Reminiscing about Mikey's Birthday.

I had to dig into my archives to find his journal entry of his birthday.


Here it is below:

October 29th- Michael William Muir is finally here! He was very punctual in his arrival. His expected due date was October 30th and on October 29th at 10:58 pm he was born!

All day on Thursday, October 29th I was feeling very cramp like symptoms and around 7 pm those cramps turned into contractions. By 8:30 pm the contractions were starting to hurt so Scott called the doctor. The doctor told us we could come in or stay home since it sounded like I was still in the early stages of labor and that labors of first time mothers usually last around 12 hours. By 9:00pm we were packed and got in the car to go to the hospital as the contractions were getting more intense.

Once we were at the hospital they of course took their sweet old time checking me in and lost our pre-registration paperwork that we sent in months before-hand so while we were waiting for the doctor to arrive we had to fill out the paperwork again.

About 20 mins. after arriving at the hospital I felt like I needed to push and so they rushed to get the doctor who checked me and determined I was 9 centimeters. Needless to say, after that they started rushing around a bit more. They rushed me into a room and after 20-25 mins of pushing out he came. I asked for something to take the edge off of the pain since having an epidural was out of the question but it was to late and they didn't want me to give birth to a sleepy baby. Start to finish the entire labor and delivery was 4 hours! Phew- are we glad that's over with. Everything happened so quickly that it's hard to remember details.

He was born 7 lbs. 5 oz. and 19.5 inches long and he is beautiful! He has a full head of long, black hair. They did all the standard tests while at the hospital and he has a perfect bill of health. His jaundice score was 2.8 while the average is between 6 and 8! The Apgar scores that he had received during the first and second minute of life was a 9 and 10. Our little rock star!

We spent the next two days at the hospital getting to know our little guy and arrived home around 5 pm on Halloween! So far, we know that he loves to sleep and have his fingers free to suck on and have close by to his face just in case he needs them.

Grandma just got into town and she will be helping out the next 2 weeks. More to come soon.

 

 

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