Baby Dax Has Arrived!

Written by Brian

Thursday, 08 January 2009 09:10

We had a late Christmas gift this year. Dax was born on 12/27/2008! He was 7lbs. 13oz. and 20 and 3/4 inches long. The circumstances around his birth were a little interesting. If you've known us very long you'd just think this is the norm. There were interesting circumstances around all four of our kids' births. At least things weren't as strange as they were with the other kids.

We had a c-section scheduled for the 23rd, but the amnio on Monday said he wasn't ready. So we scheduled the c-section for the 31st to give his lungs some time to mature. Tracy woke up on the 27th and was feeling a little strange and her stomach was hard. As many of you know, this can be a symptom of a ruptured uterus, except she wasn't having excruciating pain. The doctor recommended she come in to the hospital since he was on call anyway. Off she went to the hospital (St. John's), with Graham tagging along (This wasn't the first time she went to the hospital this pregnancy, so we didn't think much of it.). I took the girls to Target, in Owasso, to do some shopping.

Well, while waiting in line at the service desk at Target I get a call from Tracy. She tells me to drop what I'm doing and head to the hospital. Dax is coming out! At least I got my return done before having to leave! It turns out her uterus had thinned out to 1.5mm from 3mm a couple of weeks prior. There was concern about a uterus rupture the entire pregnancy. This came from the discovery, during the third c-section, of her uterus being extremely thin. So the whirlwind began.

Everything turned out fine. Both Tracy and Dax are doing great! We brought Dax home the following Tuesday and Reagan can't put him down. She is totally the mothering type! Graham and Reese were pretty interested in him at first, but they are slowly losing interest in him.

I have uploaded some picture in the photos section of the site.