Baby Carson is here!

Carson Jacob Craig

arrived February 10th 2012 at 11:43 am

7 lbs 12 ounces

20 inches

We had a feeling he would be here early, in fact, I'm surprised he waited until Friday!  (I guess he wanted me to finish out my work week!)

My water broke 2:30 Friday morning.  I wasn't having contractions yet, so we called the midwife and then crawled back into bed per her orders (yeah right, like I'd be able to sleep).  Around 5:30 I started having some infrequent contractions, so we got up and started getting ready.  We dropped off Rylee with my mom (luckily she hadn't left for work yet) and got to the hospital around 8:00.  By 9:30 my contractions were starting to get more frequent and intense.  By 11:00 they informed me I would not be getting an epidural because the anesthesiologist was in a c-section.  At this time I proceeded to freak out just a little bit (that was the only thing I had put in my birth plan)!  By 11:15 they told me that the midwife was not available and the hospitalist would have to deliver my baby (another small freak out moment for me).  At this time I realized that nothing was going as planned and I would just have to suck it up and have this baby au-natural.  Luckily, he was just the right size and came out quickly.  By 11:45 I was holding my beautiful baby boy in my arms.

My parents brought Rylee to visit later that day.  She absolutely fell in love with baby Carson. 

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We spent the  rest of the day recovering and enjoying our new bundle of joy.  We had a few visitors stop by to meet Carson (although I failed to get pictures, dang it!).  Carson surprised me by taking to nursing very quickly.  He latched on right away and continues to nurse well.  The following day was spent seeing nurses, the pediatrician, the lactation consultant, and getting newborn labs drawn.

We were cleared to go home after 24 hours.  I was very surprised at this, I had no idea you could go home so soon!  We were ecstatic to bring Carson home and finally have our family together!