Welcome to the World Rowan William!!!

4:30 am- After seven hours of good sleep, which was the first time in several months that I had a solid night of sleep, I woke up with zestful energy and decided to get a few hours of work in. Contractions were still periodic.

7:00 am- Brevin had been feeling under the weather, so my work day looked a little bit different today. After a couple of productive hours of work, I joined him in our bed to snuggle and watch PBS Kids. He watched cartoons and I got two more hours of sleep. Contractions were still periodic.

10:30 am- Brevin and I spent the next hour and a half closing up shop at the office to make sure that everything was squared away for maternity leave. Contractions were still periodic.

12:00 pm- Left with Brevin and Rebecca from work to do some shopping at Ikea for the Spring Lake Park campus. After driving a little ways, the contractions started to be more regular, so I told Rebecca that we had to start timing them. They started coming every 6-10 minutes for the next hour.

1:30 pm- Started the drive home and the contractions started to be 2-3 minutes apart. This is where I went into denial. I was really hoping to go to Wendy's, but Becky convinced me to call the clinic again to get their expert opinion. They told me to go to the hospital, so I called Heath and told him to be on his way. Rebecca, Brevin, and I went home to get the final things packed in the bag and Rebecca drove me to the hospital. What a dear friend to just roll with it and deal with my slight freaking out that this was happening like NOW!

3:30 pm- Heath arrived and we got settled into room #5. Contractions started to get stronger and they checked to see how much I was dilated. I was at a 5! (Do you know how long it took to get to a 5 last time?!?!) The epidural was ordered.

4:30 pm- The epidural arrived. Epidural = Happiness (for me and Heath)

8:00 pm- Time to push. (oh yeah.)

9:00 pm- Done pushing, not enough progression, signs of stress on Rowan and also a high amount of mechonium. Crazy turn of events to decide on C-section. It was very nerve racking but we had a great surgical team. It proved to be the best decision they could have made because Rowan managed to get two knots in his umbilical cord which would not have been a good situation had we tried for a natural birth.

9:36 pm- Baby Rowan born via C-Section. He definitely has a Vosberg nose, but not as crazy as Snuffalopagus. 8'14" and 21 1/2" long. :) There were a lot of tears from both of us with the reality of him finally being here!!

11:30 pm- First visitors. Grandpa Gordy and Grandma Val, Grandma Melanie, Becky and Ryan, and Tina!

12:21 am- First bath with some tears, but dad did a bang up job calming him down.

Thank you for your prayers and support throughout the last 9 months. Rowan looks forward to meeting all of his extended family and friends.