That Baby Boy!!!

He came! And lucky for you i'm sitting in a hospital bed bored so you guys get an almost instant update of all things that went into the last 24 hours of our lives!

Here's the quick run down of what happened. For the last 2 weeks I have been told that my body is showing no signs of labor being anywhere near. Because of this my doctors were telling me that I should just plan on going until they induced me. So, I started to plan on that! Well,  last night (Tuesday) I went to bed and about an hour later my water broke! I didn't quite believe it was real so I laid in bed telling myself that I had just made that up. Well, jokes on me... it was very real. I woke up Shaun and we hurried and got things ready to go.  When we arrived, I was checked and found that still, other than my water breaking, there were no signs of labor.  But since my water was broke we were staying. A few minutes later I had my first contraction and it was pretty intense! So, I got some pain meds to help with the contractions and Shaun grabbed his pillow and we went to sleep.

The next morning we work up to still having no signs. The doctors then decided to start me on some medication that would push things along. I was told that they were going make things much more painful so before they started the medicine I received an epidural. I'll tell you what, those things are amazing!!! I wish I still had one! :) After a few hours of no change I ended up falling asleep and was sleeping like a rock!  It felt great! However, next thing I knew the doctor came in saying she wanted to check me then said "your complete, lets have this baby!" I was in such a daze it took me forever to figure out what was going on! Well,  about 40 minutes later our little boy was born!

He looks so much like an Allred it is crazy, especially since Shaun doesn't really have any of the Allred traits! We think he has red hair, surprised? We laugh because he looks like a cross between an old man and then will look like a  grumpy elf most of the time! Depending on when you look at him you will either see Grandpa Bob, Bart (uncle) , Levi or Jetson (brothers). Shaun's mom said that she has pictures of Levi as a baby that would be indiscernible from the ones we took today of Carter

Going into this whole thing we didn't really have a name 100% set. I really liked Conner and Shaun liked Carter. We were both OK with either so we decided that we would just decide when we saw him. Well a little while after he arrived we were trying to decide what he "looked like". I told Shaun that I dont really care so what ever he thinks fits better we will name him. Thus the name is Carter Bradley Allred.

Carter is a short little average size boy weighing in at 7lbs 6oz and 19 inches long. He was also born on his due date at 1:11 pm, pretty cool time if you ask me.  He seems to be a pretty chill baby, he is completely content sitting and looking around, especially if we don't move or bug him. We will be hanging out here till Thursday assuming nothing goes wrong. Little boys seems to be as healthy as can be and I'm just fine as well- if I keep on my pain meds :)

Thats probably all there is to say about little Carter coming to the world. We're pretty excited to have him and are surprised how natural it seems! We also have loved all of your comments, calls and texts saying congrats and wishing us well, we miss being close to family but are blessed to have some amazing friends here that will take care of us until family can make it out!