Our little Peanut Face is here!

Cade Darren Litchfield (dubbed Peanut Face from the womb)
Born at 11:56 am Thursday February 19th 2009
7 lbs 10 oz, 19.5" long

He's FINALLY HERE!!! And I'm FINALLY not pregnant... though I may still appear 4 or 5 months along... dang it.

Anyway, after having contractions for more than 24 hours, they were finally consistent enough to head to the hospital. We arrived there at about 11:30 on Wednesday night. My contractions were getting more and more painful by the minute.

Here I am BEFORE the epidural. I would like to say that I was posing for this picture, but apparently this is actually what I looked like. I was having major back labor and wanted the epidural ASAP.

This is me AFTER the epidural :) Fake cheesy smile! I felt MUCH better! Best decision I ever made (which I made LONG before I was pregnant)! Since I got a total of maybe 45 minutes of sleep the night before, I was exhausted. Once the epidural started working I went to bed. Darren had a little bed rolled in for him to fall asleep on too!

The next morning, my mom and Bailey came to the hospital and brought Darren some breakfast. We kind of just hung out while I tried to keep my eyes open. After a while, my dad surprised me by walking into the room! He was out of town on business, but changed his flight so he could be there when the little guy was born! What a wonderful treat!

Once it was time to push, everyone but Darren cleared out of the room and the nurse came in. I pushed for about a half hour and the nurse said STOP PUSHING! He was coming quicker than we expected so we just sat around and waited for the doctor to show up. Once she arrived, I pushed a couple times and he was out! We had a little scare when he came out with the cord around his neck. Unfortunately the doctor had to cut it in the middle initially to get him out safely, but Darren got to make the final cut later. I had always imagined having the baby placed on my chest right after he was born, as I cried tears of joy and forgot about everything else going on. But when Cade was placed on my chest, his body was limp and his arms flopped lifeless at his sides. They quickly took him off of me and rushed to get him oxygen so he would start breathing. Everything was normal within a few minutes. It's amazing, the instant love you have for your baby. He's everything we could have ever hoped for!

We fall more and more in love with him every day! He makes the cutest faces, especially when he's sleeping! We can't stop staring at him and I don't think you'd be able to catch us without a smile on our faces! It's crazy to think that we're PARENTS and we have a BABY! It's still very unreal, but feels natural all at the same time.


Below is a slideshow of some of the fun pictures we've taken so far.

We just HAD to post this video of the cute little squeal Cade makes as he works his way into an all out scream. We can't help but laugh every time he does it :)