue streak (I think I swore 2 times). But I was still freaking out. I was just plain panicked.

But as I mentioned, we got through it. Parker was born at 11:05 pm and I didn't have to worry anymore about going into labor when Sonny was at work.

If you would like to see pictures of Parker, please go to the unitedhospital.com website and you will be able to find the picture. Or just copy and paste this link:

http://www.our365.com/NewbornPortraits/HospitalResults.aspx?sid=7870&S=true&SM=ByHospital&BM=6&BY=2009&BD=8

I will try to get some of our candid shots up here soon. But as you can see, it's 12:15 am as I write this and I should get some shut eye before the next feeding, so it will have to wait for now.