Gavin's Here!

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Gavin's here, all 9 lbs. and 12.4 oz. of'em! Laura and him are quite the team. Yesterday, we went to Laura's 40 week appointment in semi-low spirits about going over the due date, but Dr. Radke noted that Gavin was lower and Laura was at 4cm infusing some hope in us for the afternoon. Dr. Radke said we could go into the hospital if Laura experienced contractions that were 5 minutes for at least an hour.

After Ava's nap, Laura wanted to go to Sam's Club, saying she wanted to "walk up and down every single aisle" to get the boy down'n'out. At about 4:15pm, Laura started to experience some pretty good contractions at a regular 5 minutes apart. We started to time them, and after we got home from SC (about 5pm), we decided to pack up and head in.

My parents were already on their way to our apt., so as soon as they got there, we went to Meritcare.

Laura notified her parents and her sister, and we're happy to report that Carol, Renae and Ashton made the trip! While they were traveling across MN, we were in the triage at about 6:20pm.

They monitored Laura for about 45 minutes, and admitted us at about 7pm. The nurse checked Laura, and she was at about 5cm at this time. For the next hour and 45 minutes, the contractions grew rather rapidly into the transition period. Before anyone realized it, Laura was told to push.

Laura's pushing was amazing, as the bag of waters came out most of the way without bursting. The Dr. punctured it just before Gavin crowned, and at 9:13pm, just short of a 5 hour labor (!!), Gavin was born.

I'm going to leave some space for Laura to fill-in for the birthing story, but in short, she was amazing and the Meritcare staff were amazed by her.

Hmmm, I suppose this new addition means I may have to do a blog makeover. ;-)

More to come.