The Holtonian

Ryan Elliot Holton

For those who haven't heard, Ryan was born 2/22/08 at 3:29 and was 8 lbs 10 oz. or in other words a chunker like his old man.

It was quite the ordeal again. Janelle went for the Vbac (Vaginal birth after cessarian) and had the best and only doctor in town performing, Dr. Tate. And we did just about everything under the sun to get this baby out the old fashion way but he got stuck like Anna-Kate did and after his heart rate went up Dr. Tate called it and we got the C-section.

Janelle went into labor on Tuesday night, early labor mind you and contracted all day wednesday but due to the big consignment sale at the Cobb County Fair grounds she just crossed her legs and shopped. It was kind of funny because people kept calling and I had no idea where Janelle was, so I of course told them when they asked, "How is Janelle?" "Oh she's fine she's just in some ditch giving birth to Ryan."

So she labored all day Tuesday night and all day Wednesday and all day Wednesday night. Thursday morning the contractions were pretty intense and close together but we stayed home all day until about 3PM when we decided we should pay her doctor a visit. We drove all the way from Norcross from our house in West Cobb, he said, "Go to the hospital (Crawford Long downtown)." So we went all the way back to West Cobb to deal with Anna-Kate, then drove downtown... and all in Atlanta Traffic and also a wonderful rain storm. It was terrific.

Then all night Thursday she labored with some seriously intense contractions. However, after essentially three nights without sleep she was getting a little tired. The doc suggested an epideral to allow her to get some rest. So we did that, and then she labored all day Friday, started pushing around noon, pushed for 2 hours and the little booger wouldn't come out.

So we got the C, and had a bit of scare because he didn't cry when he got pulled out. Basically he didn't breath on his own for about 10 minutes (he was bagged), they put him in NeeQ and kept him in there to do some tests (looking forward to that hospital bill--the underwriter in me is cringing). Everything was in the end fine but it was pretty scary there for a while.

So after a less than ideal birth, Janelle's recovery has gone about just as smoothly. Her incision got infected and she got a staph infection in her nose from the Hospital... fun times. Shes fine now but her incision still hurts like a mug.

The Happy Family

Anna-Kate's new friend... FYI she calls him "Rynan"

He's doing great, he sleeps well, which is a blessing. Anna-Kate, well she's moving a million miles a minute. We appreciate all the prayers and support.

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