Pictures of Jack

Big boy - 8 lbs., 7.5 oz!

Footprints!

First sponge bath

Full head of dark hair

Bright eyed


More pictures and details on his birthday to come!

Jack Thomas Clayton has arrived!!!

Jack Thomas joined our family today at 12:45 pm. He was finally delivered via c-section after 12 hours of labor. Jack weighed in at 8 lbs. 7 oz, he's 21" long and wears a mens size 8 shoe. Mom and baby are both doing well.

Sincerely,
Fletch's Dad

Giana Caroline Marciano

Alison had her baby yesterday after being induced on Friday. Beautiful little Giana weighed 6 lbs, 11 oz and is 19.5 inches long!Giana and Fletch will get to meet in October when Al and Giana come to MO to visit - can't wait to meet that little doll!!!

Now it's our turn! We should be getting a call sometime tomorrow morning telling us it's time to come in and get induced. Can't wait!!

Baby Neu

Jill had her baby yesterday! Baby Maggie was born at 5:19pm, weighed 8 lbs., 9 oz and was 20 inches long.

Congratulations to Bobby, Jill and big brothers Aidan and Connor!!

Baby Marciano is still working on entering the world. Will post after she arrives!

Happy Birthday Lily!

Today is our niece Lily's 1st birthday! They had a birthday party for her last weekend, which was a lot of fun. Today I met them for lunch at Steak N Shake. Hard to believe she is 1 already! Looks like she and Fletch won't be sharing a birthday after all, which is the only positive thing about me still being pregnant. :)

A couple pics of the birthday girl from today:
In other news, both Alison and Jill are currently at the hospital on the way to delivering their baby girls! I will post when I have news!

Also, I'm not sure why the baby ticker at the top right of the blog is stuck at one. Surely I'm not the only woman to require -1, -2, -3, etc on this thing!!

All Set For Monday!

I talked to my doctor yesterday, and we're all set to be induced on Monday. He said I am Mommy #5 on the list for that day, so the hospital will call me when they're ready for me and then we head on in to get this process started.

I'm relieved that I have an end date, but of course still hoping for something to happen sooner.

Time will tell...

No Update

Well, I went to the doctor yesterday after my raging hormones caused an unwarranted meltdown, which led to a tearful call to the doctor's office, which led to him seeing me yesterday instead of today (nice, I know). Surely I'm not the first emotional pregnant woman he's seen (or at least that's what I'm telling myself).

Anyway, there is no change from last week; I am still 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Bummer. He tried to "get things moving," so we'll see if that works. If it doesn't, he is going to schedule me to be induced either Monday or Tuesday (I should find out for sure which day sometime today). I'm crossing my fingers that something happens on its own before then, but I guess waiting one more week is not the end of the world.

I have been feeling LOTS of tightening in my stomach and random aches and pains in various parts of my abdomen and back, but still nothing super painful and definitely nothing consistent.

This waiting game is by far the hardest part of pregnancy if you ask me. All of the unknown is getting to me and causing me to be an anxious wreck and crabby to boot! I don't know if I've ever been this crabby in my life! Hopefully before we know it, we'll be holding this baby in our arms and all will be right in the world again.

I'll keep you posted.

The 70s

First, I don't have a baby update - just patiently (or maybe not so patiently) waiting.

My parents are preparing a room for Fletch, so they got a bunch of stuff out from when I was a baby, including some toys, a toy box, etc. The best thing that they saved was the "punkin seat," which they apparently used to carry my sister and me places. I'm sure it used to be white instead of yellow, but even still I cannot imagine carrying a child in this thing!!It's amazing how far baby stuff has come! Rest assured, Grandma and Grandpa have no intention of carrying Fletch in this fancy carrier.

Test Tweet

First, I must say that I hate that a posting to Twitter is referred to as a "tweet." How lame.

Anyway, it has come to my attention that when/if you sign up to follow Jason on Twitter, you also have to check or select something that allows him to send you messages to your phone. Therefore, I asked him to send a test message tonight. If you did not receive a message from him about 2 minutes ago, then yours is not set up properly.

I promise this is the last "tweet" you'll receive until it's go time (which will hopefully be VERY soon)!

We Have Progress!

We went to the doctor this afternoon, and we finally have some progress! I am about 1 cm dilated and 80% effaced. Yay! Of course, this really doesn't mean much because you can walk around dilated for weeks or you can go into labor without being dilated at all, BUT I'm excited because it tells me my body is getting ready for action!

It's hard to believe I'll be 39 weeks on Thursday - my due date is only 10 days away! Nutty! My doctor asked us what we want to do if we get to August 13 and haven't had the baby yet (i.e., do we want to induce?). I told him although it kills me to say it because we're SO ready, we'd like to wait it out and avoid induction if possible. We'll give Fletch that weekend to see if he/she comes on his/her own, but I'm guessing after that, the doctor will want to induce (he doesn't want me to go past 41 weeks). Cross your fingers that Fletch comes before that - preferably like tomorrow! :)