I’ve not been getting very much sleep & I’m just barely awake & able to think clearly enough to want to try to send out some pictures & info of our new Baby Boy!!!

This is just a blast to make sure y’all know he’s here & how Melisa is doing… Ask if you want more details or whatever.

Bradey Joshua Smith

Born March 7th, 2008 @ 7:37 PM
Weight: 8lbs 9 oz
Length: 20.87 inches

He was breach a couple of weeks ago, but he had turned within a few days of his scheduled C-Section. When we got here for the scheduled C-Section, we double checked him via sonogram & sure enough, he was “vertex” (Head down in the right position for delivery). The Dr induced Melisa @ 12PM (broke her water & started her on pitocin). At 4PM Melisa was dilated to 10cm (ready to push!), but Bradey seemed like he didn’t want to drop down far enough…??? He’s gonna be a stubborn little guy! Mommy pushed for a little over an hour with not much movement out of the baby. We decided to stop pushing for a while to see if he would “labor down” naturally with the contractions, but they got so painful for Melisa (already w/ an epidural) & Bradey still wouldn’t budge. We decided to go ahead & have a C-Section to get the little guy out of there & get Melisa out of pain.

Everything went pretty smoothly since then. Baby & Momma are doing great & we’ll be headed home tomorrow (Monday).

OK… That was more info than I was planning on putting in here, but since it’s here now, I’m not going to go through the trouble of deleting it. Heck, I’m just going to copy/paste it into my blog so I don’t have to type it up again!

And a new adventure begins. (How on earth am I supposed to be Daddy to 2 little ones… One was hard enough! Well, hard isn’t the right word, more like consuming enough…)

Love you all (yes… even you). (Don’t ask me who I was talking to right there… I’m not even sure.)

Later,

Proud Daddy of 2 beautiful little boys.

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