We Are Home

Baby Sterling has officially arrived at home. Everything went great with the labor and he is doing awesome.

We arrived at the Hospital around 11:3o PM on Thursday night to fill out paper work. When we arrived we were told that we had no paper work to fill out and that we had to wait in the lobby until midnight, but that they were very busy and it may be a little bit longer. Well we had to wait in the lobby until 1 AM before they let us up to our room. That wasn't fun.

Once we arrived to our room they made Leslie have an I.V. before they would induce with the Pitocin drip. The I.V. took about half an hour and they hooked her up to the Pitocin about 2 AM. We were actually able to sleep a little bit and we dozed off between 2:30 and 6:30. We probably only got about an hour and a half to two hours of sleep though.

The Dr. came in about 8 AM to break Leslie's water and pretty much the second she broke the water Leslie started to have very painful contractions. Within 15 minutes Leslie had the Epidural and was loving life. She was at 5 or 6 cm when they broke her water. Around 11:30 the nurse came in to check on Leslie and told us she was 9 cm and that she would start pushing at 10cm. About 20 mins later Leslie said she felt some pressure and we called the nurse in to check and sure enough Leslie was 10 cm.

We started pushing a few minutes after noon and at 12:44 PM Sterling was born. He weighed 7 pounds 13 oz and was 21 inches long.

This was Leslie minutes after labor. She looks incredible!

As you can see Baby Sterling had not been cleaned yet so at this point I walked him down to the nursery so they could clean him off and Leslie and I prepared to move from our birth room to the room we would be staying in for the next couple of days.

Of course Sterling's going home outfit was one of his one hundred UT outfits.



This was Sterling when I told him UT wasn't going to be a very good Football Team this year. He got a little upset.

Car Ride Home

I am sure there will be many more pictures to come. We have to go to the Dr. for a follow up on Tuesday and I will be going back to work on Wednesday. Hopefully we will be able to get some sleep tonight, but I doubt it.