On the day that you were born. . . .

before

Welcome to the world Calvin Piers Tyler! Here is what happened- the story is pretty quick so don't blink! We checked into Seton Main hospital about 8AM. We got settled into the labor and delivery room. There was an admin nurse that went over a bunch of questions with us. There was a training nurse and her instructor that gave me an IV port. Dr. Gooch came in about 9AM and broke my water, started a pitocin drip about 15 minutes later. About 9:30AM I started having regular contractions. About 10AM I asked for an epidural. About 10:10AM the nurse came in to check on us and to get the epidural started. This is when things got interesting. She checked me and then said she would be right back. She came back into the room about 10:15AM and much to my dismay informed me there was no time left to give me an epidural because I was already at 10cm. The look on my face must have been priceless followed up with "chris- whatthefuckamigoingtodo ican'tdothiswithoutanepidural!".
I only had about 3 minutes to panic because the next contraction I had was a pushing contraction she told me not to fight it- to go with the flow. 3 minutes later the head nurse in charge was in the room telling me not to push and at the same time telling Dr. Gooch that if she was going to deliver this baby that she better run, Calvin's head was already out. The nurse in training was in the corner of the room looking like a deer caught in headlights (probably similar to my look when I found out there would be no epidural). My doc got into the room just in time to catch the rest of Calvin. His official birth time is 10:25AM. The lady next door to me asked for an epidural at exactly 10:25:01AM. The first piece of info we got was the baby was a boy. The second piece of info we got was that he weighs 9 pounds 5 ounces. The third piece of info we got was that he was healthy with all of his limbs, 10 fingers and 10 toes. The rest of the info I got is TMI but let's just say, Calvin is a big baby that came out very fast. . ..

The rest of the day was spent recovering and staring endlessly at our handsome baby boy. My parents brought Maria to the hospital later on in the day. She was very interested in meeting Calvin for the first time. She was very sweet and gentle with him.

my parents, maria and chris went to eat dinner at waterloo ice house and brought back my free chocolate shake! this my new favorite picture of chris and maria.

The first night with Calvin was about as smooth as it can be with a newborn. Between him being checked out, me being checked out, him needing to be fed and nurses dropping in, there wasn't much sleeping going on.

this is chris changing one of the 6 poop diapers that calvin made on the first day.

I can't help but feel blessed- somewhere, sometime in my life I made some kind of good karmic choice so I that ended up with 2 sweet, beautiful healthy children- at least for the time being....