Friday, April 8, 2011

Jacob is here!!

I woke up at 5am with contractions on Thursday morning the 7th that I couldn't sleep through any longer. Around 5:30am I went to the bathroom and the contractions started getting harder. I woke Jeremy up around 5:45am he took a shower, then I did. I took my time in the shower which wasn't probably the best idea but the hot water felt so nice on my back. Once I got out I realized I needed to get going. We were all in the car (me, Jeremy and my mom) after 6am, got to the hospital at 6:35am. I literally took my clothes off, hopped into the bed and after a couple contractions my water broke, I had one more contraction after that then they had my push...I pushed three times and he was here at 6:44am. That's right people, 9 minutes after I got to the hospital.
SO CRAZY! It's still blowing my mind how quickly it all happened.
But what is really blowing my mind is that he was 9lbs 15oz!!! That is ONE OUNCE away from 10lbs!!
The girls were only 7lbs! I still can't believe I pushed out this giant baby, and only tore to a 2! I tore to a 2 with Elle and a 4 with Eva!

And now we have a son!! I wanted a mama's boy really, really badly and I'm so excited!! As soon as they put him on me I knew he was our sweet Jacob we'd been waiting for all these months, our sweet boy.

I'm still getting use to saying "him" and "he." All though since we don't find out it's always a few days adjustment for me to call out babies by anything other than baby.

His nickname is JJ. When Jeremy and I were dating he said he always thought it would be cool to have a sone named JJ because he thought it would sound good at school sporing events, "Up to bat, JJ Brower!" and a few months ago Eva brought up the name JJ and said she wanted to be called JJ for a while, then decided if we had a boy that we should name him JJ.
We decided on a "J" name, I've always loved boy names with "J" and I've loved the name Jacob for a while.

His middle names (that's right, plural, this is our only son people), are Robert after my grandpa who meant and did so much for me when I was young before he passed away and Lance after Jeremy's dad whom we both admire and look up to so much. Jacob Robert Lance Brower.

And now for some pics!



6 comments:

Stacey said...

I take it you got a hold of the laptop. :) Congrats!! We are soo excited for you and your little boy. I still can't believe that big boy was inside of you!! Boys are fun!

Justin & Ashlee said...

I love the picture of the girls with little Jacob. I hope you are doing well. If you need anything let us know. Rylee will be excited to come visit in a while....we'll give you a few weeks :)

Melody said...

9 minutes! Amazing. He is so big and sweet!

Melanie said...

Congratulations! All the wait was worth 9 minutes in the hospital- that is awesome! Way to go, Christa! And how fun that you have a boy now, too!

Unknown said...

congrats he is very cute!

Dal and Nat said...

Congrats on a new baby and it being a boy!! You are lucky you got to the hospital before he popped out! That is amazing. My biggest was 7.8 and I thought that was big. He is a big boy!! But at cutie. Congrats guys!!