Zaiden Thai Le

Zaiden is finally here. He is so adorable, and we are so in love with him. He melts my heart everytime I look at him.

Here is a little summary of how the delivery went. I had lost hope that he was going to come early or even on time and thought he would be here late but he surprised us and came a day early. I had been out shopping with my mom on Saturday morning and then took the dogs on a walk, throughout the walk I had begun feeling slight pains, but didn't think much of it. Once I got home they continued and became more and more uncomfortable. Danny didn't think it was really the start of labor and neither did I. But after a couple more hours of contractions at home, and I could not take the pain anymore we decided to go to the hospital. I was in so much pain, but did not want to get there and have them send me home. We got to the hospital around 4:30 on Saturday, and they decided to keep me and gave me the epidural right away, I felt SO much better after that. I had to have antibiotics for four hours before I delivered so we just waited for time to pass. The doctor then came in and broke my water and I started pushing. We had a slight scare with his heart beat dropping they were going to do a c-section, but it came back up, and after an hour of pushing he was here.
He arrived at 10:31 pm, weighing 6 lbs and 8 oz, 20.5 inches long. Here are some pictures so far:

Just waiting around for him to come
Weighing 6 lbs 8 oz

Zaiden with Uncle Johnny

After his first bath in the hospital.

We were finally in our room about 1 am, it had been an exhausting day, but I still did not sleep very well. We both could not believe that he was actually here and he was ours.

Sunday in the hospital.

We spent two nights in the hosptial, and the second night he slept in the nursery so we could try and get some sleep, and they brought him to me when he was hungry. It was very nice to get some rest before we came home.

Here he is Monday morning for his first car ride and heading home.
Things have been going pretty good at home as we are adjusting to our new lives as parents, Danny has had the week off of work and it has been so nice to have him home with me.

We have had to go back to the hospital the past three days to get his blood drawn because his billirubin level was a little elevated, but just got word that everything is good now and he doesn't have to go for photo therapy or get his blood drawn anymore.

Sleeping with Daddy

Zaiden hanging out with his cousins Brody and Kai.

Thats all for now, I will post more pictures later.