He's here!!

Jaxson Daryl Herchenbach entered the world on Friday night, November 4th at 11:36 pm.  He weighed 7 lbs 3 ozs and was 20" long. 

 The boys meeting Jaxson for the first time.  They are pretty proud big brothers.

Kellen with Jaxson.  He keeps saying 'he's a nice baby'.

 Tyson & Jaxson.   He sure is helpful with Jaxson.

Cooper & Jaxson.  Cooper's excited to be a big brother.

A rare sight...Jaxson doesn't have his eyes open much yet.

This is usually what he's doing.

At a doctor's appointment on Wednesday,  I found out that Jaxson had flipped around and was head up.  Not the news I was expecting.  So I started mentally preparing for a c-section and actually scheduled one for next week.  My doctor told me about some things I could try to get him to flip back around, but that she had only seen it work once.  You place your hips higher than your head and place ice at the top of your stomach and music/warmth at the bottom of your stomach.  You can do this two times a day for 20 minutes. Well I thought it was worth trying, but was pretty skeptical.  I tried it twice on Thursday, and I didn't sleep well that night so I didn't do it on Friday.  Well later Friday afternoon I thought I might be feeling contractions but I didn't know for sure.  Well by about 6 I thought I'd better call the hospital since I knew I would need a c-section if I was actually in labor and they said to head on over.  We got to the hospital by about 8pm, and found out i was in fact in labor and was already dilated to about a 7.  He had also flipped again and was head down now.  I got an epidural that actually worked this time.  I pushed for about an hour and then he decided to finally come out. 

We came home on Sunday afternoon and have just been readjusting to life after baby since then.  The boys are all really good helpers and are always wanting to hold him.  Today Sue took Kellen & Cooper (& Tyson after school) so I could get some rest and get some things done.  I was surprised how much I could get done with everyone gone.