Benjamin Josiah is here!

Just 3 short days after our Dr's appt where we scheduled our c-section! It was a day like any other, went to Cera's soccer game...ate lunch...had a couple really good contractions...nothing new. The Dr. had told us anything more than 4 contractions in 1 hour that we were to go in and get checked out. Well, I figured if I started walking and they got stronger then we would go in. So we headed off to the PX to look for a camera. Had lots of contractions, but nothing worth paying attention to. I started feeling really sick (not going to make you live through the gore of all that!) so Jamie said let's go in. I have been battling morning sickness the entire pregnancy, but this was more than usual. So off we went to the labor and delivery wing of the hospital. I told the nurse what was going on and noticed that on the clip board where they write down what is happening with each woman she wrote LABOR. Just like that...all caps! Course we had informed her that this was our 5th baby so I am thinking she figured we knew what we were talking about!

About 5 minutes later the Dr on call came in to check me. We told him awe had a c-section date scheduled. After he checked he looked at us and said you're having a baby today!!! I was dilated to 3 and 50 % effaced.

That all happened at 3:30pm. At 6:39pm Benjamin arrived!!!! Jamie and I were still in shock! He looks just like Xavier!

I have had a few problems since he was born, the first night I stopped breathing for a bit and had to be put on oxygen. Also, I developed a fever and throwing up. (Not fun!) I am currently getting over pneumonia (we were surprised to find out that's what it was, as we thought it was an infection of the uterus or a bladder infection.) So because of that, I had been very tired and had full body aches and all that good stuff you get when really sick. I am doing better now and thankfully Ben never had any problems! I will try to post more pictures as I can.