and then there were six...

just like that!  

he's a little purple…  he had a cord wrapped around his whole body!

daddy loving on his baby boy!!

more daddy snuggles!

sweet face.

kisses!

snuggles.

more of this precious face!

all 8 pounds of him.  and he's 21 inches long.

brandon peter haile made his debut in this world at 1820 hst on 03 mar 2014.  (in case you were wondering, that is also the anniversary of when david and i met!!  how fun!)

(disclaimer… i tried to keep it not too gory, but here's the "story"!) 

(another disclaimer… i also didn't mean to make that rhyme!)

david and i had talked at the beginning of my pregnancy about the possibility of being induced just before he left.  and then again over the weekend before b was born.  neither time did we want to jump on that.  as much as i wanted david there, and as much as i wanted to plan and control things, it just didn't feel right.  it was still a little early (37+5 weeks), it was a crazy week for david, etc.  

i laughed at one point, and commented that i could still have the baby that day or any time, really!

so, i went in for my appointment.  and my water broke!

d's ship was at the ammo station, which is in the west loch of pearl harbor.  all that really means is that he has to take a bus/van/car/boat to get to the ship from the naval station.  so, he drives his five minutes to work, and then has an alternate mode of transportation to the ship.

what that meant to me, that day, was that i knew it could take him over an hour to get to me at the hospital.  so, i called the phone number i had been given to reach him on the ship, not knowing who would answer!  i was told david was in a brief.  i told the nice person that his wife was going to have a baby, and could they kindly let him know?  (i said it very calmly and sweetly…)

all david knew at that point was that this guy came running in to his brief, panting and anxious.  and that they had a small boat waiting for him to jump in to to get back to his car.  and make it to the hospital in record time!!

i was 3 cm, and not really contracting at this point, but wanted to wait to do anything more until i knew david was in route!  also made more difficult by the fact that i had NO cell phone signal…  

david beat my friend (who was going to come sit with me till he could get there) to the hospital.  he'd even stopped at home to get my bag!  and we laughed at the fact that we had continually said "no" to intentionally having the baby that day!  but, God has a great sense of humor!!!  a good reminder of who is in control!

david got to the hospital sometime before 3pm.  and then we started just a bit of pitocin.  i was still only 4 cm and getting pretty uncomfortable.  i decided to just talk to the anesthesia lady, just in case, and quickly decided i actually wanted her services!  by the time i was done getting my epidural, i was 8 cm and still pretty uncomfortable!  my amazing midwife got all set up for delivery, and then we had a baby!  

just like with christopher, david got to catch brandon.  it was so cool!  

we seem to be healing/recovering/growing well!  brandon sleeps like a champ and his brothers and sister are so amazingly in love.