Evan's Birth Story {April 19, 2004}

Tomorrow, Evan turns the big number 9!  In honor of his special day, I thought I'd share the story about how he made his grand entrance into the world.  After a little over two years of hoping and praying for a baby, Jason and I found out that we were expecting on August 17, 2003.  When I saw the plus sign, I laughed and cried at the same time.  Jason had a big smile on his face and then carefully watched my crazy display of emotions. =) After I was able to talk again, we sat down on our bed and decided to wait until I went to the doctor before we shared our good news.  That decision lasted almost 5 minutes before we gleefully called all of our family and friends.  We were beyond excited!!!!  During the first four months of my pregnancy, I didn't have morning sickness, I had all day long sickness.  It was awful!  I would get sick between 5 to 10 times a day.  In December of 2003, we found out that we were going to have a son.  By then, the morning sickness had eased up and the rest of my pregnancy was great, aside from the normal aches and pains of pregnancy.  At my 39 week appointment, my OB was a little concerned that Evan hadn't dropped.  He thought Evan might be too big and said that a C-Section was a high possibility.  On the evening of April 18th, I started having regular contractions.  By the early morning hours of April 19th, Evan's due date, we were pretty sure that I was in labor.  We went and picked up my mom and then we we sped off to the hospital.  Here I am mid contraction.

Jason was such a good little daddy to be during labor!  It took about 12 hours of labor, before our OB finally told us that he didn't think we'd need a C-Section.  I was so relieved!


After about 16 hours of labor, Evan made his grand appearance into the world!  He was absolutely, positively perfect!  He was born at 5:17 p.m.  He weighed 7 lbs 11 oz and was 19 1/2 inches long!

Jason cried and I laughed!  We counted his fingers and his toes.  I was amazed at how big his eyes were!  You know, I started loving Evan the second that I saw the positive on the pregnancy test.  I loved him even more in the months to come as I felt him move and kick me.  But, when I saw him for the first time, I felt love like I have never felt it before. It came rushing in like a flood. I couldn't even close my eyes without seeing his sweet little face.  It's such an amazing feeling!

Here's Jason holding Evan for the very first time!  Such a sweet moment!

Our family and friends couldn't get enough of our little guy!  Here's Papa Gene snuggling up Evan!

I love how you can see the love on Nana's face here!  She was head over heels!

We were a little family of 3!  I honestly couldn't have been more happy!  I had the two most amazing guys in my life!  For a very (and I mean VERY) short time, we had more boys than girls in our family. =)  I still feel so overwhelmingly blessed that God chose me to be Evan's mom!