Baby Bryce is born

From Jeff (because Amy is currently tired and nursing Bryce)

We are excited to let you know that Bryce William came into this world early Tuesday morning (3:34 am to be exact) weighing a solid 8 lbs. and 7 oz. He measured 20.75 inches long. Amy was admitted to the hospital late Monday afternoon after her morning doctor's visit which showed her at 4cm. Because of more consistent contractions, they told her to go to the hospital and start monitoring. After some very long walks she progressed to 5cm and our room was booked ... we were staying for Bryce's eventual arrival.

She can fill you in on the details later - after a couple hours of pushing (he definitely wanted to come out on his terms) Bryce arrived with a head full of dark hair. No complications, just a long day and night. We were transferred to the post-partum room around 6:30am and finally got to sleep a little that morning.

Amy's parents brought Landon to meet his new baby brother Tuesday afternoon. Landon was so excited when he walked through the door. He immediately wanted to touch him and hug on him. It was a very sweet moment that we'll all remember.


Bryce is a healthy eater and sleeper. He really has the calm temperment like Landon did as a baby (we hope that continues). He has pretty good lungs when he's hungry and/or cold, so he lets us know about that, but he quickly calms down. We're not sure yet who he really looks like, but each hour he looks more and more like Landon did, so we'll go with that for now.

So, we'll head for home Thursday morning and start life as the Wood foursome. Should be interesting but we think we're ready. God has blessed us with two beautiful boys and we're looking forward to them growing up together. Thanks for the many prayers and warm wishes. Amy will return to normal blogging very soon -- actually her blogging will probably pick up since she's off work for a while. I've enjoyed my time here on this blog, but I shall retire at the top of my game. Thank you and good night from the Woods!!

10/29 is the day!

Just a quick update. If Bryce doesn't get here before, I'll be induced at 8am on 10/29. I am SO glad to have an "end" date! I'm still thinking positive thoughts that he might come earlier than that, but we'll just have to wait and see!!

No Baby Yet...

Just thought I'd let you know :) I really will try to get some new pictures up this weekend. It's going to be a busy one, so hopefully I'll have time. I took a much needed day off of work tomorrow to hang out with Mom. We're meeting with her decorator for the new house in the morning and then having birthday lunch. Who knows what the afternoon will entail...a nap? :) Or we might go poking around at the mall. We'll just see how big my ankles are by then!

Saturday is the Tech/A&M game, so that pretty much monopolizes at least Jeff's afternoon and then we have a BBQ at church. Sunday the ABF gals are throwing me a shower and then we're going out with the fam for birthday dinner.

Then, Bryce is free to come after that :)

34 Weeks +/-

I saw Dr. Bakos yesterday. I'm dilated 2cm!! YAHOO! At least something is happening! Now I realize I could be this way for the duration, but Dr. Bakos said she thinks we'll have a baby in a couple of weeks. J got the car seat ready to go and it's in the Tahoe. All the bags are packed, so now all we need is a baby :)

Dr.'s Visit

Yesterday was an "in the office day" for me downtown. I hadn't been there an hour when I started having some strange cramping pains. Anyway, nothing I couldn't live through, but since they were still coming and going an hour and a half later (and after some encouragement from Mom) I called my Dr. and went in to see her. I really lucked out because Wednesday is her surgery day and she's usually at the hospital and not in the office, but she just happened to be there. Heart rate is fine, my blood pressure was sky high...but more because I was upset than anything else. She checked me and said that Bryce had dropped a lot and his head is what's causing me the pain. Since I've never had a "second" baby I guess I didn't realize that you don't have much cushion down there as you did the first time around and tend to feel the baby a lot more. Anyway, since Bryce is SO squirmy, I'm sure I'll have these cramping sensations from here on out...who knows how long that will be. I was encouraged to know that he's getting ready for his big day. She said nothing else is happening right now, but I go back Monday so we'll see where we are then. I'm officially 4 1/2 weeks away!