Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Tanner Benjamin Mower

On Tuesday, August 17 2010, Tanner Benjamin Mower was born. I had a doctor's appointment in the morning and my blood pressure had been a bit high for the last week. Since I was so close to my due date the doctor told me to go to the hospital right then to get induced. It was a crazy hour trying to arrange child care for three other kids. I had people set up to help, but a lot were too far away or didn't answer their phone.

It was 2:00 when I was all hooked up to the IV and the pitocin started. Around 3:00 I got an epidural making everything wonderful and he was born at 5:40 after pushing through one contraction. It was an easy labor and delivery and I am feeling really good now. Here are some pictures of baby Tanner.


Tanner weighed 7 lbs. and was 19.5 inches tall.




Jacob, David and Madeline are very excited to have a new baby in our family!




All ready to go home!

Ben took a week off of work and it was so nice and fun to have him around. Today he went back to work, bummer. Tanner is a mellow baby and sleeps a lot. I hope he continues to be an easy baby because the rest of life(the other 3 kids) is a bit chaotic!

10 comments:

amydear said...

Congrats! I hear you on the four kids being chaotic. I am really looking forward to school starting, but not sure I can wake up on time. Tanner is super cute and I love his name. I hope you enjoy him.

Jared & Tracee said...

Congrats! Wow, it really gives me modivation that I can stick these last few months out. I have been getting nervous for some reason, but it helps seeing your beautiful baby!!

Lora said...

Wow I didn't realize you were so close to having him! What a sweet little thing! How great that your labor/delivery went so well. He looks darling!!

Christy said...

oh michelle, he is so cute! congratulations!! i think he looks a lot like madeline from the pictures. what a great name and i am so happy for you that your labor and delivery went so well and was pretty painless. so awesome! i look forward to hearing how all is going with four kids in the house. you're a supermom!

ps- do all your boys have benjamin as a middle name, or is little tanner the first to be named after his dad?

Aja said...

Crangrats!! He is a very cute Baby!

Lenice said...

Yea, so glad he is here safe-and-sound! You look so happy.

Cerris said...

Congratulations on the birth of your beautiful baby boy Tanner Benjamin.

HN said...

Beautiful family!!!

Camille said...

Congratulations Michelle and Ben! What a darling little guy. Glad things are going well.

Elise said...

I'm super late on the congrats but I'm happy for you guys! You'll have to let us know how it is with 4!! Tanner looks like he's going to be very well taken care of by his three older siblings (they all look like they've totally grown up since I last saw your blog!...so cute!)

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When's the next race? You guys are awesome!