Grant Richard Nash

He's here at last. Actually he's my first child to ever come early, so I'm not going to complain. I'll give a short run down on the birth story.

My water broke last Wednesday evening and we had to go directly to the hospital to get on antibiotics. However I wasn't actually in active labor. I was dilated to 4 cm at my last doctors appointment about a week earlier so we had thought my labor would go pretty fast. Wrong. We spent the evening dozing as much as we could. My doctor waited to give me Pitocin until 5 am hoping that I would go into labor on my own, but my contractions were still not coming very often even though I was then dilated to 6 cm. Thankfully, my doctor also waited until I could get an epidural before she increased the dose of pitocin. So by the time I got the epidural and the full dose of pitocin I was at 7 cm. Three hours later Grant was born. His umbilical cord was wrapped around him like a candy cane and was around his neck twice causing his heart rate to drop pretty dramatically in the last 40 minutes of labor. He was blue and not crying when he came out but the doctor never seemed worried. She rubbed him down until he started responding. He's done great since.

We didn't have a name firmly picked out when we got to the hospital. But we started 'trying some on' to see if any fit. The name Grant had actually gone down on my list before the hospital because having a Garrett and a Grant could get confusing even for me. But after trying several names out Grant was the only one that Jeremy and I both thought fit him.

He's doing great. I've had a couple of long nights but over all he's doing well at night. My parents have been here for the last week and have pretty much taken care of (along with Jer) all child care (besides Grant), cleaning, dishes, cooking, and laundry. Many wonderful people from our ward are planning on bringing meals after they leave. We are truly blessed to have this sweet little person enter our family. And even more blessed to be surrounded by many giving and thoughtful people.

Thank you to everyone.