He's Here!!

We got the call to come to the Hospital at 7:00 on Monday. We were a little late, and around 9:00 they got Allison a dose of cytotek (sp?) to get the labor started. Cytotek really helped her get going with Mac, so we wanted to see how she would do with it. About four hours later Allison had dialated a couple of centimeters, and the Midwife came in and said that they were just going to break the water and get Allison going on a pitocin drip (if any of you have ever talked to Allison about her wishes for childbirth, this is definitely not one of them). Anyway, the pitocin made the contractions more intense and frequent, and Allison wasn't dialating any more, so we went ahead and got an epidural (also not in her plan). Kudos to the anesthesiologist. He got it done really fast and only did a partial block so that Allison could still feel the contractions and work with her body. Shortly after that (about 4pm) Allison was at 8 1/2 cm, so it started to get really busy in the room. Allison kept having the urge to push, and finally the midwife came in and had her push to see where things were. She told us to hold on tight because he was really close, so she ran over and got on her gown, booties, and gloves, came back, and 4 more pushes and the baby was here! 7 lbs. 9 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long. He has dark hair, so we're excited to have a red-head, a blonde, and a brunette. We'd talked aboout naming him Spencer if he had dark hair, but we've been calling him Finn throughout the whole pregnancy, so here he is - Finnegan Robert Wischmeier.

Our sweet friends watched Abby and Mac all day and all last night (Chapman's you rock!!) so they came to the Hospital a few hours after he was born. Abby has been so excited to have another little brother, and was really excited to hold him when she got to the hospital. Mac just stared him down for a while and then pointed at him and said, "Baby!" about 7 times in a row.

Now everyone is doing great! We're excited for family to come and visit and help out for almost the whole month of July! Mostly we're just excited to have a happy, healthy baby who's been sleeping and nursing really well.

At one point Finn's heartbeat dropped a little low, so they moved Allison over on to her side and gave her oxygen. Everything was fine and got right back to normal, but we had to take advantage of the opportunity.

This really made us laugh. Here are the up/down controls for the hospital bed. If you notice, the image is of a pregnant person. Everytime Allison adjusted the bed she broke out into laughter.