Braden Carter Robinson

Man, I'm such a slacker. You'd think that it'd take the birth of a baby or something drastic to get me to update our blog.

Well, you're in luck cuz a babe has been born. We are happy to say that Braden finally decided to join our family on Sunday, March 16th at 9am. Granted he was two weeks early, but we just couldn't wait any longer, and at 9lbs I definitely don't think Julie wanted to wait any longer. For the last week everytime Julie got up in the middle of the night to pee I'd be like "Is this it?! Where's my bag?! Where's your bag?! I'm waking up Connor." And of course she would just be "Go back to sleep, I'm just peeing." So we were both a bit anxious. But you have to understand that Julie was dilated to a 4 and 1/2 and 90% ephased (sp) just last Thursday. The doctor didn't think she'd make it through the weekend - and I guess she was right. Sunday morning at 4am Julie's water broke. This time she wasn't just peeing, and wouldn't you know this time she had to wake me (guess there were too many false alarms so I didn't think it was a big deal anymore if she got up at night). We arrived at the hospital at 5:10am. The nurse checked Julie and she was now dilated to almost a 7. Julie wanted an epidural so the nurse got the labs done right away (way to go Nurse Anne cuz I didn't want Julie to have to deliver natural - that would hurt me, too). Still, all this takes a little time. It's about 8:30 now and we're just waiting for the on-call doc to arrive. Julie's no longer in pain which is good because I'm watching the monitor and seeing these major contractions taking place and I'm thinking she'd have ripped my hand off if she was still needing to hold it for that one. Anyway, the doc asks Julie to give her a push so she can see if Braden is ready. That's nearly all it took. The doc said "STOP!" - she still needed to get her gloves and gown on. I guess she wasn't expecting Julie and Braden to be that ready. Well just a few pushes more and Braden was here. And I thought she had a fast and easy delivery with Connor - this one was nothing.
So, all is well. He is a healthy, healthy baby. All the parts are there and where they should be. And Julie is doing pretty well herself. It was nice to be able to come home early and get settled into a comfortable environment versus having to hang out at the hospital.
Connor is pretty happy to have a little baby brother around. He likes to hug, kiss and hold him. We'll have to get some better pictures of the two boys together. So far they haven't turned out well enough to post.
Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.