Andrew and Katie: April 2011

Grayson Andrew has finally arrived. Right at 37 weeks my water broke and into the hospital we went. Tuesday morning my water broke at home around 930. I headed to the hospital and told Drew it was time for him to travel that way. I arrived at the hospital and they got me checked in and into a room. I wasn't having contractions so they started Pitocin and shortly after that the contractions started coming. Around 330 my water broke again and the contractions got extremely intense. By 4pm I was asking for an epidural with tears in my eyes. I don't think Drew could have taken anymore than those 30 mins of me in pain. I could tell he was trying not to freak out. The epidural was totally worth it and not as bad as I thought. It was totally weird being numb and not being able to move my legs.

Around 10pm I was running a low grade fever and not progressing fast enough. They throw out the word c-section and I wasn't all that happy but they had good reasons to head that way. So at 1218am on April 13th, 2011 Grayson was delivered by C-Section weighing in at 7lb 14oz and 22 inches long. Drew really surprised me watching the procedure. He says he thinks he can handle needles now after watching that. He even watched as they drew blood from Grayson afterwards while Grayson slept though it.

Grayson is an amazing baby. He is so good and calm for the most part. When he screams, though, you know he has a great set of lungs.

Grayson already has many admires including mommy and daddy. He had many visitors in the hospital and everyone just couldn't say enough how beautiful and awesome he is.