Welcome Kason!!!

What a surprise! Saturday morning I woke up at about 6:00 and was having different pains I had never had before. They were not too bad so I went back to sleep until about 8:30. When I woke up then they were worse, so after calling my advisers (mom & Tracey) I got up and started doing the normal routine. It only took about 1/2 hour and I had three contractions. Nothing major just a little pain but nothing that I would normally worry about. I decided to call the doctor and they told me to go to the hospital and be checked out. Now, I have never gone into labor before so I had no idea what was going on, besides the fact I was scheduled for a c-section on the 18th. I decided if this was going to happen today that I needed to clean up my house. I recruited the boys to help me. We cleaned, packed a bag for me just in case and showered all of us. I took the boys over to Tracey's about 12:30 and headed for the hospital. I left my bag at home thinking they were just going to tell me to go home and relax. I called Randy at work just to let him know what was going on but told him not to worry about coming to the hospital and I would call him if I needed him. Well to my surprise after about 1/2 being at the hospital the nurse came in and said they are going to be doing a c-section at 4:00. WHAT!! WHAT!! I DON'T EVEN HAVE MY BAG, CAMERA AND MY HUSBANDS NOT HERE! I get on the phone and after 5 minutes of convincing Randy that I wasn't joking he was on his way from work. By the time I made the call to Tracey and my mom they nurse had come back in. The news this time was Dr. Turner didn't want to wait until then with it being my 4th c-section and I was having so many contractions. They moved up the time to 2:30 or 3:00 as soon as they could prep me for surgery. This was only about an hour away! Randy shows up in his work clothes all dirty from trimming all day and has to put on his scrubs right away. David gets there shortly after Randy with Joe and Tracey's video camera!!( Thanks Dave) Then we were off to have a baby 2 and 1/2 weeks early! Kason was born at 3:16pm! He was perfect! I guess he wanted to finish us off with a bang! I have never gone into labor with any of the others and although I have always hoped all of them would come early they never did. Kason definitely wanted to be different. He weighed 5lbs 7 oz and 18 inches long. Our smallest by far! Well because he was so small the nurses said that he had some issues with keeping his blood sugar up. He was admitted to the NICU Sunday morning at about 2:00. They had to put an IV in him to give him sugar water. They then had to check his blood sugar before he ate each time. After being on the IV for 24 hours he was well enough to stop the IV. I went down every three hours to feed and hold him. It was heartbreaking for me and I just wanted to take him home. Well, I got my wish and we were both discharged Tuesday morning!! He is doing wonderful now! We went to the doctor yesterday and he has gained another ounce since we left the hospital on Tuesday and she says he looks great. What a joy it is to have him here. It is amazing that it doesn't matter how many kids you have you love them all the same. You are as excited to have the 4th just as much as you were to have your 1st. Here is a slide show I made with the pictures I have thus far. Cameron is in California until Sunday so we are missing one more boy!

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