More of Tucker

Tucker Allen Spence is HERE!!

On Monday night around 10 pm I started having contractions. They were about a half hour apart for the first couple hours, then were only 10 mins apart. By 3:30 am they were coming every 5 minutes and VERY painful! We called the on-call doctor and she said 1st babies take a while, so we should try and hold out another hour before we headed in. At 5:30 we went to the hospital and got checked in. I was dialated 3 cm and in quite a bit of pain and completely exhausted from already being up all night. We got moved to a room and I got an epidural around 7:30. At 8 am our doctor, Dr. Fiala, got to the hospital and checked everything out. It was going well and I was now 5 cm dialated. She said she'd see us in a couple hours and left. Within 15 minutes she was back in the room and everyone was standing around the monitors. They got on the phone and called for an OR stat for an emergency C-section. His heart rate had dropped to 60, very low, and they needed to get him out now! Luckily I had just gotten the epidural so I didn't have to be put completely under. Right as they were starting the surgery, his hear rate picked back up but they were still worried and wanted him out to make sure he was ok. Doyle got to watch him being pulled out. He said it was scary because the doc was pulling him out by his head! He started crying immediately, the best sound I've ever heard! I didn't get to see or do much, but Doyle got to be with him right away and watch them do all the tests and cut the cord. Then he carried him over so I could see him. He is the cutest baby I've ever seen, and I'm not biased or anything! The finished stitching my up and Doyle took him to the nursery to get cleaned up. He is doing great. No problems at all! I'm doing well too, a little sore, but really pretty well! He was 5 lbs 13 oz, pretty little, but 19 1/2 inches long which is about average for length. I don't know we ended up with a tall kid! His newborn going home outfit was HUGE on him so Grandma Christy bought him a couple premie outfits that fit great. We just got home at 10 or so tonight and we are both happy to be here. I'm sure I'm leaving something out, but it's late and we're heading to bed. We'll put up more pictures soon! Thanks for all your support and prayers. He's amazing!

New Pictures

Here are a few pictures from our last couple "growth check" ultrasounds. This one is from Sept 27th. He has his hand over his eyes!





This one is also from Sept and is just looking straight at his face.




This is a picture from October 18th. It is of the little bit of hair on the back of his head. I still don't really see it, but the technician is a trained professional so I'm taking her word for it! If I had to guess I'd say it looks wavy!

36 weeks

Growing, Growing, Growing

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Ultrasound Pictures

Just in case anyone didn't see them somewhere else.




This one is my favorite, he looks like such a little person!





This one his mouth is open and his hand is under his chin.


















His mouth was constantly opening and closing, the tech said he's either really thirst or he's talking back already!















Here are his boy parts, we got 2 of these. I guess he wanted to be sure we knew he's all boy!















Here is a really good one of his arm, I guess he's hitting me in this one!

Nursery

We finally got the nursery all decorated and organized. We bought alphabet wall stickers and spelled Tucker, baby, dog, fun, love around the room then we just stuck the rest up randomly. We hung ribbon around the edges of the room and used tiny clothes pins to attach pictures of family and friends. We thought then he'd always be surrounded by people who love him even if he doesn't get to see them often because they live far away. I hung some of my favorite outfits on the edge of the crib, just because I like to look at them. "I love mommy", "Chicks dig me" and "daddy's wingman" are a few of them. We also bought a bassinet so that he can sleep in our room for the first few weeks to make those mid-night feedings easier.