Hospital to Home

Good Morning!

Fingers

and Toes

Swaddling

Hospital Food

Gramma D. and Max

Getting Ready to go Home

Monkey Suit

Welcome Home Max!

Proud Grandparents

Couch time

Birth Day - August 20, 2010

7:30am - Just getting started

5:30pm - Labor

7:30pm - Epidural

2:00am - Nurse Joy prepares for the baby

2:30am - Time to push

Ole by my head, Mom and Nurse Joy each held a leg

3:45am - Dr. Callan comes in after 2 hours of unsuccessful pushing.

Baby's positioning is causing him to be stuck so forceps are used :(

3:52am - Max Mateo CaveLie is born!

(unharmed with one pull)

Daddy cutting the cord

Placenta

Max getting cleaned up

Apgar Score of 8 out of 10

1. Activity and Muscle Tone 2. Pulse 3. grimace response (reflex irritability) 4. appearance (skin coloration) 5. respiration (breathing rate and effort)

7lbs. 11ozs. and 21 inches long - perfect!

After an hour of stitching I FINALLY get to hold our baby

Thee MOST beautiful thing I have ever seen.

Now time for some sleep.