Welcome Luke!

 Monday, May 23, 2011 turned out to be the day we went from a family of three to a family of four.  We had a repeat c-section scheduled for the 24th, but I woke up with signs of labor at about 4 am on the 23rd.  Our friend Debbie was kind enough to come sleep on our couch with Miri.  Yaya was scheduled to come later in the day.  After much testing and checking of everything, the doctors determined that I was having false labor (ie, all of the pain with none of the gain).  After an unsuccessful attempt to stop the contractions, they determined that it would be best to go ahead with the c-section on Monday rather than waiting until Tuesday.  We got the OR booked for noon and tried to rest a little.

 

 

 We had a scary couple of minutes after I had my spinal block; Luke's heartbeat dropped very low. The doctors moved very quickly and had him out in less than 5 minutes.; Dustin almost missed it because they were moving so fast!  Fortunately, he got there just in time to greet the little man, who turned out to be just fine.  Luke was born at 12:57 pm; 8 lb 4 oz and 20.25 inches.

 He calmed down quickly after the docs checked him out and we got a few minutes to cuddle before he was taken to the NICU for a bit of observation (standard OP for C-section babies).

 Miri came up later in the day to meet her little brother.  She wasn't too sure about this noisy little stranger at first.

 Our first family portrait.

 Yaya brought Miri up again on Tuesday.  Miri still wasn't sure about being a big sister, but she had a lot of fun carrying her purse and some keys around the hospital room.