After a mere 38.5 weeks of gestation, Benjamin James has finally arrived. While he was born 10 days before his due date, he had to wait an extra two hours longer than planned. An emergency C-section early this morning bumped back all the scheduled appointments. In the grand scheme of things 2 hours is a short time to wait. The mom and baby that caused the delay came out alright, too; so the wait was well worth it.
This picture was taken an hour and a half after he was born. Under that hand-made, donated hat is a full but thin head of brown hair. As it is only about 1/2 an inch long, we won't know for a while if it will stick up like his cousin Evy's. His skin is still very pink and he's got a lot under it - notice the extra roll under his chin. He keeps trying to open his eyes which are a dark, baby blue but probably won't stay that way.
Both mom and baby are healthy which is all we would ask for - and Stacey is recovering much faster and more comfortably than she did with Hannah. Ben weighed in at a whopping 7 pounds 14.4 ounces, making him only 1.6 ounces lighter than his big sister when she was born on her due date. This also makes Brian the winner of the baby poll without a need to go to the height tie breaker. We are still planning to find out the height tomorrow even though it doesn't count for anything.
We appreciate the love, support and prayers we have recieved and look forward to introducing him to everyone in person.
1 comment:
Congratulations!
Glad everyone is doing well. We can't wait to meet Ben!
Lots of love to all of you.
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