I guess I should back up a bit for all those who don’t know the whole story of baby Noah. Here’s the short version. Since Adrienne was 6 days past her due date she was induced, which was supposed to start Monday morning at 7am, but due to bed availability we didn’t get there and started until 2:10pm. At about 4:15pm they started the IV and Pitocin running and her contractions were pain free until here water broke at 6:10pm. From there on out we both practiced the breathing and labor preparation stuff Adrienne learned from class. She followed her plan to go epidural free until about 2:10am when after hours of pain and failure of the baby drop down any further due to her tenseness, she gave in and got the epidural. That allowed her to relax enough for the baby to come down far enough to start pushing at 3:40am. After almost 2 hours of pushing little Noah came out at 5:20am. It wasn’t natural early labor we were both hoping for but a baby is a baby and since he’s so cure now we figured he just needed more time to get that way.

Well Adrienne is still at the hospital now but doing well, we were both excited about coming home today but since Noah had a temperature (99.4F)….or what the hospital considers a log grade temp they wanted to keep him one more night. The plan is to get up tomorrow, have Noah circumcised, go to a “homeward bound” class and then get home by 2pm. The doggies have been crazy at home all alone the past few days but they will live, each time I get home to feed they run around for 10 minutes trying to find Adrienne first, they miss her you can tell. One of the nurses said to bring home a blanket the baby had been sleeping in so the dogs could get used to the scent, I’m not sure how to tell if that worked but oh well we did it. The deck is just about completed on the
back of the house now, and things are finally seeming to come to an end. . . everything except the nights of lacking sleep but that’s to be expected. Well I know the pictures on the last blog i wrote were HUGE but I was in such a hurry to get back to the hospital I didn’t even check them, I think you’ll find these much nicer to look at. The verticle pictures are still larger but just click on any photo again after it’s open to close it and get back to the site. I finally got a few of his eyes a little open too, I guess because of his age he’s keeping them shut alot. Enjoy! Can’t wait to show him to everyone and pray we can go home tomorrow as planned! JUST CLICK ON THE THUMBNAIL PICTURE TO ENLARGE TO A NORMAL SIZE NOW

Love,
David, Adrienne & Noah

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Well I’m not going to write long because I gotta get back to the hospital with Adrienne and the baby but here are some pics, 8lbs 12oz, 21 1/2 inches, born 520am 6/26/07, big feet hands and lots of brown hair.

Here’s how our babies (potnetial) birthday went so far…

0600: call the hospital excited for induction, they say no beds available, they say to call back after 11a. I then listen to Adrienne complain for the 2 minutes it took me to fall back asleep….hehe

1114: call the hospital and they say hopefully they will have a bed available around 1530 today so call back at 1445. We then ate breakfast and complain some more, then we pray about the situation and stop complaining.

1138: The plan is to run a few errands and get Adrienne a high carb lunch for energy….which she will hopefully need TODAY! Otherwise we will just keep waiting until they have a bed available. Keep praying and if there is no update by tonight we are probably at the hospital!

Taken 6/6/2007

I thought my next blog would be about the baby but since that hasn’t happened I thought I would update you guys. So, Adrienne still hasn’t had a baby yet, it’s not that there isn’t a baby in there, it’s pretty clear looking at her belly there is a baby, possible 4 or 5 inside there. Or maybe one very fat baby I’ve been taking some pictures and will update them when our internet works a little more consistently but for now I’ll just put in a little note about the baby. Since Adrienne was due to have the baby months ago (ok two days ago) and still hasn’t had the little guy she has an induction scheduled for Monday at 7am, which means the baby could come anytime between now and Tuesday, although we are hoping for RIGHT NOW! Tim’s birthday is Tuesday so who knows there might be two Schmoyer boys with that birthday. It is the 26th right Tim? Anyway, we also had another doctor visit this week, another ultrasound, and a non stress test of baby, everything checks out perfectly which was good to hear. We feel ready for the baby now, the house has been cleaned several times in preparation for baby, the deck we had built is about 5 hours from being completed, our bags are packed, batteries charged and the car seat all set up in the car. I’m pretty sure I put the car seat in correctly, although the hardest part was finding the 2 English written pages in the 150 page instruction manual! So hopefully this will be the last blog until we have pictures of the baby and something exciting to write about. Until then I’ll just continue to hang out with my beautiful pregnant wife who is just glowing with joy, energy and life in preparation for birth! Ok that last part isn’t true but for the sake of my marriage I won’t tell you how an overdue pregnant woman in 90 degree weather with acid reflux, a bladder the size of a pin head, a 10lb baby inside who seems to constantly be running on a treadmill , an aching body unable to bend in any direction and unable to take any medications…feels That’s just the “appropriate for writing” problem list, there are so many more issues that will hopefully all be gone come Tuesday! Welp, hope all is well with everyone else and pray for Adrienne on Monday!

I’ve changed my site a bit because I didn’t realize I had so much personal information present, the photo page requires a password now but just post a comment and i’ll email it to you, or call and I’ll give it to you. I figure with a baby and new house and all it’d be safer to keep the pictures to people I know. Hope all is well and I’ll talk to you later.