Gavin is Here

To all who didn't know that Angie was pregnant, she isn't anymore. We headed down to the hospital this morning for her to be induced. Her platelets came in at a whopping 146 and it was a big relief for Angie to be able to have the epidural. They started the pitocin at 8:16 and it was contractions galore. The epidural, however, only worked on the right side at first. Then after some work repositioning the catheter and giving a stronger medicine, her left leg went numb. She still had some lower abdominal pain, though.

At one point (of course, right after the anesthesiologist left) she had a really strong contraction that really didn't ease off. In fact, it last five minutes and the baby's heart rate dropped dramatically. That got the nursing staff's attention and they came running in. Angie and I were a little scared about what was happening as they called the OB/GYN to come in "stat." After the contraction, though, his heart rate went up and the doctor said, "let's get that thing out of there!" Angie got him out in about 4 pushes.

The staff kept commenting at how big he was and each placed their guesses on the weight. Most agreed he was just over 9 lbs. Zac was 7 lb 2 oz, Abbi was 7 lb 6 oz, and Carter was 8 lb 12 oz. Gavin came in at a whopping 10 lb 8.3 oz. He has rolls of baby skin that are just so amazing that he looks like our little sharpei. His skin of course is pretty red but we don't think that he'll be as fair as Carter. His hair is a little darker as well, but his eyebrows are really blonde. We are glad he's here and when Angie gets out of the hospital I am sure that she'll edit my post.