Welcome to the World
Cannon Marc Armstrong
Born: Wednesday, April 11th, 8:58pm
7lbs. 3oz. 18 3/4" long
I woke up at 6:48am on the 11th and realized my water broke. Anthony was still asleep, so I woke him up and asked "do you want to have a baby today?" He was still a little fogged in and thought I was just implying that it would be a good day to have the baby, and he rolled over to go back to sleep."My water broke," I said. Anthony couldn't have shot up any faster!
"Do I have time to take a shower?" he asked.
And before I even finished calling my mom and Anthony's mom to tell them the news Anthony was in and out of the shower and already dressed. I called the hospital and they told me that since I wasn't feeling contractions yet to walk around and try to get things started.
My doctor called and told us to head up to the hospital around 9:00am so I could get on pitocin. It was a long, slow morning staying dilated at 4cm (from 2 weeks ago) and 90% effacement until about 4:00pm. As the doctor put it "you look entirely too comfortable to be in labor."
The nurse continued to up the dosage of my pitocin IV (from 3 to 17 over the course of the morning) until all of a sudden around 4pm I went from 4cm to 9cm in about an hour. It was so quick I got a pretty good dose of contractions before the anesthesiologist made it in my room.
When it was time to push I was really happy to have so much support from friends and family in the room. Anthony and Macie Robison (one of my best friends) counted for me and Lisa and Alyssa (mom-in-law and sis-in-law) gave words of encouragement from the sidelines and were ready to go with cameras when the moment arrived.
Some people tell me they think it's weird to have people in the room when you are delivering. Macie was kind enough to invite me to the birth of her daughter, Layla. And after having that experience I wanted to be able to share it with others. There is nothing that compares to the moments of first seeing a new life come into the world, fresh from heaven. It is the most spiritual, loving moment, as you can see from the faces of those who were there.
Many thanks to Macie, Lisa and Alyssa for helping me to capture this moment.
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| Macie & Lisa |
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| 1st moments with Cannon. He grabbed my finger so tight. |
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| Our happy little family |
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| Dad holding Cannon for the first time |
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| With Gram |
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| with Macie |
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| with Aunt Alyssa |
Those pictures are so very tender and sweet. :) Thank you so much for sharing them! I love them all! I'm so very excited for you and your little family! Those pictures are truly worth a thousand words.
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