Where to begin...This blog has been created to keep you all up to date on the happenings of little Colby Poggemoeller. This is probably the easiest way for all of our family and friends to see this little guy since we're living down in California away from all our family and many of our friends.
Colby waited until October 21st (five days after his due date) to finally come into this world. It just so happened that his daddy flew in the night before and was able to see him born! My mom and I make the trek down to LAX, only an hour away, to pick Sterling up from the airport that Monday the 20th and headed straight to the hospital from there. We were scheduled to be induced at 9 pm but when I checked in the nurse told me I was already having contractions and we could wait to see if Colby would come on his own. Things went very very slowly as I watched a monitor that showed me the contractions of other women in the nearby labor and delivery rooms. As I watched these other women have huge contractions and then having their babies I was very discouraged. I was making progress just very slowly and with little discomfort. I did have a lot of pain from how Colby was resting while waiting to decide to finally come join us so I was given an epidural at 10 am on the 21st. Whoo hoo! No pain :) Colby still didn't seem to be in a hurry. He gave us quite a scare around 11 am when his heart rate dropped suddenly down to 70 and a couple of nurses rushed in to make sure that we were both ok. We got his heart rate back up, with a few worried tears on my part. And we started to push at 5 until noon. My mom and Sterling, along with the doctor and my nurse, sat watching the monitor waiting for a big enough contraction for me to push. This little guy was stubborn but he finally gave in and let us bring him into the world on October 21st at 12:10 pm. He was 7 lbs 14 oz and 21 inches long. He has a full head of dark brown hair and the most adorable little face!
Since we've been home from the hospital things have been going pretty well. We enjoyed having Grandma Lori here for a nice 2 and a half week vacation! She took such good care of us and I couldn't have survived the first 11 days without her here. We also loved having daddy around to take videos and pictures and make funny faces at Colby. It's been an adventure filled first 11 days and I can't wait to see what the next coming days bring.
I'll try to post some pictures soon!
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