Damon Michael Boam---- born Friday September 21. 9 lbs. 4 oz. 20 inches long
Our baby boy is finally here!! After being dilated to a 5 for 2 weeks and a 4 for a week before that, and having my membranes stripped twice, lets just say we were more than ready! :) Last Thursday Mike had to work so i spent the night just bumming around. I went to take Mike dinner for his break around 9:15 and felt just fine. I came back home and was just finishing my book when i thought i felt a contraction. This was around 10:30. I felt another one about 10 minutes later and they kept coming pretty consistently after that. Mike had another break at 11, so i called and told him to come home. We tried going for a walk, and i got in the bathtub, but they kept coming faster and stronger so we headed up to the hospital. We got there around 12:30 and i was dilated to a 6. Luckily they were able to give me an epidural stat! Good thing because i'm pretty sure i would have died without it ;). At 2:30 I was dilated to a 10 and the nurse said they would normally let me rest for an hour before i started pushing, but she was off at 3:00 so she was just going to tell the new nurse to have me start pushing when she got there. She came back in the room at 2:45 and said she decided to just have me start now and get the baby here before she was off. I wasn't sure if she was serious or not because they had said it was normal to have to push anywhere from 1-3 hours. But they had me start and he was born at 3:00 am on the dot. Pretty quick labor! I think that made it totally worth the 3 weeks of waiting and thinking it could be any time. We are absolutely loving having him here even though we don't really know what we are doing. So far he is a very content baby, and sleeps great at night. Lets just hope it lasts!!
