To Heaven and Back!

As many of you have heard, Holly did not have the smooth birthing that we had originally planned. I guess we should get used to our plans being changed on accounts of Lincoln! LOL. For those who did not hear, Holly's water broke about 4 a.m. on the morning of 19 June. Her contractions began getting much stronger by 2 p.m. that afternoon so we packed up and drove to the birthing center. We were welcomed with quite a surprise when she was not dilated at all! After a couple more hours, the midwife was able to get her dilated to 3 cm. This was where the fun began. She was contracting about every 5 minutes until 3 or so the next morning. After only getting to 4 cm we decided it was time to head to the hospital to utilize drugs to help the labor progress. About 26.5 hours after her water broke and fighting through hundreds of contractions, she finally decided to take the epidural. Without say, that relieved much of the pain, however the other drugs meant to progress the labor just weren't working. It was then that we decided on doing a cesarean section and to everyone's elation, Lincoln Steven Squires was born at 7:45 a.m. on 20 June 2009. His cries were the most beautiful thing we have ever heard. He was born healthy, weighing in at 5 lbs 14 oz and measuring 18 3/4 inches. Although part of that was his cone shaped head! So now I present to you, our newest addition...Lincoln Steven Squires!







So people may be wondering who won the lottery. Actually it would be Mom and Dad! Mommy was closest to the date and the length and Daddy was closest to weight. So thank you to everyone who played but tough luck. I guess our prize is our new son! LOL We will update more in the next couple of days but we wanted to get the pictures out. Thank you for everyone's support! We can't wait for everyone to meet him.