Brighton's here!!!

Ladies and gentlemen of the blogging world, in behalf of my beautiful wife that is still at this moment in the hospital, I bring to you spectacular news!  Brighton was born!!!!  

Allow me to break down the story.  It was Heather's wishes to have this baby on 8-8-08 and Heather gets what she wants.  Like she has posted before we went to the doctor on Tuesday and she was dilated to a 3.  That's all she needed to hear, this baby was coming out on the 8th.  Yesterday afternoon we made a trip to Walmart to purchase some Castor Oil.  With much coaxing from her sister and others, Heather was determined to give her child the coolest birthday ever.  Last night while I was away at jiu-jitsu Heather dropped in 4 tablespoons of Castor Oil into an 8 0z. cup full of Sunny D and chugged away.  When I returned home she seemed in a pleasant mode and had not yet received punishment from her choice of induction.  Heather fell asleep around 11 and I managed to stay up to watch Americas Best Dance Crew (I'm such a sucker).  I fell asleep around 12 only to find myself awakened nearly an hour and 15 minutes later.  "Clifford, I thought I pee'd my pants but I couldn't control it.  I had to change my bottoms and everything!"  At that moment we both new it was on.  Within minutes she began to have contractions every 3 minutes for the duration of a minute.  We called up a friend to come watch Corban while we rushed to the hospital.  

Upon arriving to the hospital we were greeted with immediate response.  My wife was in a lot of pain and I wasn't the only one noticing it.  Shortly after getting Heather on the bed the nurse checked her cervix and informed us she was dilated to an 8 and was completely thinned out.  By this point Heathers contractions were every couple seconds and she was yelling at the nurses in pain to "call the doctor and get me an epidural!"  10 minutes later and still no sign of the doctor the nurse checked again and declared that Heather was ready.  Heather had reached the point of no return.  She was going to give birth the ol' fashion way.  Heather continually had the urgency to push but was told to hold it until the doctor arrived.  20 minutes from the time we arrived to Heathers room the doctor show up, indentation along the side of his head from the pillow he slept on and all.  With 12 grueling pushes the baby was out.  Around push 9 the doctor had to ask Heather to calm down because she was turning into an animal and was going to hurt the baby if she continued to push the way she was (I don't blame her one bit).  The baby came out for a minute not breathing.  The doctor said she was just shocked from the labor.  The nurses gave her oxygen and within seconds she was fine and breathing on her own.  

It was an amazing birth.  My wife was made to bear children.  "She's got dem child bearing hips, the kind that pop right of socket" (name that movie). So all is well now the pediatrician came in and gave Brighton an exam and said everything looks wonderful.  Heather is taking a nap and relaxing.  She looks sexy as hell for just having a baby I might add.  I picked a good one.  So until we are able to upload the pics that is all for now.