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Our little bundle of joy, Ryan Frederick Downes, was born on
Tuesday, November 28, 2006, by Cesarean, at 12:58 am. He was 12 days late, and refused to come out on his own. He refused to budge even after 2 separate attempts to induce labour. So we went to a cesarean. Previously, on Nov. 23rd we had tried an induction that failed. We went back to the hospital on Sunday Nov 26th to try and induce the labour, and stayed for 3 hours, then went back on Monday morning at 8:00 am to start another induction. This time I dilated 2 cm, so they broke my water at 2:00 pm and I dilated another 2 cm, and progress stopped. I was scheduled in for a cesarean at 9:30 pm, but ended up being bumped by other more urgent cases. I went into the OR just after midnight, and Ryan was finally born.
We had to pull him kicking and screaming into the world, but now the little bugger's here.When he finally made his appearance, he weighed in at 9 lbs, 11 ounces. I'm still recovering from the experience. :) We stayed in the hospital until Friday Dec 1st and finally we were able to go home.
I've attached a couple of pictures of Ryan. In the first one he is
a few hours old, in the second, a little over a week old. He's already wearing 3-6 month sizes in sleepers, and he's not even 2 weeks old yet. He's bigger even than his weight might have you believe.
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