Grant is Here!

Grant William Edman joined our family this afternoon at 2:18 PM. He was a biggun!
As you can see by the scale, he was 9 lbs, 1.2 oz. I remembered it as 1.4 so I was a bit off from what I told everyone via Facebook and such.
Jayne was such a trooper. Here she is walking around trying to get things moving along. The nursing staff called her "Super Mom" lol.

We have been awaiting his arrival for quite sometime. The OB said at her appointment on 06/04 that he was 100% sure she would go into labor before her next appointment. Didn't happen. At her appointment on 06/11, he was 100% sure she would go into labor over the weekend. Didn't happen. Thankfully, his Plan B was to have her induced today. We called the hospital at 5:30 AM to see if they had room. This being a "Social Induction" we had to make sure they had a room for us. Thankfully, they did and we made our way down. Dr. Lambourne came in about 7:30 to break her water but stopped just short of it as he noticed that Grant had his hand on his head. Breaking it then would have resulted in a hand popping out first! So he had her walk around Labor and Delivery for about 40 minutes to see if we could get things going on her own. That was a possibility as she had been contracting for about 5 days now. Well, things sort of remained the same so Pitocin was started. When the contractions increased, the Epidural was given and Jayne praised modern medicine at that point. Honestly, the staff here at Sutter was top notch as were the facilities.

The time came to push and after two short contractions, out came Grant! Jayne did wonderful as did Grant. It was a little scary as he came out since there was myconium in the amniotic fluid and he wasn't crying at first. Thankfully, the OB saw this early and called the NICU team down. They were waiting for him right as he was born and promptly suctioned out his mouth and nose, did their magic (I didn't see what they did as they rushed him to the corner and worked on him) and he was crying like a champ in under 30 seconds. We felt very fortunate.
This photo was taken the night before. Aside from being the night before her induction, it was momentous because we discovered that we both weighed the same!
And here's the happy family of five. Can you believe it? We can't! Darcy said the cutest thing when she heard Grant had arrived. Grandma Debbie, who has been with us for over a week and a huge help with the kids, told her the Grant was here and she immediately exclaimed, "I want to go see Baby Grant right now!" The kids loved him at first glance. We are so grateful to our Father in Heaven to have blessed us with such a wonderful child. And thanks to all of you who have kept us in your prayers and have already sent heartfelt congratulations.