Unto us, a child is given. Unto us, a child is born!

And his name shall be called....

Spencer Evan Lamar

Born December 18th, 13:05
7lbs 3oz, 22 inches

Throughout my pregnancy Adam and I would occasionally joke about reverting to "self-induction"if baby decided he wanted to stay much longer than his scheduled 40 weeks. On Thursday evening I told Adam to start googling ideas. I said this more out of boredom and humor rather than seriously wanting to self-induce.

We had a good laugh about some of the suggestions we found. One tip said to sit cross legged. Making a joke out of it I sat criss-cross apple-sauce for about 20 minutes in our recliner while we read through the rest of our search.

It was getting late and I was getting tired. Finally at 11pm I told Adam I was ready for bed. We made our way upstairs, went through our bedtime routines and went to sleep. I was woken up two and a half hours later with one of the strongest contractions I had ever felt! I had three very uncomfortable contractions before I finally woke Adam up. If I was going to be awake and uncomfortable Adam might as well be too right?

I continued to have strong contractions and had Adam time them, they were consistently three minutes apart. We phoned the hospital to let them know we were on our way. We spent a few minutes gathering the rest of my hospital bag items and were at the hospital by 2:30. I was already 4 centimeters and agreed to an epidural when it was offered to me. The next few hours involved waiting, waiting to be 10 centimeters, waiting two hours for the epidural to wear off...Finally my midwife told me it was time to start pushing and 40 minutes later Spencer made his debut.

Not too bad for a first timer:)

Spencer was very patient while the midwives poked and prodded him.

Spencer and I had to stay two nights in the hospital for routine monitoring. We both passed all our tests and were able to come home Sunday evening.

During our stay at the hospital one of our friends showed up to visit and took some nice photos for us. He snapped this nice one of Adam (I think it has a "professional photo shoot" look to it) and the first black and white picture of Spencer.

We are all very happy to be home. The first night was rough and we are all sleep deprived (except for Spencer, he seems to get plenty of sleep) but with time we are getting adjusted. I know we are going to have good days and bad days but Spencer is the BEST Christmas present we could have ever asked for and we are so blessed to have him as part of our family.