Connor, Victoria, and I are happy to welcome our new son to the family.
Jacob Ross Woodruff
5lbs 3oz
18 inches
August 16, 2010 @ 7:01pm

Mommy and baby are doing fine!

Jacob and Mommy a few minutes after birth.

Victoria received an epidural about 45 minutes ago and is relaxing now. We both are sitting here with the lights off, sun shining through the opened blinds, and music playing on Pandora.

Very relaxing and a big change from 1 hour ago. She was having some severe contractions thus the request for the epidural. She didn’t have the problems she had during Connor’s delivery with getting the epidural. Her blood pressure is great now and Jacob’s heart rate in a steady 135-145. Again that is something different from Connor’s labor. He had decels quite a bit and Victoria’s blood pressure was sky high (she had to be put on anti-seizure medicine that time).

Connor is doing fine with Grandma…Mimi and Papa will be heading up here this evening…and we all are waiting on Jacob (probably tonight or early tomorrow morning).

Listen to him “knock” on Mommy’s tummy and watch her tummy move a little bit. It was amazing…he did this for about 5 minutes today. I guess that was his way of saying…I am coming!

On Sunday around 1am (Aug 15, 2010), Victoria’s water broke.  We didn’t realize it at the time, so we went back to bed.  She got up about every 30-45 mins after saying she had to urinate.  Later that morning we looked online to see if possibly it was from her water breaking.  So many opinions online, so we called the doctor after consulting with Mimi (and Aunt Sandy).  He suggested we head to the hospital to have them check it out.

So nearly 11 hours after it broke, we wandered into the hospital.  (After taking showers and getting Connor packed and off with Grandma.)

Victoria was having regular contractions of about 30-45 seconds spread out by 3-4 minutes for about 5 hours on Sunday.  Then around 8pm they stopped.  This was soon after she got her dinner…so maybe Jacob was just hungry.

The night was uneventful except for her going to the bathroom every 2 hours.  The sleeping arrangements were not ideal, but again this is a hospital.

Victoria had pancakes and eggs for breakfast (her last meal until Jacob is delivered).  The doctor came in around 11am today and told us since Victoria is at 35 weeks, it is best to start labor to minimize the risk of infection.  Usually they say if the mother’s water breaks that they should deliver within 24 hours.  But we found out that is not always the case, so mother’s can go weeks after their water breaks.

At 12pm they started pitocin and put Victoria on antibiotics due to limit the risk of infection.

Victoria’s blood pressure has been great and she seems to look and feel better than when she had Connor.

We are expecting Jacob sometime tonight or early tomorrow…

Love you guys!

Donnie & Victoria

Dinner has arrived!

Turkey dinner

Relaxing waiting for Jacob

We have been getting ready for Baby Jacob…

• I did a lot of yard work this weekend so that I would be “ahead of the game”.
• Mommy packed her bag for the hospital.
• We went clothes shopping for Connor over the weekend (“sales tax holiday”).
• I finished the rockwall for Connor’s swingset.
• Connor’s been listening to his book on being a big brother.
• Mommy’s all done with her business for a few months!

We can’t wait to you join us, Baby Jacob!

I finished Connor’s swingset this weekend.  I put together his rockwall and with a little help was able to attach it to his swingset.  This evening was the first time he had an opportunity to climb on it and quickly got the hang of it.

He did fall once, but that was because “the monster” was chasing him up it.  Ok…maybe not the smartest idea.  I will let him get a little skilled at it before we play “the monster is gonna get you”.

Here he is…

We’ve started potty training Connor…or I should say he has started potty training himself.  Over the past couple of weeks he has started to show an interest and has been dry when waking up from naps and after going to bed.  So for the last week, he has been wearing “big boy pants” (underwear) around the house.  He has been doing pretty good.  He definitely lets US know that he doesn’t want US telling him when we HE has to go potty.

Mommy or Daddy: “Connor, do you have to go potty?”

Connor: “No.”

Mommy or Daddy:  “Connor, I think you need to go potty.”

Connor:  “Not yet.”

Mommy or Daddy:  “Ok.”

About 5 minutes later…

Connor:  [Pauses for a second and then starts to run towards the bathroom.]  “I have to go potty.”

Mommy or Daddy:  “Great…let’s go.”

He goes and tells us:  “Look, I go potty.”

We give him a lot of praise, kisses, and hugs…then we empty it into the “big potty”.  Connor flushes it and then we wash our hands.

So far, so good.  A couple of accidents but he is really taking to it.

We love you Connor!