Well, today we welcomed Joshua Thomas Bowers into the world. He's a beautiful baby. He was alert and looking around from the very beginning (just like his mom and dad).
Today was a long day. We checked in to the hospital at 6am since we were the first case on the OR schedule. They took mom into the OR around 8:00am to get her set up with the anesthesia. Andrea looked as pretty as anyone could with a mesh knit cap. I went into the OR around 8:15. The total c-section procedure only took about 25 minutes. Our fabulous OB/GYN Dr. Ufberg got Joshua out nice and easy. He was wailing right away since he was not happy to leave the cozy environment mommy has provided over the past 9.5 months. The nurses cleaned him up quickly and gave him to me. He was all pink and so cute. After they finished with mom (which only took another 15 minutes) we got to spend an hour with Joshua post-op.
We finally got into the maternity ward around 1:30pm. Josh had received his first bath (a nice full scrubdown) and passed all his tests.
Andrea is resting nicely and Joshua is doing awesome. He's cooing alot, sticking out his tongue and making dad learn to change diapers on the go. He does really well when he laying on mommies chest. But he also seems to like it when daddy holds him.
Of course, we had so many great visitors today. MomMom and PopPop (Joan and Rege) were at the hospital the entire day sitting on the edge of their seats. They were so excited to have another male grandchild. We were also joined by Aunt Jenny, Aunt Courtney and Uncle Jeff. In fact, cousin Jack was one of the few to actually predict correctly that we'd have a boy. Kudos to Jack.
We're looking forward to more time tomorrow!!
We're so lucky.
Check out these two videos of our adventure.
Today was a long day. We checked in to the hospital at 6am since we were the first case on the OR schedule. They took mom into the OR around 8:00am to get her set up with the anesthesia. Andrea looked as pretty as anyone could with a mesh knit cap. I went into the OR around 8:15. The total c-section procedure only took about 25 minutes. Our fabulous OB/GYN Dr. Ufberg got Joshua out nice and easy. He was wailing right away since he was not happy to leave the cozy environment mommy has provided over the past 9.5 months. The nurses cleaned him up quickly and gave him to me. He was all pink and so cute. After they finished with mom (which only took another 15 minutes) we got to spend an hour with Joshua post-op.
We finally got into the maternity ward around 1:30pm. Josh had received his first bath (a nice full scrubdown) and passed all his tests.
Andrea is resting nicely and Joshua is doing awesome. He's cooing alot, sticking out his tongue and making dad learn to change diapers on the go. He does really well when he laying on mommies chest. But he also seems to like it when daddy holds him.
Of course, we had so many great visitors today. MomMom and PopPop (Joan and Rege) were at the hospital the entire day sitting on the edge of their seats. They were so excited to have another male grandchild. We were also joined by Aunt Jenny, Aunt Courtney and Uncle Jeff. In fact, cousin Jack was one of the few to actually predict correctly that we'd have a boy. Kudos to Jack.
We're looking forward to more time tomorrow!!
We're so lucky.
Check out these two videos of our adventure.
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