Surprise!

We got a little bit of a surprise this morning! I woke up and got ready for work and thought my belly had dropped. I felt good though. I went to work and at about 9:00am I felt a little trickle so I went into the bathroom. I called my doctors office and they scheduled me to come in and get looked at at 10:30. I was way nervous and anxious. At about 9:15 I laughed and that was it. I went in the bathroom and called again and they told me to go right up to the hospital. I called Eric and he left work to come get me. It became more and more obvious that my water had FOR SURE broken. I couldn't believe it! Lucky for me I work in a shop full of men! ha ha. My coworker was a great help to me and she has only been working there for about 3 weeks! I had not even finished training her. Oops!

They got me checked in and hooked up. They checked me about an hour later and I was a 2+. They started me on Pitocin and I progresses pretty okay. I went from a 5 to a 10 way fast. I am so thankful for my epidural! I was excited that I progressed decently and thought for sure that it would continue to go fast. Not so. Deegan changed his mind on coming early!

I pushed for almost 3 hours! Blah!! All that matters is he got he safely and is doing as well as is to be expected since he is 5 weeks early! So now onto the stuff you care about! It's 1 am so forgive me that the pics are not in the right order.


Introducing Deegan Eric Sanders!
Born November 13 (Friday the 13th)
10:32 pm
5 lbs 12 oz
18 inches long

I know it looks sad but he is doing well! He was a good cryer! He is on CPAP (I can't remember if that is what it is called) but it is a pressurized oxygen that is helping him to get the fluid and gunk out of his lungs. That thing is pushing his skin up and his hat pushes it down so the poor kid looks all scrunched!

They gave him this binki so help him keep air in. They had to cut the top off it for him. It was so cute to see him sucking it!

See his scrunched face. He kinda looks like a sumo baby. A very cute one though!

Our first family pic! We have not been able to hold him. :( maybe tomorrow.

Not the most attractive pic. He will love this when he is older! You can see his poor cone head. From the vacuum they had to use since he was taking forever and also because he was in for so long.

They took him pretty quick to start working on him. He was a good cryer and had pretty good color.

We had my doctor, my nurse, my mom, Eric, the pediatrician, the respiratory specialist and 2 NICU nurses. PARTAY!

I probably read this sign at least a million times since it was right in front of me.

My lovely foot. Thanks for this thoughful pic babe! I am sure I will laugh at it later!

So there you have it. That is the low down. They told us to plan on him being in the NICU for about a week. That makes me sad but I want to make sure he is all ready to come home! Then I can actually get things more ready since I was NOT prepared for this! I didn't even have a bag packed. Oh well! All in all we are doing great! I am feeling much better now that he is here and I have some drugs. We are so excited to be parents and to finally meet him! I will update tomorrow!

We love you Deegan!

(I am not proofreading this so hopefully it makes sense)