Well the day has come Hunter Thomas Cummings was born on July 29 @ 9:50 pm @ San Ramon Regional. His weight was 7lb 4oz he was 21" long a true Cummings! (ha ha joke) Labor for me was not that bad ;-) now for Katherine i can't say the same thing , but she handled it with true grace and beauty. She started having contractions on Tuesday night and was up all night long with them, when 6am came along and it was time for her shot of blood thinner. (early on she had developed a blood clot) I was getting ready for work , when i asked if she had gotten any sleep ,she said she had not and was wondering if she should give herself the shot , I told her in my personnal opinion (I've watched a lot grays and hawthorne so i am pretty qualified) I
would not and let's call her doctor, so she did and she told her to go to the hospital to be monitored, so no work for me and off to the hospital. We were there for about an hour and a half when the nurse said that Katherine's doctor wanted to admit her, so i asked her"now this may be a dumb question but does this mean that when we leave here we will be leaving with a baby, the nurse replied " yes you will"! With Katherine on the blood thinners she had to wait till it was all out of her system before she could get an epidural which took about twelve hours so around 4:45 - 5 o'clock the anesthesiologist came in and and gave her what she really needed ,and it made the world of difference. At about 6 pm she was dilated to about 5 cm and they were giving her pitocin which they said could take a while to get her to 10 cm dilated . Well to cut to the chase she started pushing at 9 pm and beautiful little Hunter came in to the world at 9:50pm. Katherine and I were both pretty tired, her more than I obviously but we were both just really over joyed at the baby boy we created together. Our nurse Sharon was a great nurse with over 30 years of experience, she was tough yet encouraging and a great help. I cut the Umbilical Cord and was just so happy for my wife and new son. We are home now and just doing our thing trying to get adjusted. Thank you to everyone for the prayers, texts and the calls, Katherine and I for the weekend will be trying to get some rest her especially,but just wanted the world to see our son.
Love you all!
Billy
