Michael Hawk

Michael Hawk Phipps arrived at 7:11 a.m. on June 16.  He weighed in at 9 lb 12.3 oz and was 21 3/4 in. 

I went into labor at 1:30 a.m. on the morning of the 16th, a Wednesday.  My water started leaking.  I laid back down for another hour and started having cramping and contracting.  I realized about 2:30 a.m. that I was going to have to head to the hospital, so I woke up Mark.  We were planning on going to the hospital at 8 a.m. anyways as I was scheduled to be induced.  So we grabbed the kid's bags, loaded everybody sleeping into the car and took off to drop them at Aunt Kim's and Uncle Bill's house.  We arrived at the hospital at 3:15 a.m. and my contractions and pain level were pretty severe.  My blood pressure was high, I was dilated to a 7 and was immediately admitted.   I will leave out most of the other details, I got my epidural at 4:30, my doctor walked in the room at 7:05, and at 7:11 out came Michael with 3 pushes.  Mark and Kim were there.  It was a nice light mood, really fun delivery, great to have my own doctor there.  At one point I was ready to push, and Mark and Kim were both at my shoulders, I said aren't you guys going to look?  They said no, and so the doctor goes, well, maybe I'll close my eyes too.  It was funny.  We decided to name him Michael Hawk after he was delivered.  We had decided on the first name, but only picked the middle name between that and one other after he was born.  Michael was beautiful and huge when he came out and they put him on my chest.  I spent two nights at the hospital and he was very easy there.  He is a great baby!  More in a future post on the other kids' reactions to Michael.