Eli Michael Bohn

Eli Michael Bohn was born December 3, 2009 at 6:20am. He weighed 7lbs. 7oz. and was 20 inches long.

The hospital did not allow children to visit due to the crummy swine flu (thanks a lot dumb ol' pigs). So the kids did not get to see Eli (or mommy) until we brought him home from the hospital, two days later.

Carter's first moments with Eli.

Kate's first moments with Eli

Our first family picture with our new happy addition.

Wendi's Two-bits: First of all, I don't really appreciate how I look in the pictures but oh well. I can be adult about it. The last few days have been crazy. At my doctor's apt on Tuesday I was 4cm and decided to schedule an induction for Tuesday Dec 8th. I still had one shift left to work on Thursday and we wanted to go get our Christmas tree on Saturday so I was pretty content to stay pregnant for another week even though I was uncomfortable and miserable. Anyway, on Wed. night Chad and I were watching Angels and Demons and I was contracting about every 8 to 10 min but that's not abnormal for me so I wasn't too worried. Around 10:30 though, just as I was ready to go to bed, the contractions became right on top of each other and really intense. I was shaking and told Chad it was time to go to the hospital. Then suddenly I decided I really didn't want to have another baby. The thought of going to L&D terrified me! I really love being the nurse and really hate being the patient. I just was not too excited about being in labor instead of going to bed and knowing that I wasn't going to see the other kids for a couple of days made me really sad. Anyway, so once my Mom arrived to be with the kids we headed to the hospital. Once I got there, I felt a little more in control and wasn't crying so much. My friends at work took excellent care of me, I had a great epidural, and I got to the hospital in time to have antibiotics since I was group B strep positive with this baby. My labor was long this time since his little head just wasn't descending. The L&D nurse part of me was starting to worry that maybe he was too big or tangled up in his cord or something but then I quickly changed from 7 cm to completely dilated and he delivered quickly after that. It was so fun to watch him come out and here Chad say, "It's a boy!"

Eli is such a sweet little guy and the whole family is in love with him. Carter told me today, "I love the baby so much. It makes me want to cry." He also said later, "Eli has spit-up on his cheek and it's making me feel like I'm going to throw up."

I really feel the best I have after any of my kids. Just really swollen this time and a little sore but that will get better in a few days. I feel so happy and content and just so grateful that he is here safe and sound.