Carter Anthony Pope

Carter Anthony Pope was born Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 5:47 pm. He weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs 1 oz (a whole 2 pounds bigger than his brother) and 21 inches long. I would have to say that by the way I felt in the last days of having him inside of me, I just knew he was a big kid! As for the labor story, for those who are interested, my water was leaking early Tuesday morning (although at the time I wasn't quite sure what it was since there were no contractions with it). Caleb had left really early that morning to go skiing since it had snowed 11 inches the night before. I already had a doctor's appointment that day at 12:20 so I figured I'd just fillin the doctor when I went and then give Caleb a call when I found out more. As soon as he checked me he told me my water had broken and that he was sending me straight over to the hospital. At that point I called Caleb, who was already heading home, and he told me that the canyon road had been closed up until that time (so luckily I hadn't gone into labor before then or else he would have been stuck!) Caleb got to the hospital around 2:00 pm and they started the pitocin at 2:08 pm. They had to up it 4 times before I started to feel any contractions and around 3:30 pm my water really broke and immediately following, my contractions got hard! After enduring the hard contractions for a while, I decided to try out some IV drugs which helped to relax me during the break between contractions but did nothing during the actual contractions. Shortly after that I decided I might as well just get the epidural. Well, should have decided that a bit sooner since by the time I got my epidural, I was already dilated to a 9 and it didn’t ever “catch up” like it was supposed to. I unfortunately for a short 15 minutes got to feel all the pain of pushing out a 9 pound baby, but of course it was worth it. Here’s our new baby boy!

Cooper did great when he came to see his new brother. He wanted to hold him and he says Baby Carter very well ("bebe tarter"). Let's hope this good streak lasts!

Kisses!

After a while he leaned into me almost as if to say, "You're still my mom right?" Such sweet boys!