Cooper Finn Thesing

At last we have a new baby boy! That’s right Cooper Finn Thesing finally made his appearance on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at 10:36am. He weighed in at a big 9 pounds 2 ounces and 20 inches long. He is doing well and is too cute! But hey I grew him so I can say that.

It is so nice to have him home and out of my belly. What a relief to have room to breath and one day see my feet again, hopefully sooner rather than later. I was also excited to of had a natural birth, with no need for an induction, this boy came all on his own. Here is the story of how his birth day went.

At about 2 am, I’m really not sure I could not see a clock, I had to pee and when I came back to bed I noticed that I was having some contractions and they were stronger than usual. So after about five I decided to get up and walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes to make sure they would stick around. I really wanted to have this baby. By 3:45 or 4 am I was convinced that we were going to the hospital today to have this baby. I set about getting things ready for the kids and cleaning up around the house. I did not want to go too early incase they decided that I was not ready to have said baby and then be sent home. At about 6 am we put the kids in the car and made our way to Ben’s sisters’ house, where they would hang out until baby arrived. We were at the hospital around 6:45 am and went to triage to be checked and see if we could stay. I passed the first test and was admitted to the hospital. I was contracting fairly regularly, and I say it that way because I was lying down and my contractions seemed to be stronger and closer if I was moving, so while we were waiting on the room and antibiotics to be made, Ben and I walked up and down the hall. I just had to stop and pause while I waited for my contractions to pass. At about 8:15 am we made our way back to the room and I was hooked up to the machines to monitor baby and get my IV. Oh what fun! At about 8:45 am the doctor came in and broke my water. By 9:15 am my contractions finally started coming stronger and a little closer but not too close. At 10:15 am I was feeling the pressure, literally, I was not quite far enough along to push the baby out, and let me tell you trying to hold a baby in is no fun, but by 10:30 am I told the nurse to get the doctor or she was going to have to catch the baby herself. Once they had the squat bar in place up I went and two pushes later, out came our new baby boy. He probably would have been out in one push had I gotten a decent breath but that did not happen. In the span of about a minute and half, we went from a family of four to a family of five. I asked what the baby was then looked down; novel idea I know, and found out that we had a big healthy baby boy.

We are all very excited to share him with each of you and hope that you will be able to stop by soon or send an e-mail. I hope you enjoy his pictures I’m sure there will be more soon, because if you know me I’m never one to miss a photo opportunity. We are all home now and doing well. Isabelle and Barrett are very excited about their new sibling and seem to really like him. They always want to give him some kisses and see what he is doing. Isabelle is going to be a big helper, she already is telling me what to do and when. I think Bear will be excited to play with Cooper once he is a little bit bigger not to say that, that will stop him now. Until then we’ll just have to really watch Bear, but I think he will do great!