He's HERE!!!

Well...the big day has come and gone. Our son, Sawyer Forbes Caufield, arrived on 9/03/08 at 3:09 am and he is officially one day old and close to 9 hours old. WOW!! I am in amazement of the whole birth thing! As I was sitting on my couch on Tuesday night discussing with my mom about water breaking, I felt a little gush of something and then I ran to the bathroom and there was a BIG gush of something and my water broke. We called Mike up and he accused me of peeing my pants!! Can you believe that? We rushed around and collected everything and then rushed to the hospital. When they checked me, I was 4-5 cm dilated and starting to have contractions. I was admitted to the hospital. I tried to be the martyr and walk the halls and maybe get a shower to control the contractions but after my walked the halls I screamed "epidural!!!" The epi was so effected that I didn't feel anything, thus making me useless for pushing. At 1:00 they turned off the epi and then I felt them! All in all, I pushed for about 3.5 hours and only 45 minutes were effective. In the end, our beautiful son was born and all the pain was well worth it! He is doing well, eating and SLEEPING all the time! He is not fussy unless people are poking and prodding him or unless he is extremely tired and we are forcing him to wake up to eat. He is beautiful and we are richly blessed by God with this miracle. Thank you so much to everyone for your prayers, thoughts, and well wishes these past 9 months. Keep us in your prayers as we start this new phase of our lives together!
Love to all!
Mike, Stacey, and Sawyer Forbes Caufield