Here's the baby

And now, introducing Kaeden James Doshier!!!

Kaeden was born at 7:12 a.m. on Friday January 8th, 2010. At the time of birth, he weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces and was 21 inches long. Also, his head has a circumference of 15 inches. Basically, for a first baby, he's enormous!!

Autumn was in hard labor from about 4 p.m. Thursday until Kaeden was born. She has been in the hospital however since 8 p.m. on Wednesday because her bag of waters ruptured. The heavy labor didn't start until almost a day after we got here. Since Autumn was in labor so long, her body and mind were very tired. She eventually got an epidural to help her cope with the difficulties of her labor. She liked it. Unfortunately, before we could get the epidural, we had a space of about 30 minutes that we had to wait. She was very uncomfortable and very much in more pain than her exhausted body could handle so the nurse gave her a pain medication called Stadol until the epidural could get there. Well, in short, Autumn doesn't do well with Stadol. She got incredibly loopy, couldn't remember the few hours before the meds, and eventually thought that the blond haired Anesthesiologist was Legolas from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She didn't like it.

So, after pushing throughout the night, Autumn had severe backpain, even with the epidural in, and we all tried to figure out why. The nurse called our doctor and had her come in while we upped the epidural meds. When the doctor got here, she said, "Well, if your back hurts, let's have this baby." So, we intensified the pushing and our doctor did everything she could to get our baby out, even though his head was crooked in the birth canal. Eventually we got him out with the help of a very small vacuum, and everything turned beautiful. However, Autumn had some tearing that happened while our huge baby came out of her. The doctor got another doctor and had to start stitching right after the placenta was done doing its thing.

Kaeden was measured and weighed and got all of his tests back with passing numbers, and Autumn got a blood transfusion after the stitching and a whopping 40 over 20 blood pressure. We will be in the hospital until Sunday at the earliest but it is nice because we can both sleep while the nurses take care of him every now and then. Autumn didn't get to leave the bed all day on Friday, but now she has been on two walks, and is doing wonderfully. Our baby is very calm, and all of the nurses like him.

I am going to rest now, and I apologize for not updating much, but the labor process was incredibly difficult and I was near Autumn's side for almost all of it, even when she told me to shut up and threw stuff at me. Otherwise, I would have updated more often. If any of you tried to come and see us and met our bodyguard (nurse) and she told you to get out of here, she was only being a good nurse and doing as we asked her. We were both on the point of passing out all day yesterday. Also, if any of you tried to call us and we didn't answer, we were busy, so sorry.

Thanks to all of you that had Autumn and our family in your good thoughts over the past couple of days, and we are excited to show off our baby to everyone, when it isn't so cold outside.

I was unable to post a picture here, but there is one on my account of Facebook, so go there.

Love to all of you, and I hope that things are well for you,

The Ashland Doshier family

Alright, so I have no time at all to post anything, because Autumn needs me, but the doctor broke her water and then she started having heavy contractions. After a while, she was tired and stressed about everything. In the end, at about who knows when Autumn got an epidural!! She is happy now and chillaxin'.

Here is to me posting some pictures

It's baby time

So no news yet, except that Autumn is going on Petossin (spelling??) It is Thursday January 07 at about 11:40 a.m. I will update later, but there is no WiFi in our room so I have to go around the hospital and find a spot to update anyone.

Wish us luck

Jared