Welcome baby Lucas

If you havn't already heard, baby Lucas has arrived. He was born Oct 20th at 5:30am, 7lbs 3 oz 20inch long. We were induced on Oct 19th because I was preclamptic (high blood pressure). After pushing for 4 hours (2 hours one time, a break, then 2 hours again) they decided to do a c-section. Poor Lucas had a swollen head because he wouldn't fit. Once the got him all cleaned up and bathed they gave him back to me to feed him. Well he "fell asleep" as I was trying to nurse him and I asked the nurse if he should be such a sound sleeper. She came over and saw he wasn't moving enough because he wasn't breathing. She called a code on the phone and then about 20 people ran into the room and the curtain was closed around me so I couldn't see. They had to go get Dave because he was moving our things from the labor room to our room. They got Lucas breathing and then took him to the nursery. There he stayed all week. He was hooked up to monitors to check his heart rate and breathing because when he would get in a deep sleep he would stop breathing. Finally he stabilized, got taken off the oxygen, and iv. Then we were able to take him home on sat with an apnea monitor. It has a band that goes around his chest that monitors his heart rate and breathing. If his heart rate goes too high or too low or if he stops breathing an alarm goes off and we have to stimulate him to make him breath. Knock on wood the thing hasn't gone off yet. They also put him on caffeine in order to help stimulate his system. We are doing all of this for a month and then if things look good he can come off of both. So needless to say it has been touch and go, but it is all worth it for such a beautiful boy.