Roran Daniel is here!!!

So we have been pretty busy the past couple of months. Roran Daniel was born on July 11th at 5:52pm. He weighed in at 8lbs, 2oz and was 21in long. His noggin was 13.5in around.

Jessica did an awesome job in delivering him. Here is the short version of what happened that day.

Jess started having contractions Friday after her doc visit in which she was told that she was dilated to a 3 and 80% effaced. Me being a good husband didn't really know what that meant, but I did know that her doc put her on immediate bed rest. Because of my AWESOME job, I had to finish training the class I was giving and wait till about 5pm to start heading home. Fun.

Anyway, we spent the rest of the evening finishing up stuff that we thought we would have had a couple of weeks to complete. Once that was done, it was off to bed...for a couple of hours. Jess woke up about 3am with contractions. At about 3:15am, she woke me up and said that her water had broken and her contractions were getting stronger. We started timing them and there wasn't much in the way of consistency with them. They were anywhere from 30 secs to 90 secs long and about 1-6mins apart. After about an hour we called the doc and they said to come in.

Once we got to the hospital we were in triage and were told that she was still at 3cm, but about 95% effaced (I now knew what that meant). After some tests and some stronger contractions, we were moved to our room where we would stay for the next 2 days. The labor was pretty hard on Jess. She passed out a couple of times (not good and very scary) and was throwing up during her contractions and in between. At 8am the doc cam in and said that she was at 5cm and an epidural could be given. By 8:45am that was complete and Jess was doing a lot better. The negative side of this is that the epidural stretched out the labor, but Jess was in a lot better condition for it.

Then at 5:52, Roran Daniel appeared officially. He was beautiful. I had no desire to watch the birth, but somehow I couldn't stop myself. It was amazing, so much so that this is all I am going to say about it because words cannot describe what it is like to see a new life come into this world.

For the rest of the day we had some family stop by and visit, but it was mostly just Jess and I trying to relax and get used to the new little bundle we had now. Whoever said that they don't believe in love at first sight has obviously never had a child. There is nothing that either of us wouldn't do for Roran. He makes my family complete.

My only regret is that my mother will never meet him in person.

One quick side note, then I'm done for today (I have to go hang with the little guy and the wife), I couldn't have done any of this without the support of our family and friends. A special thank you goes to Harmony for being my backup and being an all around great person.

Signing off for now, have fun!