Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Luke J Jones

Luke is one week old today so I think it's time I finally sit down and record his story. Everything went exactly how I wanted it to. I made it through Kevin's business trip when I was 38 weeks pregnant, and then finally until Kevin's mom flew in. I had a scheduled inductions, which I love because it's predictable and under my control. I had been having inconsistent contractions for a couple of days, but on Monday they started to get more consistent and stronger. As we drove to the hospital that night, my contractions started to intensify.
I had the most wonderful nurse, I was her only patient!
(I hate all those monitors, they get so itchy!)
One of my favorite parts about Cedars is the view from the labor and delivery rooms, so beautiful!I was all hooked up by 11:00pm and got my epidural around 12:30am and about 10 minutes later, rolled over and my water broke! I fell asleep, when my nurse came in at 2:15am she checked me and I was already 10cm! She told me I was going to start pushing soon. I wasn't ready, I wanted to sleep some more. My doctor walked in at 2:30, I pushed 6 times and Luke was out at 2:44am! Easiest delivery ever!Since my delivery was so fast, he didn't get squeezed enough so he had a lot of fluid in his lungs and tummy still. He was really grunty.

Luke weighed in at 9lbs. 5oz. A BIG boy! He was 20 inches long.

It always amazes me when I hold my new baby. It is amazing that their body was inside mine, how on Earth did they fit?It feels so good to see Kevin hold our new baby. I have a picture just like this one of him holding Hannah and one of Gavin. I can't believe I have 3 kids! Our family feels complete now.
I'm trying to soak up every moment with Luke, he is changing so fast. My recovery has been very easy thanks to an easy delivery and probably all that exercising I did.

Now, on to the name... Luke was one of our favorite names when we were picking Gavin's name, we had a little conflict with the spelling though. J is Grandpa Brown's (Kevin's Grandpa) middle name. It was supposed to be "Jay" but the person who filled out his birth certificate spelled it "J." So in honor of Grandpa Brown, we chose "J" as Luke's middle name. When we told Grandpa Brown he teared up.

5 comments:

..::k.toms::.. said...

I'm so happy the delivery went so well!
Little Luke is perfect! He looks A LOT like Kevin in these pictures!!!
Congrats you guys!!!
Can't wait to meet him in April!

The Peterson's said...

I like reading labor stories like that! Nothing terrifying at all. I need to keep up on the exercising that is for sure!

Anie said...

Wow- short and VERY sweet!!!! I can only agree with you about exercising while pregnant- it does wonders after!! I was walking around a couple hours after delivery- feeling fabulous, and then on hands and knees, mopping floors a couple days after I got home (MY choice- you know me and my OCD tendencies:) ANyway, glad to hear everything is going great for you and you're adjusting to 3 kids fabulously! I knew you would!! you're amazing!! Can't wait to see you guys NEXT MONTH!!! :)

Garrett and Leslie said...

Oh my goodness....I hate you for your easy delivery!!! Just Kidding! Glad everything went well!

Robin said...

Yeah Court! He's a cutie!