Jude Carter Duncan; 9 lbs. 13 oz.

If anyone has ever delivered at Hoag hospital you know how fabulous it is. One of the pictures is our view from the Labor/delivery room. The whole experience would make anyone who lived even 50 years ago in disbelief. In a small way I feel like I cheated nature. I was induced after all on Monday. I had mixed emotions about it having never gone into labor on my own I sort of wanted to experience it. My lack of patience, discomfort, and depression won over and I decided to go ahead and give my body the extra help it needed. Luckily I did because he weighed 9 lbs. 13 oz.(Zoe was late and weighed 8.2) The doctor had to shimmy his shoulders out of me. Seriously my mouth dropped when I was told how big he was. Anyway, I had been having contractions for 5 days prior to being induced so when they hooked me up to the pictocin nothing felt different. In fact the anesthesiologist came in to give me my epidural and said,"you don't look like you're in pain". I wasn't. My nurse recommended I get it because she thought I would go fast as soon as my water broke. I listened to her and she was right. The whole thing went so fast with out all of the sweating and moaning I so often see on A BABY STORY on TLC. The recovery is phenomenally easier than with my first. I wonder why many of us have to go through the total "but kicking" with the first child? Anyway, I am just really grateful and I am able to enjoy this beautiful little/big addition to our family. We decided on naming him Jude Carter Duncan. This name wasn't really in the running my whole pregnancy and at the hospital I really thought he looked like a Wynston( Wyn for short) but Jude won out. So far, I think it fits him and Zoe says his name sooo cute. He was really smashed in me attributing to his bruised face(what do you expect?). So these pictures are maybe more than some people want to see but they are what we have for now.