He's Here!!!

Parker Phillip Lewis was born on January 21, 2010 at 5:48pm. He weighed 7 lbs 11oz and was 20 3/4in long. He is so incredibly precious and I am definitely in love!!

I write this next part mainly for my aging memory, but you all are welcome to read it as well, lol.

The day of his birth didn't go as planned, but at least it was still a safe delivery and we had a healthy baby. We had to be at the hospital at 4:30am so that I could get my 4 hrs of antibiotics in before they started the pitocin. Well, my doctor and I forgot to discuss my recently developed allergy penicillin, so the nurses at the hospital were left with a decision to make, along with the on call doctor. They decided to give me Vancomycin, which only needed to hang for one hour, instead of four! Great! They'd be able to start my pitocin even earlier and we'd be able to meet this little guy sooner! I was so excited!!

So we started off with a delay, but with only needing an antibiotic for one hour instead of four, we'd still be earlier than scheduled. So at 6:30am they started the Vancomycin. About 20 minutes later my head started itching like crazy!! I wanted to scratch it off!! The nurse came in and I asked her if that was a side effect of the medicine and she said that I might also be allergic to that one! She said that if I could stand it, to go ahead and let it run for the full hour, or else I'd have to start all over with another antibiotic. Well, what mother wants to wait any longer to meet their baby, so I hung in there, with my fingernails, lol.

My pastor showed up not long after that, which helped to take my mind off the itching a bit, until I realized that I was pretty sure my lips were swelling and my palms had also started to itch and swell. But I didn't want to bring any of that to anyone's attention. As soon as the nurse came in to take the antibiotic down, I told her how I was feeling and she said that yes, I was indeed now also allergic to that antibiotic. Glad it didn't get any worse than it did, but at least I was in the hospital!

So, we were moving on. It was now about 8am and we were on track to start my pitocin and my dr was scheduled to be there at 10:30 to break my water. Great! Well, in walks the nurse and she tells me that it turns out that Vancomycin doesn't "cover" Group B Strep, so we now had to start all over, with another antibiotic, which needed to run for four hours! Ugghh! I was so angry and frustrated, but not as much as Phil. But I resolved myself to being at their mercy and having to do what I had to do, so off we went with yet another antibiotic, and we were all just praying that I wouldn't be allergic to that one. The nurse came in and checked on me every 5 minutes and thankfully it went smoothly and there was no allergic reaction!

My doctor actually showed up early to break my water, at 9:30am, to find out all that had gone on. She was very apologetic and said she'd be back at noon to break my water and that we'd go from there. So.......four hours of antibiotic in, pitocin started, contractions started but tolerable, and noon rolls around....no doctor, 1pm- no doctor, 2pm- no doctor, finally at 2:30pm she shows up and breaks my water. I again was frustrated, but what good is that going to do, so I got over it.

I got my epidural at 3pm and I was 6 cm. At about 4pm I started having nausea and they gave me some Zofran, but I don't think it helped too much. I spend the next 2 hrs with my eyes closed and praying that I would not throw up!! By 5pm I was 10 cm and they started getting everything all set up for delivery, while they waited for a bit of the cervix to thin out, or something like that. When instructed, I pushed 2 times and he was born!!


And he is just perfect! He doesn't have one blemish or birth mark. His hair looks to be light brown and he has blue eyes. We all think he looks a lot like Chase when he was a baby.









And boy is Chase a proud big brother! He just wants to hold Parker all the time and "pet" him, as he says. He just kisses and kisses on him and tells him how much he loves him.

Julianna doesn't want to hold him as much as Chase does, but she does want to mother him. She brings him his blanket, and if she can't find it, she'll bring him hers. She always wants him to have toys and will line up toys on the arm of my chair for him.



Here Chase is reading to Parker from the Bible. ( Andrea, this is where Chase was saying, "John and the book of Andrea." in a sing songie voice. It was cracking us up.)




Julianna picked out all her own clothes to come and see us at the hospital on Saturday. She was hilarious!!
Look at all of my sweet kids!

Flowers that the kids and Mimi brought me on Saturday, along with some balloons.

They discovered the hospital bed and how it moves up and down (and calls the nurse), and it was all over. They were entertained for a long time...while reading their Bibles.

Parker in his coming home outfit.

Ready for the car ride home. He did great and loves to be in the car. He's also taken a 3 hr nap in that seat and didn't mind, so hopefully he'll be like his siblings and not mind his car seat.

Coming up- firsts: paci and bath.