Soul to Soul: May 2010

So I am a little late in posting this and therefore will title it March 25, 2010 for that is the date that we welcomed our second little boy into this world!

Weighing in at 8#11oz 21 inches long...born at 1457...Introducing Edwin Blake Stevenson...

After nine glorius months of pregnancy we set our induction date and headed to the hospital bright and early that thursday morning. We were scheduled to be there at 5:30 am and well with a little man(Troy) awake at that time it was a little harder to leave him knowing that what we were to do would change his world...to the rest of us for the better...but to him he is still trying to figure it out. So we arrived at the hospital @ 5:40...oops but they still took us! Our nurse Nikki took us to our room...red carpet rolled out and everything for the big day!

After being admitted..they started the pitocin @ 6:30...broke my water about 8:30...epidural around 1100...baby @ 1457. It went really smooth...so smooth that I am now a fan of inductions not sure I was a fan of my last induction(32 hrs from start to finish) but this one all but made up for it! and the prize at the end is a most beautiful baby boy!

Not sure you can really tell in this picture but he did have some facial bruising from his quick trip through the birth canal and the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck twice so he was a little pale from the get go but all in all a healthy happy boy! We feel very blessed to have him in our family!

Here are some random pics of the delivery...hope my friends don't mind!

momma's nurse Nikki! and baby nurse Carlie!...Edwin waiting to cut the umbilical cord...which he ended up doing before they delivered the body because of it being wrapped around his neck...The lovely Dr Dickens with Edwin... thanks for the great delivery!...Big Boy...Mommy, Daddy and Blake!

Relieved to have the delivery over with I was now looking forward to having Troy come and meet his brother. Edwin went home and checked on him but as he did not have a nap that day and had been up since the early early morning he crashed when Edwin got home so he came the following day to meet his new lil brother...

not sure he knew what to think...but as time went on he warmed up to the idea of a little brother...at least at the hospital it was a great idea!

During our hospital stay we had a surprise visit from grandma and grandpa!

They just couldn't wait to get a glimpse of grandbaby number 40! It was so fun to have them stop in...even if it was only for a couple hours it meant a lot to us. We also got a little visit from aunt Jan just hours after his birth but I didn't get a pic...sorry Jan...thx for stopping by before flyin home!

So our hospital stay comes to an end and a new beginning with 2 little boys starts and this is what we looked like as we jumped into our new journey...

Soul to Soul

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Past seven weeks

March 25, 2010