Introducing Jay Christopher Dixon!

Here's Topher! He is so freaking adorable!! We love him so much!! These pictures don't even do him justice, come see him in person and you'll see how gorgeous he really is!

Jay Christopher Dixon (we call him Topher) was born Tuesday, Feb. 3 at 9:49 am. He weighed 8 pounds 15 ounces and was 21 inches long. We went to the hospital that morning to be induced cuz he was a week late, but what started as a normal induction quickly turned very scary. The doctor broke my water and started the pitocin drip around 8:45 am. Our first clue should've been how little water there was left, hardly any at all. Then my mom, Jay, and I were just talking, hanging out, watching my contractions on the computer next to us when suddenly 3 nurses ran in saying the baby was in distress. They turned me on my side, then my other side, then somehow there were 6 nurses in the room, then somehow my dr. ran in and said we needed to do an emergency C-section right now. They shove a catheder in me (ouch) and wheel me off. Jay, my mom, and I are crying and just freaking out but it happened so fast. Next thing I know I'm in a tiny room filled with nurses and doctors and someone is putting a mask on me telling me to take deep breaths while the doctors are holding scaples next to my belly and yelling they're ready to go. The only thing I remember saying was "get him out, get the baby out" cuz I realized this was a life or death situation. Then I passed out and 7 minutes later they pulled baby out and he screamed and cried just like a normal baby.
About an hour later they woke me up and I was super loopy and in TONS of pain. The rest of the day Tuesday was really rough. LOTS of pain. TONS of pain. Let me tell ya, emergency c-sections are no fun at all. But I'm just so thankful that they got my baby out safe and in time. One doctor told us that if another 5 minutes had passed Topher wouldn't have survived. SCARY. So I'm just so grateful that everyone was there to help and did their jobs quickly and saved my baby. Think of the scary dangerous episodes of those TV shows like House or ER... yeah, we lived it.

So Topher is here and beautiful and we are recovering fine. I am still in the hospital right now blogging from Jay's laptop. TONS of pain still, but I get to take lots of pain killers so it helps. Can't get out of bed, go potty, or anything like that on my own... it's crazy. Jay is completely awesome. He is such a great husband and dad. He is so dang cute with Topher! And he's taking great care of me. Today was better than yesterday, and I'm hoping tomorrow will be better than today! If everything goes well, they'll send us home from the hospital on Friday morning.

I know I'm just rambling now but I wanted to get you all an update while I had a minute. I'll be sure to include lots more details about our hospital stay and family and friends and Tophers "eating habits" and all that fun stuff in later blogs. Thanks for all your support and friendship during this crazy scary painful wonderful time in our lives.