The Events of Christmas Day 2008!

Christmas morning started a little later than normal this year.  "Later" meaning that we had to wake both Tanner and Jake up at 9 AM to get the party started!  We couldn't believe that they both had slept in that long, but no one was complaining and no one else was waking up either!  I think they were just so excited from all the Christmas happenings that had been going on and were exhausted!  

I guess this is my last pregnant picture because after this I started to have contractions. (disregard whatever is on my shirt....I obviously didn't know it was there because I couldn't even see it!) I had been having them the last two weeks, but of course nothing regular enough.  I started to have contractions while we were opening presents but still nothing completely regular and consistent enough for me to really think that I was finally going to have this baby!  I guess I really want to make sure that the contractions are the real deal, because when I had Tanner they sent me home from the hospital and that was the worst....so I never want to be sent home from the hospital again! It is so depressing! I would rather go knowing that I wasn't going to have to come home and still be pregnant!  So after we finished doing our Christmas morning thing, I showered and got ready and tried to continue with what was planned for the day.  But the contractions were getting closer together and so I decided I better start timing them!  Finally I told Doug that we better go because they were coming every 4 minutes pretty hard.  

I got checked in around 4:30pm and the nurse told me that I was at an 8!  I could not believe it!  This baby was coming fast!  And they were definitely not sending me home!  I had my epidural by 5:15pm. About 20 minutes later while I was talking to my mom on the phone my water broke and by 6:15 I was ready to push this baby out.  The only problem was that my doctor still wasn't there yet!  With every contraction I could feel Mikey moving further and further down.  And by the time she got there I was pretty much sitting on his head....well, I was sitting on his head.  She walked in and within three minutes or less he was out!  The cord was wrapped around his neck THREE times!  So he was a little bruised because she had to keep him from coming so fast so that she could get the cord off of him.  And at 6:36pm little Michael Jon officially joined our family!  

It seriously was the most pleasant and fastest delivery that I have ever had.  And all three of mine have been completely different!  The minute he came out he just layed on me and didn't make a peep.  He was so content and just snuggled for like 10 minutes!  It was so sweet.  He looks a TON like Doug.  I mean, I thought that Tanner looked like Doug, but Mikey might even have Tanner beat on this one!  

The volunteers at the hospital crochet these little beanies for the babies.  Since Mikey was born Christmas Day he got a Teddy Bear, a "Baby's first Christmas ornament, a stocking, a beanie, and a Christmas Carol played over the intercom just for him!  

This was Doug's type of delivery.  Fast!  If anyone knows Doug, you know that he is always trying to make things easy, low stress, fun, and fast. These were his exact words on more than one occassion the last couple of weeks before I had Mikey, "I just know this baby is going to be the best and easiest delivery and recovery you have ever had!".  And he was right!  Michael was the best Christmas present we could have asked for!