As everyone knows by now, Lucas Alexander Smith was born January 2, 2011 at 10:34pm. It was a long and tiring journey to get him here but it was worth all the effort (all of which Laura had to endure). So to put it into a short story: At 1 am on January 2 Laura's water broke while we were at home. We waited in the house for a while to make sure our assumptions were correct. Well, they were. We went to the Emergency Room and got admitted into L&D around 2:30 am. The room we initially were in had a leak in one of the light fixtures (I know, kind of dangerous). So we moved to our permanent room for the day. After several hours of contractions and the nurses bumping Laura's Pitocin levels to a 28 (level 30 being the highest) they gave her an epidural. Laura stayed dilated at a 3 basically all day and the doctor finally suggested a C-section. One thing to note is that our doctor was not on call for the weekend, so we had another doctor do the C-section. Doctor Caldwell was great. So after 21 hours of labor and only getting to a 3, Lucas was forcefully brought into this world (lol).
He has been a joy and a blessing to our house. The best baby any parents could ask for. We are trying to get him on an eat/wake/sleep schedule right now. He sleeps during car rides and hardly ever cries (knock on wood). There will be more to come as he grows up. Here are some pictures of his first few days:
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| His birth information |
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| His first outfit. |
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| Momma and her little man in the hospital. |
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| Our handsome young man. |
What a good looking baby!
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