Gavin Todd Jones

Our cute little baby made it here October 9th! He was born at 8:39 am in the Timp Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces, Daddy had the closest guess of 8 pounds. He was 19.5 inches, although he seemed longer than that to us. He is the cutest and so sweet.

Here is a little of the labor story. We had actually known he was going to be coming since my doctor appointment on Monday. Some people might think this is bad of us, but we scheduled with the hospital to be induced. Steve had the whole week off from school and after thinking it through and talking with the doctor, he said it would be a good idea as long as I was progressing enough. The weeks before I was only a 1 so we didn't think I would be far enough along. At the doctor appointment Monday I was measuring a 3! So they called the hospital and we just had to wait for them to call us and say they had an opening for us to come in. After the appointment we had our official last date at Panda Express before I went back to work. It was so weird thinking the rest of the day that he could be here so soon!

After work we did laundry, shopping and cleaning to be ready at any moment. I had been having pretty strong contractions that day since they stripped the membranes at the doctor office. Around 7 they got closer together and a lot stronger, but they weren't close enough to go in yet. The hospital finally called and said we could come in at six in the morning! We just had to call first and make sure they still had room for us to come in. It seemed so long away lol. The contractions kept coming though not regular yet. Around 11 I started to bleed pretty heavily so called the hospital and they said to come in and get checked out. I was getting really nervous, even though I knew it would be happening sometime soon anyway. I waited impatiently while Steve ate his cereal haha, he said he didn't know when he would get the chance to eat again (he was right).

We got to the hospital and when they checked me I was still sadly a 3. I was sure they were going to send us home, but they said they would wait an hour and see what happened. The time went by so fast once we were there. When they checked again I was a 4 and said they would just keep me since I would mostly likely be coming back in the morning anyway. They called for the epidural guy and I was very glad, contractions were getting very strong at this point. He numbed me up and then we had to sit there for about half an hour! The lab hadn't done my blood work yet so they couldn't start it yet until looking at my platelet levels. Steve asked several questions while we waited, he was very interested in how it all worked. They finally were able to get it started and it didn't hurt at all since I had been numbed so long ago. The IV was definitely worse when they started the penicillin for the Step B. It was crazy how fast it started to work, except I could still feel my left side a little. After laying on that side it got better though. They started pitocin after that and Steve slept on the couch :)

An hour or so later my water broke and I got really nervous after that. For some reason my biggest fear was that I would be too wimpy to push him out. Probably didn't help that there was a lady doing a natural birth next door and she was screaming bloody murder! I have never heard someone scream that loud before, the nurse reassured me that she was not the norm and to not be worried. She even asked if I wanted ear plugs she was that loud. We actually got lucky they kept me because five more girls came in after and they were super busy. The nurse started checking on me less and less. Finally she came in and said "Oh looks like you are ready to deliver". That woke Steve up. The nurse started to have me push while we waited for the doctor to finish a c-section. He got there pretty quickly, and after 20 minutes of pushing, Gavin was born. We had both never been happier:)