New Baby!

As many of you may know, Rebecca's due date was April 7. For those of you who know Rebecca, you will agree that she is a person who likes to be ON TIME. This baby was no exception. She gave birth at 2:44 pm on April 7 to a 7 lb 4 oz boy.

Levi Wade Jones

We had an appointment with our OB on Monday, April 6 and he told her that things were "favorable" for induction the next day if she were interested. Jacob was an induced birth and everything went so smoothly that we felt good about doing the same thing this time. The only problem was that when we talked to someone about scheduling the induction, we found out that things were really busy and we might not get in Tuesday. We were told to call the Labor and Delivery area at 5 am on Tuesday and see if there was an opening. We expected not to have a spot available when we called in the morning, but were pleasantly surprised when we were told to come in.

Luckily we have several very nice friends that Jacob likes to play with because we do not have family in the area. One of Brad's co-workers has a girl Jacob's age and they were kind enough to let Jacob stay the day with them. (Thanks guys!) We got to the hospital, went through some paperwork (probably more than you would think for being "pre-registered"), and were brought back to delivery room 12. Rebecca remembered immediately when we were told 12 that this was the room we were in with Jacob when he was born (she is sort of odd/very talented with remembering numbers years later). Actually, this was one of the nicer rooms with lots of windows, so we were very happy to be there again. And again, since everything went so well with Jacob's birth, we thought that it would be great to just keep everything the same.

This is us happy to be back in our lucky room 12.

This is a picture of Rebecca looking stunningly gorgeous in a hospital gown.

At 8:34, the pitocin began to roll.

At 10:30, she was given her epidural. Thanks Mr. CRNA guy that I don't remember your name. (Rebecca says it was Eli Murphy.)

Hey, no hard feelings about kicking me out of the room. You did your job well.

Right after that her OB came by and broke her water.

Things got a little more complicated as the baby's heart rate began to drop down during the contractions and we got a little worried, but the pitocin was turned off and she continued to labor well on her own and the baby did better.

At 2:44, our little son was born and he has been doing well. Rebecca seems to be recovering very quickly and so far is feeling better faster than when Jacob was born, which is good because I'm sure she will need all the energy she can get to to deal with twice the number of little boys on a daily basis as she has grown accustomed to.

Thanks to all those who have helped us out. It is very nice to have good friends to help out when family is not around.