Introducing "Goose"

And so Baby #2 enters our family! What a handsome little man! He even has a matching stuffed giraffe to remember Aunt Jenn by while she's away serving a mission.

For those of you who are familiar with Baby #1's birth story, this birth was quite similar actually. 3 days before his official "due date," my water again began leaking in the wee hours of the morning. Since I was awake at 3:30 am due to the continuing need to use the restroom, but aware because of my experience with Baby #1's delivery that a water leak with no contractions was not an immediate problem, I started some laundry and tried to busy myself. I wanted to wait until a more reasonable time in the morning to wake the Mr. and call the sitter for Mickey so that everyone could begin this new transition with as much sleep as possible. We still started the morning earlier than normal, and let Mickey get up the first time he awoke instead of sending him back to bed. After breakfast, we called our sitter (4 times actually) and couldn't reach her (when she called back later she said she was swimming... right... jk Jess!). Around 8 am, Jess arrived and we drove to the hospital without stopping at the doctor's this time. Again, a much more calm ride than we anticipated. 

The hospital then had to do a ton of paperwork and test me to see if my water broke. Then we waited. The results of the test came back uncertain (one was negative, the other positive) so the doctor had to check any way to determine that I did indeed have a high leak (after which he broke the rest of the bag of waters) - still no contractions. I guess my body doesn't know how to go into labor and I had to be induced again. This time it took all the way until about Noon to get me started on Pitocin since the hospital pharmacy took a while to get it up to us, and when they did Baby #2 kept teasing the nurse by doing something concerning every time she left the room (and then went right back to normal when she returned). Nevertheless, once the Pitocin and epidural got going - and they woke me up from passing out...and put me on oxygen...and waited another 10-15 minutes for my blood pressure to increase from a concerning 50/30 (normal response for me with needles actually) - the labor was only 4 hours long, including the 15 minutes of pushing. Though Baby #2 required forceps to turn him (hooray for the epidural!), he was born a healthy 8 lbs. 10 oz. and 21 inches long!

This little one was given his nickname by his older brother when Mickey first came in and we asked him who the baby was he responded, "baby brother," "what's his name?" "it's Goose!" So there you have it, here's Goose: