Cooper is born!!!

Cooper James Johnson was born on October 3rd, 2009. He came into this world at 10:13pm, weighing in at 6lbs, 14oz. He was 20.5 inches long.



He is an adorable baby, but then again, I'm pretty biased! Here is a link to some photos: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=112154&id=563493308&l=4f1ec9ef50



The induction process took a long time yesterday, we started at 7am, arriving at the hospital and starting the monitoring of baby before the pitocin could start.



Once the pitocin started, we were progressing slowly and so the doctor decided to break my water at 11:55am.



I was finally ready to start pushing at 7:40 and we (Tim, my wonderful nurse Melissa & doctor) pushed until just about 9:30 pm when Cooper's heart rate started dropping. They had me take an oxygen mask and this got his heart rate up, this happened 3 times, and finally we weren't progressing enough and the doctor decided she didn't want his heart rate dropping anymore. So at 10, we start the vaccuum delivery process. I pushed 3 more times and my baby boy was born!



We didn't move from the labor/delivery/recovery room until almost 2am. When we finally got our room service delivered and got Cooper fed one last time, it was 4am before we got to bed. We were at 22.5 hours without sleep. I'm not sure how I ever stayed up such long hours when I was a kid. Crazy!



We had many visitors yesterday and today. Many people love this young man, and we are thankful to have such great friends and family! God is good!!



We still haven't gotten much sleep, only about 3 hours since yesterday morning at 5:30, so we hope tonight will be much much better and that we get some good rest. We should be going home on Tuesday morning bright and early.

38 weeks

Week 38!

We go into the hospital on Saturday to start the induction process – that is if the little one hasn’t arrived by then on his own!
This week has progressed pretty slowly for me; I guess because it’s like waiting for Christmas day as a kid, time goes so slowly up to the big event.
We accomplished quite a bit around the house last weekend. Lots of grocery shopping and getting things ready for Cooper to come home with us. We did some cooking to put things in the freezer so that we’d be ready for his arrival.
Tuesday, I went to the doctor and found out that I was 3 cm dilated and 70% effaced, so I do not have to go to the hospital on Friday night as originally planned. My body has naturally taken care of the cervix preparation that would have happened on Friday night. I am to arrive at the hospital by 7 a.m. on Saturday!
The rest of this week was busy at work getting ready for being gone for 12 weeks – also getting the month end process completed – that is always a fun process.
I am ready, SO ready for him to be here. I am hoping and praying for an easy labor and delivery, I have nothing to compare this to – only words and advice from other mothers. I cannot wait to meet our baby boy. Tim cannot wait either. My emotions are in high gear, I am so excited and nervous about being a good mommy. I just want everything to be ok for Cooper. I want him to have a good life and I hope that I can provide that for him.
Cooper James – you are so loved already – I cannot wait for you to arrive and meet so many people who love and care about you! I hope someday you know how lucky you are to have such a great group of people, family and friends who care about you and love you!