Zachary Andrew Parker was born on November 6, 2003. His original due date was November 13th. It was a Wednesday Morning November 5th. I had a 10:30 doctors appt with Dr. Holmes so I left work and headed to his office. The 2 weeks prior he tried to help induce my labor by stripping my membranes to no avail! We thought we would have another Halloween baby, but, Zachary was not ready. I had preeclampsia, I was very swollen and my blood pressure was high. Dr. Holmes decided to check me into the hospital. I called Jon at his work and he came straight to the hospital. The day I got checked in it was unusally HOT! It was 103 degrees. They started me on pitocin around 11:30. At about 2:30 I was dilated enough to ge my epidural! I am so grateful for modern medicine! For some reason the Pitocin and the Epidural made me sick. I ended up throwing up in my own hair because I was not expecting it. So gross. Around 12:00 am, my doctor had me start pushing. After over 2 hours of pushing Zachary arrived at 2:09 am! It was so amazing. He was so small. He weighed 7lbs 11 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches long. When we left the hospital 4 days later the temperature had dropped significantly. It was 70 degrees out and windy. I felt horrible because all I had packed for him were warm clothes because it was so hot when I checked in. He was such a good baby from the very beginning. At about 3 weeks he was sleeping through the night and was a quiet even tempered baby. We were so lucky to have such a wonderful baby.
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