God decided that he wanted our family to have a baby that shared a birthday with Jesus. What a great Christmas Gift for our family. Mike thinks he will hate having a Christmas Birthday. But I assure the little guy that I will make it a point to make his birthday just as memorable as his brothers and sister.
He came into the world at 3:05am on Christmas Day. It was an incredible experience far faster than any of our other babies. We walked into the hospital at 2:45am and he was born 20 minutes later. It went so fast the nurse was actually encouraging me to allow her to deliver the baby. I was not comfortable with this at all. NOT SURE WHY-- nurses deliver babies all the time. But I just kept telling her that they were not ready for me to deliver. I insisted that the resident be called. It all happened so fast. Two minutes after they called the resident I started asking if he was on his way- "Is he walking here right now?" In between small talk about her working on Christmas and asking about her children the Resident showed up and we delivered the little guy five minutes later. It was absolutely crazy. The funniest part was that the nurse was a certified midwife and I totally refused to deliver the baby with just her present. I was actually hugging the bed as if she was going to force me to push the baby out. Mike thought it was funny he even took a couple of pictures of me hugging the bed.
It took us over twenty four hours to name Nolan. We actually polled anyone who wanted to participate to on five different names (peyton, preston, Cale, Nolan, and Gavin). Gavin actually won but we decided we really liked Nolan the best since Gavin and Garrett sounded a little similar.
Nolan was 7 lb 12oz at birth 21 inches long. He left the hospital weighing 7lb 1 oz. He was just a skinny little guy since he was so long.
We are thrilled to have a new addition to our family and looking forward to the insanity that it will bring.
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