1st Vikings Game

Hannah and I went out today and found Cooper his first Vikings outfit for the game. It made Jason's day. Go Vikes!!

Cooper's 1 Week Appointment

Cooper's 1 week appointment went well. He is back to his birth weight and 20" long. We found his birth mark, it is on the bottom of his foot. How cute! This is one of the few moments where he was awake for the camera.

Cooper's First Bath

Cooper enjoyed his first bath. We had to only duck one time. Cooper has good aim he hits mom every time.

Going Home

Jason got Cooper ready to come home from the hospital. We were expecting a bigger baby!! Cooper is not fitting into the new born sizes. His outfit is a little big, he is cute anyway!! We went home from the hospital on Thursday and we were all ready.

Cooper was out of the NICU by 3:00 pm on Tuesday. It was a long wait.

Cooper James has arrived

Cooper James Rogers was born 8/3/09 at 11:57 pm. He weighed 6 lbs. and 12 oz. and was 19 1/2" long.

I started contractions around 1:30 am on Monday morning and they continued through the morning. I called the doctors office to see if I should come in and the nurse told me they were not consistent and that I should drink some water and lay down and take a nap I was probably dehydrated. I took her advice and the contractions stopped. Needless to say I was not happy. I was ready. So I sent Jason to work.

I woke up from my nap and felt pretty good around 2:00 the contractions started again. I waited until 4:00 to call Jason. At this point the contractions were 20 minutes apart. By the time he got home from work at 4:20 the contractions were 5 minutes apart. We followed the instructions from our labor classes and packed our bags and I ate something light. At 6:00 I had Jason call the hospital to see if I should come in. They did not hesitate and said yes. I was so excited. By the time we got in the car the contractions were 3 minutes apart. I was not so comfortable at this point.

On the way to the hospital Jason asked if it was okay to stop and get something to eat. I said yes it could be a long night. Right, it is our first baby this is going to take a while. It was the longest 5 minute wait for him to come back out to the car.

We arrived at the emergency room around 6:30pm, I was up in triage around 7:00. They checked me and I was at 3cm and the contractions were still at 3 minutes apart. The nurse said you are going upstairs to labor and delivery. The nurse had told me they just sent 4 women home ahead of me. I was nervous that I was going to be number 5. I was very uncomfortable at this point and refused to be put in a wheel chair and walked to my room. By the time we got to our room I was dilated to 4cm.

The doctor came and said give her what ever pain meds she wants. We are going to break her water. After they broke my water I sat in the whirlpool tub for an hour and half. I had to wait for and epidural so the whirlpool kept me distracted. By the time I got out of the whirlpool I was dilated to 8 cm and it seemed like 2 minutes later I was dilated to 10 cm. No time for an epidural. I was not sure at this point how I was going to do it. Two hours of pushing and Cooper arrived.

Cooper spent the first night in the NICU. He was not breathing well when he came out. So they kept him over night for observation. I was able to see him and hold him for the first time around 3:00 am on Tuesday. We are so excited that he is here. We can not wait for everyone to meet him

Week 37

Last Wednesday was the 37 week appointment. The doctor was a little late showing up for the appointment because she was in delivering a baby. She was a little frazzled and trying to get her day back on track. Everything with Shelly and the baby checked out great again. Shelly's 2 cm dialated and the cervix was 70% thinned out. Baby rogers was resting while we were there and the heart rate was down to 131. That was it for the excitement of the week 37 appointment.

Now on to today's excitement. Kari and Aaron had their first baby this morning at 3:30 a.m. Shelly and I got to meet Nolan Aaron tonight. He's a healthy little boy weighing in at a little over 8 pounds. It was exciting and a little scary realizing that it will be us in one of those rooms very soon! It may be sooner than we're expecting. Shelly hasn't been feeling well today and wasn't feeling as much movement from the baby so we were advised to have her get checked out, which was convenient since we were already at the hospital. Our nerves were eased when everything checked out good. They hooked two monitors around Shelly's belly. One measured the baby's heart rate and one measured to see if Shelly was having contractions. The baby's heart rate ranged from 133 -172, and to Shelly's surprise the other monitor was picking up "tightening" in her stomach about every 3 minutes. The nurse didn't call them contractions and didn't seem too worried about it. They did check the cervix again and it's 90-100% thinned so it really could be any day now. They were prepared to keep us there for a few hours to monitor everything but the doctor on call let us go home. So tonight was an exciting one! We'll be back at the regular weekly doctors appointment on Wednesday.