Ethan Preston Ashby was just so anxious to enter the world that he came a few weeks early! We like to think he really wanted to meet Grampa and Skinny while they were visiting from Uruguay. Or maybe he got lonely up there with out his best buddy Carver.
He weighed just 5 lbs 1oz.
He is so cute and such a sweet little boy. We are overwhelmed with love for him.
The labor interesting... Not at all what I had imagined, much better happily. I think it was better only because I didn't know I was in labor. Here's what happened. We had dinner with my father and mother-in-law who were in town for the birth of Carver, my sister-in-laws first baby. After dinner Sunday night I was having some cramps. I just thought it was the food or something because they were low and really didn't hurt that bad. After everyone went home, the cramps starting getting a little more painful, but I didn't think they were contractions especially becasue I was still 3 1/2 weeks away from my due date. This continued until around 11:00 pm when Pres called the doctor just to see what he would say. Just like I thought, the doctor said it was probably nothing but if we were worried to start timing them. I didn't want to time them because I thought that would make me focus on the cramps and how often they were coming. So Preston secretly timed them while I took a shower, dried my hair, walked around, and pretty much I did anything not to focus on them. At 12:30, we called Ben, my brother-in-law to come down and with Pres give me a blessing. At 1:30 we finally decided to go to the hospital just to see what was going on. I really fought Pres on this one because I didn't want to show up at the hospital and have the nurses tell me I was dilated to a 2 and send me home. Well, we got to the hospital at 2am and settled in a room and after about 15 min a nurse finally came to check me. She started panicking and told us I was dilated 9cm. She said, "Don't push, don't push! We have to wait till the doctor gets here!" After that nurses started rushing in, flipping on all the lights, and hooking me up to all this stuff. At that point I was getting really nervous because that was the first time I really believed I was in labor. The nursing were really panicky and that scared me even more. That's when it started to really hurt. The nurses let me kow that since I was already so far along I wouldn't be able to have any medication for the pain. Twenty minutes later or so, the doctor walked in, and said, " Ok, you can start pushing now." I pushed once and his head was out and again and his body was out. The doctor barely put his hands out in time to catch him. He was born at 2:46am and weighed 5lbs 1oz. He was a strong boy from the very beginning. He didn't need oxygen or anything. The only thing was that since he was so tiny he had a hard time keeping his body temperature up so they put him under heat lamps for a little during the first night. So that's the story. Sorry, I guess I could have condensed it a bit. :)
Don't mind Preston's gangster rolled up pant leg!
They both look great in brown...
They both love to eat...
And they both love to nap!
This is right outside our house. I think we got atleast 4 inches!
Christmas morning in our new Pj's
Ethan and Carver has been best buddies since birth. They are just 13 days apart!
Aren't they the cutest stocking stuffers ever?
Preston doen't usually wear scarves, but it tied in Ethan's sweater so nicely that I couldn't resist.
