Cooper Jameson Maddern

Cooper Jameson Maddern was born yesterday (Tuesday) at 3:23pm. We came to the hospital at 8am to try an external version because he was breech. A version is where the doctor manipulates the outside of your belly to try to turn the baby so his head is down for birth. They won't deliver baby's naturally when they are breech. So the version was our option to try to avoid a c-section.

We were so lucky to have had a successful version!! It doesn't happen much... even the nurses were excited about it. So, they started pitocin right after and broke my water to induce labor so he would hopefully not turn back around.

I labored until around 2:30, when I decided the contractions were coming on too fast and strong... so I reluctantly took an epidural. Immediately after administering the epidural, I was having really strong contractions that weren't succumbing to the meds. The nurse checked how dilated I was and I was ready to push already. It took about 10 minutes of pushing and he was out! Born at 3:23 pm.

He is 20 inches, 8 pounds 1 oz, and came out with a bruised face! But he's cute as can be, of course! He didn't cry when he came out (which worried us), but he's just fine and has since cried just once when he was hungry last night!! He has little whimpers and monkey noises, but he's so quiet and content.

We will be going home on Thursday morning, most likely. I'll take advantage of Kami's Grandparents taking her for a couple days and the nursery taking the baby at night so we can get some sleep!