Andrew's birthJust wanted to provide a quick run down of how Nancy's birth went (the next 3 days will be explained in a separate post): August 25th - Nancy and I arrived at the hospital at 10PM. Nancy was told earlier in the afternoon that she would be induced because the doctor worried about the high enzyme levels in her liver. We checked in and 10 minutes to 11PM the inducing process began. We were told it was a two step process involving 2 different pills given to Nancy 4 hours apart. Nancy relaxed and attempted to go to sleep while I started watching Juno before falling asleep on the couch. By the way, the labor and delivery room was freakin' nice! August 26th - At 2:45AM, a nurse was examining Nancy when her water broke. I was slightly awake and decided to go back to sleep because we were expecting a long labor. Approximately 2 hours later I heard Nancy in an extreme amount of pain. I woke up, asked her if she was OK, and held her hand through some pretty powerful contractions. Nancy decided to call the nurse and ask for an epidural (sp?). The nurse came by and said the doctor was on his way. She checked Nancy and noticed that she was 6 cm dilated! All 3 of us were shocked seeing as how Nancy was only 2 hours into her labor. The doctor arrived, hooked Nancy up with an epidural, and 30 minutes later Nancy was feeling better... so much better in fact that she was able to sleep for a couple hours. Around 7:20AM the nurse came in and told us that she would be changing shifts. We were all sad because she was the same nurse that had helped Nancy at 1AM Sunday morning when the doctor asked us to come in to have some tests taken. The nurse told us that Nancy will for sure be giving birth before noon and that she would come by to visit us later that night. Our doctor came in around 7:30 while the nurse was preparing for the shift change and told Nancy that she was 10 cm and +2 dilated (not sure what the +2 means but I know that 10 cm means the baby is ready to come out). At 7:46AM, Andrew Calixto Magpayo is born after only a few pushes by Nancy. The delivery was nowhere near what the movies show where the mother is screaming bloody murder and is ready to break the hand of the person that she is holding. The nurses and doctors were great and Nancy did a wonderful job getting Andrew out. So as of 7:46AM on August 26th I'm a father. I was worried of course that he didn't have all of his toes or fingers or that there was some sort of defect. I cut the umbilical cord, looked him over, and didn't see anything physically wrong. I'm so proud of Nancy and happy as can possibly be to have a son to pass on my family's name. I know my dad will be happy that the Magpayo name will continue on. To this day I have Babyface's "The Day" stuck in my head. It gets me a little emotional everytime I think of the chorus. I'll post about my experiences the days following my son's birth later today (or tomorrow... depends on how much time I have lol). Right now, I'm running on about 3 hours sleep after my baby boy had to be fed every 2-3 hours because of his Jaundice. It's ok though... I know it'll be worth it just seeing him grow and molding him from a boy to a man =). | 
