For those of you that are interested, here's the story of Connor's appearance into the world:
Saturday morning around 11 I started getting contractions that were about 4 minutes apart, but they weren't very strong so we decided to do some shopping and see what happened. Our hospital is in Irvine, which is about 45 minutes north of us, so we drove up to an Ikea close to the hospital and brought our bags with us just in case we ended up going to the hospital while we were up there. After doing a bunch of shopping my contractions were still 4 minutes apart and were getting stronger, so we called Ryan's sister to take Carter and we headed over to the hospital around 5pm.
I was hooked up to the monitors and the contractions were between 3 and 4 minutes apart. The doctor came in and checked me and said I was at a 4, so they were going to admit me. (Ryan and I were both so relieved that this baby was actually going to be born with only one visit to the hospital!) After a couple hours the contractions started getting further apart, so we walked the halls for a while.
A few hours later the contractions still weren't as close together, so they started me on Pitocin and the doctor came in and broke my water just after midnight to help things along. Things started progressing very quickly after that. It didn't take long for me to request an epidural. The nurse kept assuring me that the lady would be there soon to give me the epidural, but she lied. :( Before I knew it I felt like I needed to push. The nurses were all rushing to finish getting things ready and the doctor got there as I started to push. (The epidural lady showed up about this time as well and was told it was too late.) After just a few pushes, our little guy was here and we were so happy to finally get to meet him!
Just waiting
He's here!
Daddy cutting the cord
Our "little" guy weighed in at 7 lbs. 15 oz...half a pound lighter than his big brother.
