It's a Boy!!!

We were both expecting Jr to show up past his due date so imagine our surprise when I went into labor Wednesday morning, 10 days early. The contractions started coming regularly around 6 am and by 4 pm they were close enough that my Dr. sent me to the hospital. From 6 am to about 9 pm my contractions got worse but I had only progressed 1/2 centimeter. To speed things up my Dr. put me on pitossin. For anyone who doesn't know pitossin = horrible unimaginable pain. Fortunately they gave me wonderful pain killers to take the edge off. A few hours later they finally gave me the epidural and 1 1/2 hours later I was fully dilated. At this point it was 3:30 am, Chris was delirious due to lack of sleep, I was loopy from all the pain killers given earlier, the Dr. and nurse both had a great sense of humor and kept joking with us so the whole birth turned into a laughing fest. I basically laughed the baby out. At one point they had to calm me down and get me to stop laughing because it was pushing the baby out and the Dr wasn't ready. 4:30 am on 8.21.08 Cordon Wendell Thompson was born. He is 19 1/2 inches long and 7 lbs 6 oz's. He is very healthy and mellow and we are so excited he is finally here.