Roper Recaps: Baby Roper

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Day has arrived...

I was scheduled to be induced on June 19th, so we had our bags packed the night before. We got up and took our showers and headed off to be at the hospital at 5:30 that morning!

Here is a picture of us before we left the house!

We got to the hospital and immediately they got me in the bed and started my IV. I had 3 nurses get me checked in and they were laughing that you don't normally get that much attention but we guessed it was a slow morning at the maternity wing!

Then the waiting began I was in the bed by 5:45 with my IV started and then they came in at 8:45 to break my water. She asked if I wanted the epidural then. I said as soon as I can have it would be great. Then they informed me I had to have 2 huge bags of fluid before I could have the epidural so we waited again... Finally at 10:10 they came in and gave me the epidural!

We waited some more... with company though!

I dilated to a 10 and the nurses were busy with a c-section then and since I had an epidural they delivered another girl before me also. So I had 2 women deliver before they came in to deliver Calen. It was not a big deal to me since I couldn't feel the contractions except for the part where Calen would shove a foot in my left rib cage! At 2:20 the Doctor came in and kicked out our parents and they got me ready to deliver. I pushed roughly 9 times and

Calen was here at 2:42.

I was freezing after I had him! It is so weird how your hormones go all crazy and 1 minute you are burning up and the next you are freezing!

Our First Family Photo

Calen Isaac came at 2:42 p.m. on June 19th, weighing 7lbs and 12 oz, He was 21 inches long, and with red hair.

Maternity Pictures...

We had our pictures done by a professional before Calen was born! I was 36 Weeks along and he did an amazing job with everything. We went to the Farragut library for most of them and then he took some of our nursery! Here are most of them!