Zeta Phi Omega: Introducing Carter John Kelsey

Well, I am thinking the best place to start this very important post is from yesterday morning. As I begin, I will say that I know this post has a crazy amount of pictures, but I jut could not weed them down anymore!

Charing and Scott arrived at the Hospital at 7:30 am yesterday. We all assumed they would induce her right away, but that was not the case. They needed to have twenty minutes of the baby's heart beat before they could even get started. Due to Carter's constant movement, this took several hours. They

finally started the labor medication around 10am. My mom was the first visitor around noon. She was able to set Scott up in a much more comfortable position before heading back to work. Mom's are so great!

At 2pm the doctors decided it was time to move this labor along, so they broke her water. MaryLiz was with Charing and Scott at this point. Unfortunately, Carter was still very high,

so Charing was no longer able to get out of the bed due to the fear that the cord could drop. This led a couple of extremely uncomfortable hours where charing was sitting in a wet bed. Not the highlight of the birth! Boo and I arrived around 3:30, as did big Charing. We kept asking if they could change the bed, and they would say no because she could not stand up.

Well, around 4pm the contractions were constant and very painful. They

came to check the baby and said he was indeed low enough for her to stand, but that she was still 3cm. They did change her bed as she stood, but there was just no getting comfortable. The long day was clearly draining her.

At 4:30, she decided to maybe get some medicine to take the edge off. When they came in with the smallest bottle of drugs ever, we all began to have some doubts about what edge it could possibly remove. At this point, Charing decided to screw all this pain and go for the epidural. In my opinion, although I know the decision was extremely difficult for her, it was the best thing she could have done.

After the epidural, she was able to relax, and her labor progressed extremely rapidly. Liz and Mariann joined us around 6pm, and by that time she was 8cm dilated. Charing was so much more comfortable and everything went great. At 7:4pm the nurse came in to check her, told all of

us it was time to go. As we walked out, nurses were running in. They told us we had about 20-30 minutes before he was born. Oh, were they wrong. We went down to grab some food, and on the way we ran into Marty with the kids. Marty was on the phone with big Charing and told us he was already born!! When the nurses came in, the actually told charing they couldn't even put her legs up because the baby would just slide right out!

Carter was born at 7:10pm. He weighed in at 5lb 14oz and he is 19in long! He has light hair, and indeterminable eyes.

He is so beautiful and we were all so happy to meet him. They let us keep him in the room for about thirty minutes before he was off to the nursery. At this point the starving charing (that's right...she hadn't had a bite to eat since 6pm the night before!!) was able to eat some pizza and drink a celebration margaritta!

At 8pm she was moved out of labor

and delivery and into mother baby, where they were nice enough to give her the largest room because...well, lets face it, we were a posy by that time! Stacy and Kim dropped by to say high and bring in some wine. Boo and I headed out a little later, with a promise the baby would be back soon to keep Charing company.

So, now we really have our new baby boy. He is just perfect and we all love him so much. I know we all cannot wait to spend more time with him and get to see his little personality really come out. We are so proud of you Charing!! Here are some more pictures of everyone with sweet sweet baby Carter.

Charing and Carter a few minutes after he is born