Cole Marshall Dinkins

He's Here!

Cole Marshall Dinkins was born October 25th, 2008 at 2:36pm. It was very unexpected because I was scheduled to be induced October 27th but Cole decided he couldn't wait any longer! Saturday night at 4:00am I started having contractions at home. Then at 5:00am my water broke and it was off to the hospital. Of course we didn't have anything packed yet because we were not expecting to leave for 2 days so we were running around like crazy and had to throw everything together real quick. We finally made it to the hospital at 6:45am and by that time I was already 4cm dilated! So, first things first: EPIDURAL!! They finally came to give it to me at 9:45am and by that time I was already 6cm dilated! Can we talk about pain?!! And not to mention, they had to stick me 4 times because they kept missing! I wanted to hit someone at this point. But thankfully the anesthesiologist kept trying and finally got it in on the 4th try. I thanked God soon afterwards for creating the person that thought up the epidural. It was smooth sailing after that. I was able to sleep for a few hours and began to push at 1:30pm. I pushed for a good hour and finally Cole was here!!! He was 7lbs, 11 ounces and 20 inches long. They let us go home today and all I can say is thank God I am not pregnant anymore!!! I am loving life and loving my sweet new baby boy! I think that he is the cutest baby ever, (I am a little biased)! He is so sweet an we are enjoying holding him and loving on him! In other news, we have a winner for the baby poll (for those of you that want to see what place you came in, you can go to www.expectnet.com/games/LindsayBabypoll). The winner is Rebekah Robertson, one of my good friends. And her husband came in second! She came the closest to Cole's birthday, weight, length, and time of birth! Congratulations Rebekah and Steve, you get to babysit! For more pictures of Cole, you can visit our photo album at http://picasaweb.google.com/lmdinkins/ColeDinkins