Weight

Today Beckett weighs 6lb 9oz. He was weighed when the public health nurse came to the house to visit.

Beckett's Birth

Well, Beckett has arrived. He's already proving to be impatient like his mother...he was born at 36 weeks and 6 days. Mommy was supposed to work. It was the morning of July 16th, a Thursday. She didn't feel great and was having some stomach pains so Daddy took her to the hospital. She thought she might have a kidney stone or something. They went to the maternity ward and Mommy got hooked up to a monitor even though she didn't really think she was in labour. I think the monitor showed a couple of small contractions, but most importantly it showed that the baby was okay. The nurses got the obstetrician to come in to see us, and he checked us out, only to find that we were already dialated to 4 cm!!! Everyone was very surprised!! They asked us how far away we lived from the hospital and since we live so close they told us we could go home and wait if we wanted, or we could stay at the hospital. They said it could be anywhere from a few hours to a few days or weeks until the baby arrived. We went home and Mommy got a few loads of laundry done. Mommy could feel some funny sensations throughout the day, kind of like the baby was stretching in her belly, not really any pain though. By the time Daddy got home from work at 4 the tightening was happening about every 4 minutes or so. We went back to the hospital and they called the doctor again. He said he would be back in a couple of hours to check Mommy again. By the time he check again, it was 7 or 7:30pm. Mommy was 6 cm!! There was no turning back now, this baby was going to be born soon! Mommy still wasn't feeling much pain. They moved her to a birthing room (room 213) and got everything set up. Over the next few hours the contractions got more intense and closer together. At 9:30 or 10pm, the nurse checked me and I was 8 cm dialated. That's when we started using the nitrous gas for the pain. Mommy was also squeezing Daddy's hand everytime she had a contraction. He was being a great support!! Things went pretty quickly after that. She checked Mommy again at 11ish and she was 9cm, so the nurse called the doctor to come back. He came back and broke my water at around 11:30. There was a resident with him who tried to break my water first, unsuccessfully. I felt a warm gush, but no pain. Things got pretty intense pretty quickly after that. The contractions were one right after the other and I was using lots of gas to cope!! I think Daddy though I was using too much, but I couldn't tell when one contraction ended and the next began. At about midnight the doctor checked again and I was finally 10 cm - it was time to start pushing!! Pushing was not much fun. It all started really fast and it's difficult to learn how to do something so quickly!! At one point I asked the doctor how much longer and he said hopefully 10 minutes or so. I got really determined then and I think the baby was out 7 minutes later!! Altogether I pushed for about 30 minutes. Beckett was born at 12:32am on Friday, July 17th. The doctor and nurse were great!! They put the baby on my chest and the doctor said "here is your son". I was so happy we had kept the baby's sex a surprise. It was an unbelievable feeling to finally have him lying there. They took the baby over next to weigh him and check him over. He weighed 6lb 7oz and was absoluetly perfect!! I remember the doctor saying part way through the delivery that he could see lots of dark hair, and there was lots!! but it was hard to see right away what colour it would be. The docors took care of me and Daddy went over and took lots of pictures.

Our families had been at our house waiting and as soon as the baby was born Daddy called them to come over. They came in after the doctors were finished and we told them it was a boy!!

We didn't have any definite names picked out, because we though we still had 3 weeks to find one!! We narowed it town and finally the next day we named him Beckett. He still didn't have a middle name until Saturday afternoon.

We're sooo happy to have you here Beckett

Birth Weight: 6lb 7oz
July 20th discharge weight: 6lb 3oz
July 21 weight when we were re-admitted for treatment of jaundice: 6lb 5oz