Chris Hubbard

Welcome Josiah David Hubbard!

Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 10:39 AM
Weight: 8 lbs, 0.4 oz
Length: 21 1/2″
Head: 14″

We arrived at Clarian North this morning at 6 AM for the induction of our 5th child.  Grandma McFall is at home with Alyssa, Mikayla, Joshua, and Elaina waiting to hear the news of the birth of their new baby brother.

We were in LDR3, the same room for Elaina’s birth two years ago.  It seems like ages ago.  We were talking on the way to the hospital that it didn’t seem like it has been 9 months already.  We just finished the all too familiar checkin procedures and the nurses left the room.  Michelle said, “Honey, I can’t believe we are here.”

They started the Pitocin drip at 6:40.  Wendy and Elizabeth are our nurses.  Dr Denman came in at 7:55 and broke Michelle’s water.  Michelle was actually contemplating going natural, so the nurse told us to just give them 15 minutes to increase her fluids if we decided to do the Epidural after all.  Dr Denman thought that the delivery would come fairly quickly so we would need to decide soon.  Within 30 minutes (and quite a bit stronger contractions), the anesthesiologist was call and she came in at 8:30.

At 10:26 the nurse came to check Michelle and she said she was at 10cm and +1.  Shortly after that Dr. Denman came and prepped for delivery.  Before I knew it, Michelle was pushing and out came Josiah, two and half pushes that is.  We thought for sure that he was going to take longer to deliver than Elaina, but he was here 7 minutes sooner than she was.

He his a beautiful little boy.  He is melting my heart already.  Welcome to the family little buddy!

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