Matthew John

Alright, so I know I put up pictures without any words to go with them, but at least I put up something! Hey, I have 3 kids now - so that's my excuse!!!

Can you believe we actually made a B O Y! We didn't think we could do it, but it happened! Matthew John, born August 3rd, 7:32pm, 8lbs. He was born at West Suburban birthing center in Oak Park. My biggest fear was that I wouldn't make it to the place in time. It takes approx. an hour to get there from our house. My worry was that I would have to wait for Brian to come home to get me first (so that would be 2 hrs. min.), but it couldn't have worked out any better. We were actually at Brian's Grandma's surprise 75th b-day party (started at 3:00pm). I was having contractions (not too terribly different than I had been having the whole week) and feeling very uncomfortable (just being outside, trying to chat w/everyone), so finally around 5:15 or so I told Brian I really wanted to go home. We stopped to get gas on the way home and started timing the contractions just to see if they were a certain time frame apart or not. They were almost exactly 5 minutes apart. So I said, you know, maybe we should just drive up there just in case, since it's so far. Worst case we just took a nice long sunday drive. When we got there they were getting a bit stronger, so I said, alright - I better go in and get checked, just in case. Good thing I did, cause I was already at 7! I got into the tub and about 15 minutes later he was born into the water!

(this is my midwife)