Tuesday June 30th at 12.16 pm local time our son Rick Mannes Jorritsma was born. He weighs 6 pounds 13 ounces and is 20 inches tall. He is of course the cutest little boy on the world and doing very very well!
Dad is proud as punch and looking very well after Rick and mommy.
I went in for a routine check up Monday, but when the Dr noted how far the baby had already come down and that I had dilated over 5 cm (without noticing much), he would not let me go anymore. So we spend the night in the hospital on lots of monitors but with little progress in the labour. Come morning time the Dr decided that maybe the process needed just a little kick-start to get going again. So with a little Pitocin into my iv little Rick made his way out within 2.5 hrs thereafter. Unfortunately the placenta did not follow the same route on its own and after some effort it was decided that surgery was needed. A little after 4pm that afternoon all was sorted and little Rick latched on to breast feed for the first time.
Minutes after birth
the proud dad insisting Rick wears a hat in the 40 degrees celcius Texas heat
Rick is ok with anything really...pretty chill!
and the cutest is the world of course, using his eyes a lot already
The happy family at home
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