Joseph Evert Johnson is here!!

We are excited to announce that our baby boy is here safe and healthy. However, there was some excitement before his big day. I went in for my appointment Feb 4th and had an ultrasound. They estimated him to be 9 lbs 6 oz right then, so the Dr estimated him to be 11 lbs by 39wks. They also saw that I had too much amniotic fluid and sent me to specialists at Maternal Fetal Medicine.

So we went there, 2 wks later and they got 9 lbs 2 oz. LOL, considering he should gain .5 lbs a wk, not too confident in ultrasound right now. And I had gained 10 more cm of fluid to total 30cm. That's double what I should have. Oh, and he was lying sideways when 2 wks ago he was head down. So after checking over and NST'S (non stress test) we made sure he was healthy. But he kept moving to different positions.

So we went in for a scheduled C-Section Feb 27TH at 7:30. I was always hoping he would move head down, but he never did. However things went smoothly and he was born 8:05 am 9 lbs 4.5 oz 20.5 in long. He was wisked away, I only got to kiss his face, and didn't see him for 2 hrs. I hated that. I wish I could have held him skin to skin and nursed him right then like I did like Addie. But Joe was with him the first hour and got to feed him some formula (his blood sugar was too low, but I believe that's because I has to fast for 12 hrs). So that was special for Joe. They also bathed him, too. I wish so many things could have been different, but I am grateful he was alright.

He has brown hair and deep blue eyes. They remind us of Addie so he might stay blue eyed. I was told by a lab tech he had the most perfect head. I guess that is a positive about having a C-Section. He is very loud when he is unhappy, but has a sweet spirit. He just likes to be held and rocked ALL of the time.

Grandma Hebdon (my mom) came up to help with Addie and between her and the Bare's Addie was in heaven. Our visitors at the hospital were Grandma Hebdon, Stephanie, and Jeff. They brought me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. Joe also brought a beautiful bouquet of flowers and some balloons. It was fun to have visitors. With Addie we lived far away and mom was recovering from her back surgery.

We went to his 2 wk Dr appointment March 13th. He is almost free of jaundice, yah! He gained back his 10 percent weight loss. He also was circumcised,  poor little guy. The doctor said they have never had a circumcision go so smoothly. Joey slept through most of it.  He did such a great job for the visit. What a good boy!