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NATHAN COLE Sex: boy Born: 10 May, 2008 Age: 0 years & 7 days Birthday in: 358 days Starsign: Taurus Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Cesarean section
Duration of labor: 12 hours
Weight @ birth: 8 lbs, 7.5 oz
Length @ birth: 21 inches

NATHAN-COLE`s birthstory

I apologize for listing Nathan`s birth under the wrong birthdate, but alot of ladies are asking how it went, and I wanted to make sure they saw it... I will change to the real birthdate in a week. :)
This is Nathan`s birthstory in my husband`s words (My story additions are in parenthesis):
What a day can bring! Baby Nathan Cole was born May 3, 2008. (The day after our anniversary. I was 39 1/2 weeks along.) He was 8 pounds, 7.5 oz.- our biggest baby so far. He was born through cesarean section. Tamra woke me up around midnight. (It was 1 AM) She was in early labor. So I picked up her mom to watch our other children while we were gone to the hospital. At the hospital they put Tamra on a monitor to see if she was in labor or not and after about an hour and a half they decided that she was in labor. Through the wee hours of the morning they kept checking her to see how far along she was and she made good progress from about 4 cm to 7 cm at around 7 am. (They broke my water, and labor did not speed up.)Around that point it was decided to put her on pitocin. ( The epidural was only working on half my body for a couple of hours.)By about 11 am, she was told to start pushing. Just at about that time her epidural stopped providing pain relief. (Totally quit working, right when the back labor started from his head being crooked. How awful was that!!!!) She continued to try to deliver but was getting warn down by the pain. At about 12 the baby should had been down far enough to come out, but he was stuck. ( I was telling them that baby wasn`t budging, and I felt like they weren`t listening. I told them to knock me out. Then I said,`Just kill me!` The Dr. was thinking that there couldn`t be a problem, as I had delivered 4 other babies easily. He was talking in the hall. The nurse dragged him in, and I told him to turn off the pitocin, which he did.I told the Dr. that I wasn`t feeling baby move past the point he had been at for quite a while. I said `, `Get this kid out of me! I want a c-section!)1pm The doctor came in to discuss what options we had. The three that Tamra was given were 1 to keep pushing, 2 try to vacuum the baby out or 3 to do a cesarean section. The pushing just wasn`t going to work- after like 2 hours of pushing baby just wasn`t coming out. Vacuum had the problem of baby could get further jammed and hurt along the way and it would be much more painful since the epidural wasn`t working anymore, so Tamra decided to go for the cesarean section. Tamra went in for the cesarean section around 1 pm and baby was born at 1:30 pm. Baby`s head even after 2 hours of labor was 11 cm so he just wasn`t going to fit past the cervix.

(So, I had a c-section, and when I woke up and saw Nathan's black hair, I decided on the middle name- Cole! Cole means dark, or charcoal. Dad wanted something short, I wanted something strong...It fits!)

At this point baby and mom are doing well. Tamra is looking at needing six weeks to recover. I have planned to be off for three weeks. Please keep us in your prayers at this point that Tamra will completely and fully heal quickly from this unplanned surgery. Pray for our finances. We plan to use the federal stimulus refund to help with the lack of pay for three weeks. Pray also about my job situation. I am trying for a promotion at my current job but if I am going to be out for more than three weeks my employer might not consider me for that promotion. Please also pray for the rest of the family as we transition to the new member of the family. Particularly Heather is going to have to get used to not being they baby of the family. She is such a princess I am not sure how she is going to take having a new baby. (She`s doing okay. She is kind of in Mama withdrawal, since she can`t be with me as much, and usually can`t be as close to me as she`s use to, as I`m guarding baby on one hand, and my incision on the other hand.She seems to go into screaming spells more easily. But she loves baby Nathan! Her favorite thing to say: `Mama, his eyes are open!` Nathan is very sweet, and pretty quiet. For the past two nights he has slept great with us. I was a little worried that he wasn`t nursing enough, but at his check up today, he had gained past his birthweight. So he`s doing great!)That`s the update for now.

(Thank you, ladies, for your friendship and support through this mutual journey to holding our newborns! May the Lord bless you and your little one!)

(I`d like to share the bible verse that the Lord gave to me concerning Nathan, when I was feeling like I didn`t have enough energy to care for another little one...)

Isaiah 40:28-31

28 Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the LORD,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

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