Parker Maxwell Green arrived into our lives on Monday night, June 13th at 6:33pm. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces and was 20.5 inches long (although he had a major conehead, so I'm sure he was authentically 20 inches). I'd like to consider that I had a pretty great labor for a first time mommy. I was induced and started receiving Pitocin around 8:30 in the morning and was having MAJOR contractions. We're talking off the charts. I was trying everything to relieve the pain, using the ball, walking, changing sides of laying. However, baby didn't like me laying on the left side. His heart rate would always decrease while on that side. By around 12:30 in the afternoon and at 7 cm. along, I had to have an epidural. Let me tell you, after that it was smooth sailing! Social hour in the hospital!
We were so lucky to have my parents, Joel's parents, Kell and Ben, Nan and Matt at the hospital throughout the day. Ben was a dream and loved hanging outside most of the time. He brought his Lightning McQueen suitcase full of goodies and couldn't have been better.
Once he was born and Joel and I got our bonding time with him, Joel FINALLY went out to our families and showed a black and orange Giants sweatshirt (representing that it was a boy!) We had a pink one just in case it was a girl. We couldn't be more blessed than with this bundle of sweetness.
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| skin to skin bonding |
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| Papa (LG) and Grandpa (Doug) |
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| Mr. Alert |
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| Amazing Daddy |
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