John - We’re back home and settling in, and Evan’s birth story will be up soon, but the basics are that Jeanette went into labor around 6:30 on Saturday night, while were out at dinner. The contractions kept coming, so we went to the hospital at 11:12 (we got in an 11:11 wish in the driveway! Of course it was already coming true..)
We were admitted to Fairview Ridges a few minutes later, it comes in handy living about 2 miles from a great hospital. Jeanette labored on like a trooper until 5:01 AM July 13, 2008, when Evan James Morrison came into the world.
He did great on all his vitals and weighed in at a whopping 9lbs, 13oz, even after taking a tinkle om Mommy and I. He was 22 inches long, and had a 14cm head. (”A very important number”, as I was told by a very serious looking nurse who wanted to impress upon me how big of a kid Evan really was.)
We spent the next few days getting to know our little guy, who has an excellent disposition, as long as he’s fed, and not sitting in his own filth (like me!) and had grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, great grandparents and friends stopping by to welcome Evan to this world. (Post-Uterus..)
I’m sure that Jeanettte will be putting up a much more detailed and moving story about how it all went down, but until then, here’s a few pictures to tide you over!
16/07/2008 at 9:11 am Permalink
When you figure that you only dilate to 10 cm, I’d say 14 is a pretty significant number. Let me just say OUCH!!!
He’s super cute and your hospital pictures look like it was a really nice place to be.
Congratulations Daddy.
16/07/2008 at 8:48 pm Permalink
Congratulations to all! Thanks for sharing all of the great pics.