Henry was born 8.17.10 at 6:52 pm, weighing in at 8 lbs 1 oz and measuring 20.5 inches. We were induced at 9am and labor went fairly quick (thank god) so we didn't have to wait long to meet the little guy. As most of you know I swore up and down that I was having a girl and I thought she'd be small and have light colored hair. Boy was I wrong (as was our doctor)!!! Waiting to find out the sex of the baby was the best decision we ever made. It was such an incredible and emotional moment the instant we saw that we had a beautiful little boy! We spent 3 days in the hospital; Henry had trouble breast feeding so we stayed an extra day. This was fine by us since we had the most amazing nurses and didn't want to leave. I tried to talk one of them into moving in with us. =) A couple of lessons we learned while in the hospital:
1. Do NOT take your baby with you out of the room! As Reggie learned, this tends to make the random nurses get very jumpy, in a "hey that guy is snatching babies" sort of way.
2. Get the drugs, ladies! While waiting for our show to get started, we overheard what we could only surmise was some sort of dinosaur giving birth based upon the yelling. Nope - just going natural!
3. The nurses are like the pimps of the hospital. They have all the hookups, and if you get on their good side, they will set you up with all kinds of good stuff. We rolled out of there with a suitcase full of diapers, wipes, etc.
