1st Real Bath!

Here's pictures of Jacob's first real bath! His hair almost looks strawberry blonde in these pics but I think it's just the lighting.

Making baby soup!

Getting nice clean hair!

All wrapped up after getting all cleaned up!

Here's Jacob's face after he peed and pooped after his bath... It's as if he's saying "oops."

After bath number two to clean up the pee and poo!

In the Operating Room

Here's all of the pictures that Chris took during my C Section...

I didn't want him to take any of me but he snuck some in!

Jacob Robert

My beautiful baby boy, Jacob Robert, arrived Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 6:36pm!

So here's the process of Jacob's journey into the world!... I checked into the hospital on Monday night to start the process of induction, and Tuesday morning at around 5:00am the pitocin was started. When the doctor came around to check on me at around 6:45am, I had not dialated any yet. He came back around 12:45pm, and I managed to dialate a whole 1cm, which was just enough for him to break my water. After my water was broken, everything progressed alot faster! I received my epidural around 2:00pm (Thank goodness for epidurals!). By about 3:00pm I was dialated 3cm, and by 4:40pm I was up to 5cm. Shortly after that, at around 5:00pm, I jumped to 7-8cm dialated, and Jacob's heart rate began dropping during contractions. The doctor was concerned about Jacob's heart rate dropping so low, and decided to give me just a little bit longer to fully dialate. After about 30 min, I still hadn't dialated past 8cm so the doctor decided to hurry up and get Jacob out via C section. It turns out that the umbilical chord was loosely wrapped around Jacob's neck, so the doctor thinks that everytime I had a contraction, it would push Jacob towards the birth canal and tighten up on the chord, which is why his heart rate dropped. When the contractions stopped, the chord must have loosened up, allowing his heart rate to return to normal. Jacob was born at 6:36pm, weighing in at 7lbs 7.5oz, and measuring 20.5 inches long.


Here I am before the process started!



Here's Jacob in the nursery before I got to meet him! (Everyone said he looks long in this picture but I think it's just an optical illusion!)




My first time holding Jacob!

Chris picked out a beautiful bouquet of flowers for me! Good choice Chris!

Pics of my little man!

He's being camera shy...

Everyone's chance to hold little Jacob!

Grandma holding Jacob...

Aunt Whitney holding Jacob...

Uncle Chris holding Jacob...

Proud cousin Alyssa holding Jacob...

Cousins Alyssa and Blakely holding Jacob...

Jacob getting ready to leave the hospital in his "Take Home" outfit (it's a tad too big!)...

Ready to go in the carseat! He looked mad, but he actually slept the whole way home...

Outside the hospital...

Taking a nap at home!

First time in his swing...

One Month Left!

35 Weeks 5 Days

Yesterday marked exactly one month left! I had my first internal exam and everything went fine! No baby anytime soon! That's good for me... I don't want little Jacob to come before I'm finished with my finals! He can come anytime after May 5th!