Baby Jonah is home!
I had high hopes of being able to live blog the birth of my baby, but unfortunately the hospital’s firewall prevented me from doing so. I was able to twitter the entire day, but only those following me were privy to such exciting details. I’ll do my best to give you a summary of the day.
Right now I’m sitting at home, trying to let it sink in that I now have four beautiful, healthy children. What did I do to deserve such blessings? Taylor and Nathan are playing with friends, Andy’s outside playing with Noah, and Jonah is sleeping in the bassinet next to me. I already did the right thing and chose a nap over anything else when I got home from the hospital. Right now I feel lucky to have found time to blog. I’m hoping Jonah sleeps long enough for me to finish this post.
I wrote my last post about an hour before leaving the house Saturday morning. I don’t think Andy believed me that I was in labor. I don’t blame him. I hardly believed it myself. After all, it was 19 days before my due date. Just because you want your baby born by a certain date, doesn’t mean you can hope it into existence. But I felt like God had given me the scripture “you have not because you ask not,” which was honestly the only reason I believed labor wasn’t false. Although consistent, the contractions didn’t hurt at all. I had two reasons for going to the hospital when I did. First, I hoped my doctor would feel sorry for me and break my water. Second, when I was in labor with Noah, everything was fine and then went into “my head is spinning with pain” within about 5 minutes, so I wanted to prevent that from happening again. We dropped off our three kids at my mom’s house around 9:45 am.
I arrived at the hospital shortly after 10:00 am. They checked me and I was still only 1 cm, but the monitors did confirm contractions were consistently 3 minutes apart. They officially admitted me around noon when I was 4 cm. As per hospital policy, I had to wait on lab results before getting my epidural. I finally got one somewhere around 1:30 or 2:00 and everything was wonderful again. I experienced pain for less than an hour. Praise the Lord!
After receiving my epidural, my doctor broke my water. By 2:45 pm, contractions were 2 minutes apart but I was still only 4 cm. Andy and I were both starving. I couldn’t eat while in labor, so I sent him to get something to eat while he had the opportunity. I think he left right at 3:00 pm.
At 3:29, they checked me and I had progressed to 8 cm and was 100% effaced. That was fast! I texted Andy and told him to hurry back, but he was already in the parking lot when he got my message.
Just 8 minutes later, at 3:37, I called the nurse and told her I felt like I needed to push. She checked me and, sure enough, I was 10 cm! We waited for my doctor to get to the room before I started pushing. With one contraction and 4 pushes, he was born at 3:46 pm! He was 7 lbs 2 oz and 20 inches long (exact same measurements as Noah).
Jonah is so awesome and I feel beyond blessed to have been given the gift of another child. Thank you, God!
Less than one hour old, holding Mama’s hand.
Another baby, another brother. Been there, done that. Sigh.
Today Nathan said to his friend Lauren, “See, I told you he was even cuter than Noah!” Oh, goodness. How do you respond to that? Ha ha!
I can’t believe I have three sons!
Noah isn’t using words, of course, but he can’t stop smiling at Jonah. He’ll be a great big brother, too.
Jonah was more alert than I was early this morning!
He is so precious!
Awake time doesn’t last long!
Daddy has another clone!
Watch these two videos. Doesn’t Jonah look like Noah?!
Jonah (day 1):
Noah (day 1):
he’s BEAUTIFUL!!! congrats, you guys.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!!! I am so happy for you guys.
By the way, how do you produce kids that look exactly the same every time?
He totally looks like Noah. You’re going to force me to have another baby, he’s just perfect. I can’t wait to meet him (on Friday! I’m making you something delicious). He would have been over 10 pounds if you had gone to 40 weeks!
He is beautiful! What a precious little boy!
He is GORGEOUS and wow, you have FOUR children…
You were bred for this. I’m so excited for your family.
Hello Lori and Andy so glad to hear you are home with your children.I hope your stay with us at the FBP was a good experince. We sure enjoyed having you as a patient, Lori you cracked me up!
love seeing the photo’s of all your children they are beautful. Wish you all the best
Paula Palladino CST
He is gorgeous. Oh my gosh he’s beautiful. Congrats!
Congratulations Lori and family! Jonah is awesomely gorgeous! My favorite photo is of Taylor holding her new brother. The caption is hilarious! God has truly blessed your family!
Wow! I nearly cried! What a great family you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think he looks alot like Nathan. Glad you’re home. Can’t wait to see him. Little Button… xoxo
What a beautiful baby. Not the kind of “beautiful” that only a mother could love, either, but truly beautiful. I’m really happy for you!
And I DO think he looks a lot like Noah!
Good Job Momma! Sounds like you got the birth experience you were looking for, on top of the perfect timing! GOD is so faithful! Jonah is so handsome! There is no doubt that he is a Saczynski! Congratulations!!
He is Perfect Lori!
Congratulations Lori and family!!! Jonah is just so precious! God is good!!!
Congratulations Lori and Andy!! Boy, Jonah is sooo precious! AND I can’t believe you had time to post these pictures, blog and videos! What a great Mom you are!!
I miss you bunches and sure wish I could hold Jonah.
I’m so happy for your family! Such preciousness – even more reason for me to come to the panhandle soon! Love you guys!
He’s beautiful! Congratulations!!
Lovin these, he is just beautiful, & I can’t believe you have 3 sons either! I got teary toward the end reading… precious! Congrats again, mama!
He is perfect. A true gift! : )
God Bless you guys!
I was crying about 2 paragraphs in. He is amazingly beautiful, not that the rest aren’t also but just breath taking. Thanks for sharing… MISS U ALL!!!
He is seriously one of the best looking newborns I’ve seen. How precious and beautiful! It sounds like you had a pretty amazing experience. Congratulations mama!!
Taylor looks just thrilled!
I’m crying over the beauty of it all. He’s perfect. I’ve never seen such a “ready to be here” looking newborn.
Taylor’s expression is freaking priceless. What a shot. And Noah petting the baby is the cutest thing ever (besides the baby himself). The cute of it all is overwhelming actually.
I love you all. Welcome Jonah, you are a stoked little boy!
A very special family, as well as Mom and Dad, we are so happy that Jonah is here to join the family.
He’s gorgeous! Makes me want just one more…well… almost, I’ll just have to get down there and enjoy yours! Hope you are all doing well, sounds like things are great! Congratulations!
Wow – I didn’t even know you were pregnant again!! 4 KIDS!!! That’s wonderful! Congratulations.
We think a 3rd one might be in the stars for us. We’ll see.