We're home!

We got home around 3pm today. Mom and baby are doing great! I've send out a link to our new photo album. If you didn't get it, let us know, and we'll send it to you! Time to get some rest, we're all beat. Thank the Lord, Vicki is here! She's be a great amount of help. My parents have been great also, just mention Vicki specifically since she cooked some mean turkey pasta! Everyone is so excited. Thank you to everyone for your thoughts as prayers!

Cameron is here!!!!!!

Cameron came this morning around 10:30. He weighed exactly nine pounds. We'll have a full report once he goes to the nursery. Mom and baby are perfect, and spending some time bonding!

He's almost here!

Michelle got an epidural around 3:30 this morning to help with contractions. At that point she was 3-4 cm. Now she is at 6cm, and Dr. Cole broke her water this morning. So we're off and running, Cameron will be here today!

Last post for the night (maybe)!

We are slowly moving along, contractions are mild and painless at this point. Pitocin starts at 6am tomorrow, so we're going to try and get some sleep. May give another update at midnight with the dilation check, but we'll see how tired we are.

We're in the hospital

We've been admitted to the hospital. Michelle has been given the dilating pill. They typically give 1/4 of the pill, since she's basically starting at 0, they gave her 1/2 pill. We will try to keep this updated with pictures and stuff, as much as possible!

More Pictures!

Here are some pictures of the nursery. We haven't had a change to put books on the book shelves yet, they were just installed today.

Baby shower pictures

We forgot to upload these pictures. These are from the shower Mandy McNabb and Elizabeth Foote threw for us in July. Thank you both so much for doing this!

Two more days!

We saw Dr. Cole today, and scheduled our visit to the hospital. We will be admitted to the hospital at 5pm Wednesday, Sept. 16. They will give Michelle a dilating agent around 6pm, and another at midnight. If she's not starting labor, they will start Pitocin at 6am. Cameron Bruce Henderson will be here no later than Thursday!

No 09-09-09 Birthday

We saw Dr. Gorman again today to find out I'm still not dialated at all. He's still low, which is good, because we've been walking 2.5 miles a day to ensure he's low. We heard the heartbeat again today, something you never tire of. Cameron's legs and feet are over on my right side and his little butt is right above my belly button (or what used to be my belly button). It's amazing how the doctors can poke around just a tiny bit and know exactly how he's positioned. Everything is looking great. The doctor told us it's normal for your first pregnancy to go beyond the due date and that he sees this ten times a day.

We scheduled our final prenatal appointment for next Tuesday (11:30 again) with Dr. Cole. If I'm still not dialated, we'll be back Wednesday evening to get things started...otherwise we'll be back Thursday morning. We're curious to see what they consider "evening" and "morning". Either way, it looks like Cameron's birthday will most likely be September 17th (four months after mine to the day). We found out the list of on call doctors for next week. It looks like if things go fast and he arrives Wednesday he'll be delivered by Dr. Cole (we saw him at 20 weeks after our ultrasound). If he arrives on Thursday he'll be delivered by Dr. Seale, who we've seen twice already and really liked. Dr. Hinton will be on call starting Friday until Sunday. We should have the hard parts over with by then and be itching to get home!

So...this is our last weekend as a family of two. Next week everything will change...for the rest of our lives. We were talking at lunch about how we feel a little less anxious now that something has been scheduled/planned. Yes, he could still come before then, but given the progress so far, it seems highly unlikely.

Two more weeks??

Today we saw Dr. Gorman. We had heard some bad things about him, but I think that woman was just disgruntled. Dr. Gorman was excellent! He told jokes and made us feel comfortable to be around him. Our due date is Sept. 9, which is next Wednesday! Dr. Gorman told us we would be back on the 9th and if Cameron isn't here by then, we would come back on the 16th. The doctor told us if he's not here on the 16th, he should be here before December! We thought that was pretty funny.

Seriously, if Cameron isn't here by Sept. 16, we will go in that day to schedule induction on Sept 17. So at the absolute latest, Cameron Bruce Henderson will be born Sept 18-19! So everyone that is itching to see him, you have at most 16 days. So be patient, we're walking and doing everything the doctor says to get him here as fast as we can.

We hope to have his nursery complete very soon, and will have pictures on here as soon as that is done.