Here's a few more pictures of Baby Jake...

His big sister Kayla adores him and wants to feed him, hold him, and change his diapers. At home she keeps taking all the toys out of his room and says that he'll need to learn to share. She also keeps wondering how all her old toys got in his room.

There's also a picture of proud papa. He's been changing all the diapers so far and wants to start a twitter page for Jacob. You know, all it would say is ate, pooped, slept, cried over and over again.

The paparazzi stopped by to offer us a million dollars for Jacob's picture today! (ha ha)

You can view some professional pictures at:

www.sjbhealth.org

follow the link to St. Joseph's Women's hospital and then click "Baby Portraits" from the menu on the left.

To access our baby album, use this privacy code: 0012-36464

There are 3 develishly handsome pictures for you to see. :-)

I was really hoping that Jacob would give me a good "labor" day, but that wasn't the case at all unfortunately.

It started with about 3 hours of painful pitocin induced contractions, then they finally gave me an epidural, only to have them accidentally tap spinal fluid giving me an instant headache!

It took another few hours (with a pounding headache) to get to 9 centimeters. Just as we nearly got to the pushing stage, his heart rate fell to a deceleration and was having trouble recovering - an indication that the cord was either blocked or around his neck. So, a team of doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists ran us to the OR for a stat C-section. I couldn't stop crying. Fortunately, he was born minutes later and was screaming like crazy. He's got a really good set of lungs. Much louder than Kayla when she was born.

Since then, he's been eating well but because he and I have different blood types, jaundice might be an issue so they're watching for that. As for me, the headache is gone, only to be replaced by a really, really sore stomach. Ouch.

Introducing Jacob Thomas

This afternoon at 3:15 little Jacob Thomas made his way into the world. He is 7lbs 7 oz and 19 3/4 inches long. He has a good set of lungs and is very active. I have had to change a couple of diapers so far and despite his very young age he fills them like a pro.