10 Days Old

On Saturday November 15th at 5:45 a.m. Kieran Conrad Sheridan was
born in the St. Joseph's Child Birth Center. This round was definitely different
from when Adrian was born, and the old adage; "no two births are the same" is true. With Adrian it was late in the evening but unlike with Kieran, Adrian's birth had progressed a lot further by the time we arrived at the hospital. Meaning once we got there Adrian didn't take very long to make his appearance. With Kieran we arrived a lot earlier in the cycle of contractions and therefore spending a little more time in the hospital.

We arrived around 10:30 p.m. got checked in through the triage nurse and then
assigned to a birthing room. The contractions came and went until it was decided at 4:45a.m. to break M's water. Since this was our second pregnancy the odds where that Kieran's birth would go fast. So once the water was broken he was born exactly an hour later. He was born 9 lb., 4 oz. and 21 1/14 " long. While in the womb he had swallowed some a meconium and had to be tended to by the respiratory specialists. He was checked out and once they cleared out his lungs and stomach M got to hold him.

At the hospital in the Child Birth Center instead of staying in the birthing room for the entire duration of your stay, you get moved to a postpartum room for the duration. It's nice especially for M because the bed is an actual bed and not a modular birthing bed. It was a really nice room and all of the nursing staff was really nice. We where there only for a day and a half from Friday night to Sunday afternoon.

So far things are going well, still working out schedules, not getting up until 9:30 or 10:30 a.m. or so. Kieran is such a good baby as newborns go. Unlike Adrian, Kieran will do marathon feedings and then sleep for hours on end afterwards. The timing of Kieran's birth couldn't have been better, because I was able to take off two full weeks with the Thanksgiving holiday at the end of this week. M had actually reached the end of her time at work on the day she had Kieran. She'll be off until the early part of February. We have lots of pictures and they will be posted shortly. So stay tuned!