Shawn's Story

Shawn has been here for 10 days already! I can not believe it! I just wanted to share Shawn's story of coming into the world:

On Thursday April 1, I woke up at 4:40 in the morning to go to the bathroom (one of the many trips during the night). I noticed that my garments were wet. I thought maybe I had peed my pants, but soon realized it was not urine. I woke up Charlie and told him I thought my water broke. We decided to wait a little bit to make sure because I didn't want to go to the hospital to just come home. Around 5 o'clock we called Charlie's mom and they thought it was an April Fools joke. We let them know that if it was then we wouldn't have called at 5, that was just mean! We packed our bags and I took a shower and headed to the hospital. Here is how the rest of the day went:

6:45 am - checked into the hospital
8:00 am - admitted into labor and delivery
1:00 pm - I was given Pitocin because I wasn't really having any contractions
4:30 pm - Epidural Time!!!
9:45 pm - time to start pushing
12:00 am - epidural started to wear off so I was given more
1:01 am - Baby Shawn Michael Jones was born!!!

We thought all day that we would have an April Fools baby but it was his joke on us to wait until 1 o'clock in the morning! Pushing for over 3 hours was very exhausting for me but I had wonderful support who got me through it!

Shawn is perfect and we love him so much! He makes the funniest faces which make Charlie and I laugh everyday!