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BL Sex: girl Born: 07 February, 1990 Age: 18 years & 306 days Birthday in: 59 days Starsign: Aquarius Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Accepted in to every college she applied to!!

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JJ Sex: boy Born: 07 August, 1992 Age: 16 years & 124 days Birthday in: 241 days Starsign: Leo Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Playing Varsity Baseball Freshman and Sophomore year. One of the starting pitchers Sophomore year!!

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JL Sex: girl Born: 10 June, 1996 Age: 12 years & 181 days Birthday in: 184 days Starsign: Gemini Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: President Bushs` academic excellence award!!

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JD Sex: boy Born: 01 July, 1998 Age: 10 years & 160 days Birthday in: 205 days Starsign: Cancer Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Straight A`s all year so far!!

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MP Sex: boy Born: 06 October, 2003 Age: 5 years & 62 days Birthday in: 303 days Starsign: Libra Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Riding a scooter by himself!!

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PE Sex: girl Born: 28 February, 2005 Age: 3 years & 281 days Birthday in: 84 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -She`s potty trained!!

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TJ Sex: boy Born: 06 September, 2006 Age: 2 years & 91 days Birthday in: 274 days Starsign: Virgo Development: See the 27 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -He can feed himself yogurt!! It`s his favorite.

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NA Sex: boy Born: 05 March, 2008 Age: 0 years & 275 days Birthday in: 90 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 9 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -Staying out of the hospital for almost 3 weeks now!! YAY!

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 10 hours
Weight @ birth: 8 pounds
Length @ birth: 20 and a half inches

Nathan-Alexander`s birthstory

We went in at 7am. I was still only 1cm dilated. Boo!! The baby was still head down. Yay!!! My nurse started the pitocin at 8am. At 9:15 my doctor checked me. I was at 3 cm. She broke the bag (she felt his hand on the top of his head and moved it back ) and went to the office. The nurse called the anesthesiologist for my epidural. She came about a half an hour later. I knew from the get go something was different about the epidural. The whole process was really painful. It had never been in the past. I think she was really bad at administering it. Anyway, by 11:30 I was still only 3 cm dilated. Very unusual for me. I just wasn`t progressing very well. By 1:00 I was at 6cm and in a lot of pain. I was feeling my contractions intensely. I felt partially numbed. After about an hour and a half my nurse checked me and I was at 7cm. I was dying. I couldn`t stop crying. My husband was beside himself. He never experienced me in pain like this. Well , needless to say, my epidural quit. My nurse came in the room with another lady and introduced me to her friend Michelle. She was the new anesthesiologist on duty. They offered to redo my epidural. After about a half hour of talking to my husband about it and going through more horrific, pitocin induced contractions , we decided to redo it. Sure enough, when she pulled the catheter out is was bent. The last tech put it in crooked. No wonder I felt so many pinched nerve feelings in my back. Anyway, all of my contraction pains went away, immediately. It was like heaven! I was a new person. Michelle became my new best friend. Or so I thought. So....at 5:00 I was 8cm. We still couldn`t figure out why I was progressing so slowly. My nurse, who had been with me from the start was due to end her shift at 6:00. I was determined to have the baby with her there. She was the best nurse I had ever had. I wish I could have labored with her for all of my kids. I just tried to lay back and relax and let things happen. As always in the past, when I`d relax with the epidural, I`d dilate fast. By 5:45 or so I knew I needed to push. I sent my husband running to get my nurse. She came in and checked me, sure enough, I was fully dilated. She went to call my doctor. Meanwhile, I`m desperately trying not to push. Hmmmmmm......I can feel the urge to push?? Never really felt it like that before. Oh and I felt her check me for dilation too. Never really felt that before either. Anyway, my doctor comes running in and they get everything ready. Okay, time to push. I have always been a 2-3 push mom. Never took more than 3 pushes to get a baby out. But.... I never felt my babies coming out. Oh crap, I`m feeling the baby come out. Like every burning, tearing bit of him. that was the worst pain I have ever felt in my entire life. I started to get scared I wasn`t going to be able to get him out. But, I did it. 8 really hard pushes later my sweet Nathan was born. I couldn`t hold him right away, I hurt so bad. I couldn`t get over the insult of the burning I felt. They put him on my tummy and I kissed him and held on to him but couldn`t get past the pain. And the thought, `Oh shit, am I ever going to have hemmorhoids!!` So, why did I feel him come out?? I have never, ever felt one of my kids come out with an epidural. What happened? Never did get the answer on that one. Why did it take so long to have him?? He was trying to come out with his head back and face tilted up. Silly boy. My doctor had to turn him a little to get him out. Another reason why it hurt sooooo bad to deliver him. Oh well, I guess I had to feel labor and delivery once with all of these guys. God did warn Eve:)
Besides the pain in my rear and being really tired, I am one happy mom. Happy to not be pregnant anymore but even happier to to be holding my adorable baby boy. He has a head full of dark, dark hair and this little face that reminds me of his 4 year old brother. My kids just love him. At first my 18 month old wanted nothing to do with him but now he giggles and laughs and tries to touch him. It`s so cute. It`s a good life and we are so very blessed. (Sorry if I gave too much info with any of this or scared anyone, I just wanted to be honest.)

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