Peaceful

A few pictures from our first week home

Camera is dying so some of these are a bit fuzzy. But then so were we, he he!
Hope everyone's holiday was great!

Jacob Rosell Talks!

Fussy and merry

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Auntie K and Jacob

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Nana and Jacob




Jacob 4 or 5 minutes old


Me heading to the Delivery Operating Room

Some pictures

Here are some pictures from the last few days. These were all taken with my phone so they aren't great. I forgot to bring the wire for our camera so this is all there is for now. The grandma's have some pictures also.

Cranky

The whole story of how Jacob was born

Dawn started having contractions at about 3:30am on Dec 8. She already had an appointment for a "Non-stress Test" at 10:00 at the hospital. The test confirmed that she was in labor so she was admitted and moved to her room.

At 2:00pm Dawn was dilated about 3cm. She was given her epidermal  at about 2:30.

A short time later, Dawn's blood pressure dropped and they had to give her something for that. For the rest of the night, the blood pressure would be an issue.

At 10pm, the doctor decided it was time to start pushing. Dawn pushed and pushed and pushed but the Jacob's head wouldn't drop where it needed to.

In the mean time, with Dawn's blood pressure being so low and Jacobs's heartbeat racing ever higher the doctor advised that Dawn have a C-Section to ease the drama to Jabob. That was at about midnight.

After they prepped Dawn, I went in and sat near her head and held her shoulders. They had already opened her up by then. It was pretty obvious that Dawn was in a lot of pain. Jacob's head was stuck in Dawn's pelvis and the doctor needed to reach in and squeeze his fingers in next to Jacob's head and guide it back. It hurt. A lot.

After Jacob's head was freed he decide to keep going and ended up spinning into the breech position. Yep, ass under elbows.

At 12:38 am Dec 9, Jacob Alexander's butt was born. At 12:39 the rest of Jacob was born. Both Grandmothers were here.

Dawn was in no shape for nurse Jacob right away, so I gave him his first meal as an air-breather. Since then, it has been all Dawn. I did all the other "maintenance" yesterday. Dawn changed her first diaper today. She was baptized by Jacob while doing her first diaper. What a good boy. Loves his Mommy.

Jacob is healthy and Dawn is recovering as expected!

Paparazi are always in your face

I tries to give People Magazine an exclusive but their offer wasn't good enough.

It's a boy!

Jacob Alexander was born 12-09-08@12:39am. He was 7lbs 12ozs and 21inches.

Lounging in bed

It's On!

Here is Dawn leaving for the Hospital!

And a nice graphical representation of a contraction... Doesn't look to painful to me...

Up all Night

Ok so I was up all night with contractions and by 5am they were 5 minutes apart and at 545 after I made coffee and woke up Bert they started to get farther apart, Argh! Hoping it is just a small break. We will keep updating any news.
Dawn

Nothing to see here

Move along.

Had first false alarm

No picture today, being camera shy. Had some contractions last night at 1am and 4am, but they didn't last. Poor Bert's stress level was a bit on high :-) . Mine too of course.

Baby Rosell Preview

12/5/08 Now 4 days past due date.   Doing well. Had an ultra sound and baby is aproximately 7lbs 10 oz and doing well, just being stubborn. Having a non-stress test on Monday if baby doesn't come over weekend. It just monitors heart beat for about an hour. But from what we saw today baby is certainly not stressed, just supper comfortable unlike mommy. :-)

T plus 3

No baby picture yet, maybe tomorrow.

Here is a picture of the baby's future room, instead.

Dr Visit

Going to Dr Elmer today to find out what's the hold up?! :-)

T Plus 2 Days (Don't worry I have a plan)

T Plus 1 Day (Not even born yet Baby Rosell is blogging)

Carol may be on to something with this blogging thing. Instead of emailing everyday I'm just going to post updates to the interwebs.

In a few days I'm going to try to retroactively post all the baby count down emails.

Bert, Dawn, Baby

T minus 0 Days (B-Day?)

Don't tell her shes nesting. It kind of freaks her out.