Introducing Zeke Morgan Lyons

We had a baby! In the course of 2 weeks we had about every major event one can experience. Morgan finished school and graduated, my dad passed away, we moved across the country, and then we had a baby. Crazy stuff right there.

Introducing....

Zeke Morgan Lyons

As you can see by the second picture he was 20 1/2 inches and weighed in at 8 lbs 11 oz. So, my smallest baby. And he was born on donut day!! I don't think he could have been born on a more appropriate day, the little chunk!

Now for the labor story. You're welcome to stop reading if you don't care to know all the details.

I started having beginning labor pains at about noon on June 2nd. They were pretty irregular so nothing to get too excited about. For dinner and fun that evening I went out to get pizza and donuts (for donut day) with Jack. We left home at about 4 and by 4:30, the contractions were coming very regularly. We hurried home with our food and tried to get the babies to eat something, we then got them ready for and put them to bed. I told Morgan, during all of this, that we needed to start thinking about going to the hospital and so he called his mom and dad. Just our luck, they were at the temple. So, I called my visiting teacher Alicia Clark and asked if she could come and stay with our kids until Morgan's parents got back from the temple. When she arrived at 7:30pm we hurried up to Memorial North hospital in Colorado Springs. They brought us into the preliminary checking room and I was only dilated to a 4. Sadly they wouldn't admit me until I was dilated to a 6, so they asked if I wanted to walk around for an hour and then they would check again. I said yes, because I have fast labors. So, we took a walk around the labor ward for an hour and it was awful. I am such a wimp when it comes to pain. Finally, they checked me again and I was dilated to a 6. Time to be admitted at 8:50pm. They took us to the labor room and got me all hooked up, I promptly asked for an epidural and they got things rolling. My nurse during labor was awesome. She was nice but tough. A very motherly figure type lady. I'm sad that i don't remember her name. They came in to give me my epidural and I guess I wasn't bending over enough to get it placed so my nurse told me to lean on her. That helped so much. I then settled in as the pain meds started working. My labor slowed a little over the next 30 minutes, so the nurse brought in a peanut pillow, placed me on my side and put it between my knees. After about 10 minutes of being like that, I told I could feel a lot of pressure. She checked me and I was fully dilated, ready to push. I quite like that my body is efficient at birth. After the doctor and other nurses all got settled I was ready and had the baby out in just 4 pushes. He was born and 10:42pm. Weighed 8 lbs 11 oz and was 20 1/2" long.

They got me all taken care of while I cuddled and loved and then let me stay in the delivery room through the night, which was awesome. The kids came and met him the next day.

(first photo as a family of 5)

We are doing well and recovery is going fast. He is the easiest, cutest little squish that there ever was.