Emma is now a week old and doing great! Her face and head have healed almost completely from the forceps bruising she had at birth. Now mommy and daddy are learning to adjust to little Emma's schedule! Click on the picture to see more of her since we have been home.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Emma enters the world!
Click the picture to see more from Emma's first few days of life at the hospital.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Hello Emma Jean!
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As many of you know, Colleen and I became pregnant on the wonderful honeymoon I last blogged about. Just about 9 months later, our lives have taken the next step and a drastic change with the arrival of our first child: Emma Jean. Emma was born Friday the 13th of March, 2009 and we couldn't be more happy than we are right now!
The actual delivery was quite the adventure. Colleen and I went to the hospital Thursday night to begin the inducing process and just minutes short of 24 hours later, our little miss Emma was born! The unfortunate part is Colleen started the pushing process around 5:20pm Friday and kept going for two and half hours! It turns out that Emma was sunny-side up or facing upward instead of the preferred face downward which makes it very difficult to get the baby's head into the correct position for delivery. The typical resolution for this predicament is to use forceps to turn the head into the proper position which is what the doctor did after it was obvious (2 hours later) that Colleen was completely worn out and Emma was not going to come out on her own.
This is where the story get interesting. The doctor puts the forceps in place (which looked about as painful as anything I have ever seen) to move her little head and steps back to make sure everything looks right when he tripped over the chair, lost his balance and began falling backward. Since the delivery was a non-standard, many nurses were in the room to assist in case of emergency. Two of those nurses stepped forward to try to catch him with one catching an elbow or forearm in the face! Our doctor is a pretty big guy, so I can only imagine the force with which he hit her, but it gave her a bloody nose and made her very woozy. So woozy in fact, that two of the nurses who were in the room had to escort the poor woman to the ER to get checked out. Meanwhile, the doctor fell all the way to his back along with another nurse who was trying to help keep him up. SO, now we have forceps sticking out of Colleen, our doctor and nurse on the floor and another nurse in need of her own medical attention!
After the madness settled, Doc got up, changed scrubs and gloves and got right back to Colleen. I think she got a little bit of a boost from the adrenaline from watching this whole scene unfold before her, and she was able to push in unison with Doc pulling the forceps well enough for Emma Jean to be born into this world at 7:53pm CST. She weighed in at 8 pounds, 11.8 ounces and 20.5 inches in length. As you can see in the pictures, she was born with a full head of dark brown hair which is just beautiful! We are both very proud parents and both set of grandparents are very proud as well!
I will continue to post updates and pictures of our little Angel as time allows and we look forward to introducing her to all of our family and friends!
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