January 13, 2015

With our due date of January 8th approaching, you could imagine that we were getting very anxious to meet our little man (and I was just about done with being pregnant). After speaking with our doctor, we decided to schedule an induction for January 13th unless he decided to make his appearance on his own.

We were told to check in at the hospital on the evening of January 12th to get settled and prepped for the induction. We ended up going to the hospital around noon because I thought my water had broken and I was beginning to feel more consistent contractions. Two hours later they were sending us home saying "see you back at six," so I went home and napped, Trey got a haircut, then we grabbed food and headed back to the hospital. After getting settled, they gave me some medication to prepare me for the pitocin the next morning. 

Around 11:30 that night, the contractions started getting a lot more intense. By 5:30am, I was pretty miserable and wasn't letting Trey sleep anymore. The plan was to get my epidural started, then move on to the pitocin. By the time the epidural was administered, there was no need for pitocin anymore. In fact, I was progressing so quickly that the epidural had a hard time keeping up! Time absolutely flew by and at 10:43am, our sweet boy made his debut!

Declan Herbert Houston weighed 8 pounds 6 ounces and was 20 1/2 inches long. He's absolutely perfect and we are so in love!

Naturally, we took about a million pictures in the hospital. Check them out!