Introducing Connor Patrick

Connor Patrick was born on Friday June 5th at 10:35 AM, weighing in at 7lbs 11 oz. Both Stacy and Connor are doing great.

Here's the quick story of Stacy's labor:

The day before Connor was born Stacy had her 38 week appointment. She was already dilated 3-4cm with 2 weeks to go before her due date. That afternoon we took a tour of Labor & Delivery at the Naval Hospital on base where Stacy would be delivering. (Little did we know how timely this tour would be.) That evening we had dinner with Stacy's college friend, Lauren, for Lauren's birthday. Lauren just graduated medical school so we knew were in good hands if anything happened. Later that evening Stacy started feeling something, but thought it was more of an after-effect from the doctor's appointment and not labor pains. Until the pains started coming every 7-8 minutes. Stacy went to the kitchen to start cleaning up from dinner. The clanking of pans awoke Kevin from the couch, who said "Just leave the dishes for tomorrow."

Stacy's reply "I don't want to leave them."

Kevin: "Why?"

Stacy: "Because I'm having contractions."

(Silence)

After that, Kevin helped to quickly clean the kitchen and started timing contractions. We had most of our bags packed, but had to put the last minute things in them. We already had a plan for Meghan to go to our neighbor's house when Stacy went into labor so we made sure she had everything she needed in her overnight bag. At this point Stacy's contractions were about 5-6 minutes apart. It was about 11PM, so we tried to get some rest. Within about 15 minutes Stacy's contractions were 3 minutes apart and getting a little more intense. We figured it was time to head to the hospital so we called the family. Kevin carried Meghan over to our friend's house (asleep in her pajamas) and we made our way to the hospital.

We got to the hospital around 1AM. After spending an hour in the pre-admission room (where they monitored Stacy's contractions) we finally got to our delivery room- the exact room we were in for the tour earlier that day. We waited a few hours for Stacy to get an epidural. At this point Stacy was 7-8 cm. And then we waited a few more hours until they finally broke her water at 9AM Friday morning.

A little after 10AM Stacy was ready to push. 15 minutes and 10 pushes later our newest addition entered the world. IT'S A BOY!!