Meet Baby Nicholas

So my new little boy decided that Tuesday wasn't going to work for him, so he decided to come into the world on Friday instead. I was at home with all 3 kids, and started to have minor contractions around 10:30 that morning. I called my neighbor around noon to see if she would let Nolan and Natalie come over for a bit so I could try and time the contractions and figure out if I was truly in labor. When the contractions didn't quit, I decided to go ahead and go to the hospital. I was admitted at about 4:00, hooked up to pitocin at 7:00, water broken around 10:00, and Nicholas was born at 11:00. I decided that for this last baby, I would go drug free. It wasn't that bad until the 10 minutes it took to go from 6cm to 10 cm. My doctor left the room after he examined me at 6 cm....five minutes later, he came and checked me again, and I was at 8 cm....he tried to leave the room (thought I would be at least 15 more minutes), but I told him there was NO WAY I couldn't be ready, and I was right....it was time to push. Pushing without an epidural was quite different as well.....MUCH more painful than I could have imagined. But all in all, I'm glad I did it naturally for the final baby.

Nicholas Andrew Cook weighed in at 7 pounds 4 ounces and measured 19.5 inches long. He was born at 11:00pm on the nose on Friday, November 7, 2008. Here are the pics so far.







Welcome to the world!

He doesn't look too thrilled, huh?

Another boy for Daddy!

Happy to see new baby brother.

Nolan loves his new brother sooooo much!




















Natalie's gonna love being a big sis again.










Nathan could have cared less about the new baby.....he was happy to be with Mommy again.