Orin Talbot Patterson

He is here!!!!

It took a while but he finally decided to grace us with his presence. For those of you who have not yet heard the stor I will attempt to summarize the key point quickly since I am on a quick trip home from the hospital to update the blog and take a shower.
Log story short...Darcy woke me up around 4:30 A.M. on Monday morning thinking that her water had broken. She wasn't sure though since there wasn't that much water. Also the fluid did have a green tinge to it so we were worried that he had already gone #2 so we called the hospital and they told us to come in.
We got to the hospital and they hooked Darcy up so that they could monitor both the Bay and her at the same time and tested the fluid to see if in fact her water had broken. That test came beack in the affirmitive. So they admitted us to the hospital. The Doctor on call decided that it would be best to allow Darcy to go into laabor by herself so he did not start any pitosin(sp). So about 6 hours later we were just chillin in the room reading Harry Potter when the nurse came in and put Darcy on her side gave her oxygen and then waited while watching the Babies heart rate. It was falling way below where it should have been so she warned us that if his heart rate did not come up a C-Section was in our immediate future.
The Doctor then came in and checked her to see if she was dialated(sp). Unfortunately nothing had changed in fact when we got there the nurse had said that she was a finger tip but the Doctor said that she was completely closed. So he decided to put her on some thing that would stop any labor to give the baby a rest but the heart rate continued to fall so we went in for an emergency C-Section.
In the end it wasn't what we planned but besides a breif stay in the NICU Baby Orin Talbot Patterson is perfectly fine and Darcy is doing well.
Mom and Dad are a little tired but besides that we don't have any complaints. I am going to poat a bunch of Photos following this post. I hope you like them.

Update!!

Still no baby. We do have an appointment with a different Doctor tommorrow morning at 9:10 AM so maybe we will know something by then. Check back sometime tommorrow so that we can feel you in with what we found out. Hopefully the Doctor will send us right to the Hospital to be induced...or maybe he will come tonight sometime, who knows...

-Shawn

No baby yet! We had an appointment this morning that told us nothing except that we have made no progress towards birth. Our Doctor is leaving on vacation this week so we have an appointment set for Monday morning with a different Doctor to set a time for inducement, if we haven't had him yet. So the first home remedy besides walking that we have tried is the Green Curry from Trader Joes. It ha only been a couple of minutes since she slurp a bunch of it down. So I guess we will be testing the advice given to us by Lynn Westbrook tonight...hopefully it will work and there will be some news in the morning. Thanks for all those who have tried to help us out with suggestions.

-Shawn

Baby and the Bottle

I am giving this a shot I hope it works. I am sure that all of you veteran bloggers could have shown me how to do this but I had to do it the hard way...

To those of you who are following the action here on the blog i will give you an update. NOTHING HAS HAPPENED! The due date has come and gone, and there were no changes. Our next Doctor appointment is on thursday, so unless he comes before then we will find out about getting induced.

-Shawn

Patterson Family

I am extremely new at this but decided that it would be the best and easiest way to post pictures of the baby whenever he decides to show up. I will try to let everyone know about this ASAP but in case I miss anyone please feel free to send this link to anyone that you think might be interested.

-Shawn