Cross-posted from Ryan’s blog.
Evan came into the world at 1:58pm this afternoon. We had quite a journey getting there though!
First of all, he wasn’t really ever supposed to be here in the first place. Ten years ago, we stood in front of a screen while our doctor completed a test to see if we could have more children. After having tubal pregnancies both before and after Hannah, the doctor told us that it wouldn’t be possible. After adopting both Ellie and Julia, we found out that Evan was determined to defy the odds!
Last night, we came to the hospital to be induced. We started at about 10pm having some initial preparation medications and then this morning they started the Oxytocin to begin the contractions. A couple of hours later, they broke the water and then shortly after gave Gina the epidural. After that, they started an exam, so I walked out to go talk to the grandparents who were down in the waiting room. Suddenly, nurse Amy, who was doing the exam, appeared around the corner into the waiting room and started waving me back to the room. On the way back to the room, she told me, “Gina is 7 cm and I just shook hands with the baby!” I thought she meant that things were just moving quicker than expected, but she meant it pretty literally. Turns out that he had pushed his hand and part of his arm out and as the nurse was doing the examination, he grabbed her finger!
The lead nurse tried to push the hand back in a little bit, but he wasn’t having any of it. He actually pushed it out even further, so they called Dr. Franco to come and check it out. He decided that they needed to do a C-section right away, so they put the surgical stuff on us and out the door we went! The C-section happened within the next twenty minutes and we were seeing Evan. Awesome!
Here are a few pictures from our day today:
