July 27, 2008 - TILDEN IS BORN!!!

Hi Everyone!!!

Yhep. Tilden has joined us. He is absolutely perfect. Tam was such a trooper. And both are doing fantastic!!!



Here is a link to more pictures:

http://picasaweb.google.com/tguttenberger/20080727TildenBorn


The story...

Tam and I were in Costco and sampling all that we could. :) Tam had to stop a couple of times and work through a couple of contractions. Didn't think anything of it at the time... But after we got home Tam thought about it and decided it was time to "test run" our timing of contractions - ha! we all know it wasn't really a test... She told me to get out the watch I'd just gotten the very same day just for this purpose. Sure enough she was 8 min. apart. Couple of hours later and we were 5 min.s apart and the doc told us it was time to check in to the hospital and get a monitor involved. A few hours later and we had a doctor asking if we wanted to do it "now" or see if things quited down a bit by the morning. Tam said "now" and that was that. WoW!!! What a trooper - not sure I could be that strong...

Tilden, still breach, got us all into the OR and before we knew it, we heard his cries after the perfect C-section. Doctors and nurses all checked him out and scored him the highest APGAR score CO gives!!! Though Tilden joined us two weeks ahead of his original due date, the doctor that inspected him says she wouldn't have known that he hadn't carried to full term by just looking at him.

His stats: Born 11:36 PM on 7/27/08. 7 lbs 6 oz and 19.75 in. APGAR score 8.9.

So now it's snooze time every chance we get. Feeding every couple of hours and trying to recover from a long night last night. But Tilden is stubborn about loving his sleep - already seeing some Tommy in him... :)

Tommy is in Tucson and bugging Mom for more text messages with pictures. He'd never tell me, but I think he's tortured by not being here to love on his new brother. (I've never seen a kid better with babies and youngsters than Tommy.) ...Soon, Kiddo.

All are welcome call. We are sleeping as much as possible, but we turn the phone to silent when we're unavailable. So don't worry about calling at the right or wrong times.

Love to All... More later.

Oh, and things look like they are on the verge of being under contract for selling the CO house...!!!