My First Attempt at Blogging--Logan Arrives!

Well Meredith has convinced me that it is time to start a blog and I figured since we now have a new little baby this would be a great way to share all of our excitement. So here's a little update on our recent excitement. As many of you know already we welcomed our new little boy into the world on December 8, 2007. Logan James Rigby arrived after 12 hours of what I felt like was traumatic labor. My water broke at about 3am Saturday morning after we had a fun friday evening of steak and bowling!! We made it to the hospital at about 4:30am (because I thought it would be a good idea to take a shower and wash my hair before we went to the hospital and then realized that we should probably head out before we had the baby at home). After just a couple hours in the hospital (and an epidural!) it was time to start pushing. Unfortunately Logan didn't like all of that trauma and his heart rate dropped so the residents thought that they would need to do an emergency c-section. A whirlwind of organized chaos quickly set in and we were in the OR in about 2 minutes, dosed up and ready to go when Logan realized that he was really just fine. So no c-section (and still no doctor, he's supposedly on his way), but we had to wait a few hours for the epidural to wear off before I could start pushing. So a few hours passed and the epidural has definitely completely worn off and Logan is VERY ready to arrive but there is no doctor!! So after about 2 more hours of not being allowed to push and pretty much no epidural the doctor finally decided to show up (we still have no idea where he was or what he was doing). The doctor showed up and allowed us to try the vaccuum extractor one last time before they went back to do a c-section. With one last attempt, Logan came via the vaccuum extractor in about 2 minutes. Logan arrived with a very pronounced conehead and very alert! It was so exciting to finally see our new little guy.