A big welcome to our newest family member. Logan John Thomas was born April 21st at 3:15 in the afternoon. He was a month and a day early. I was on bed rest 2 weeks prior to his arrival. I started having contractions on April 5th and had to go to the hospital to have them stopped and to get steroid shots to help in his lung development. A week later I was in the hospital again because his heart rate was on the high side. At the last stress test I had, April 19th, everything looked good. I was even given the green light to go to the movies. The night before he was born I was getting ready for the little guy. I was washing his blankets and towels and decided to stay up a little later than I was used to. Big mistake. At 2:15 am Saturday (April 21st) I thought that I had to go to the bathroom, but my water broke. Of course Brian was working the night shift. I had to wait almost an hour and a half for him to come home and take a shower before we were ready to go to the hospital. Thank goodness I wasn't in any pain.

Of course once I got to the hospital my contractions were slowing down. I was put on Pitocin to regulate the contractions. After 5 minutes of being on the drug I was starting to feel the contractions in my back. I was in so much pain that I was crying. So it was time for the epidural. The first attempt was unsuccessful. The doctor didn't like the way it went in. So we had to try a second time for the epidural to go in. By the time that second one was done I was so numb from the medicine of the first one that I couldn't feel a thing. About a half hour after that it was go time. Little Logan was born healthy at 6lbs, 6oz. We did have to spend an extra night in the hospital because of his jaundice, but we got to take him home on Tuesday, April 24th. He is almost back to his birth weight, but he is a good little eater and sleeper.