Dean Paul Evans was born yesterday at 2:36pm at Evanston Northwestern Hospital. He weighed 6lbs 12oz and was 19 3/4" long. Delivery was by planned C-Section, and the surgery went normally through out. Dean started crying as soon as his head was clear of the incision, which is fantastic in any case, but even better considering the biggest concern was lung development. So far all tests have come back as normal and he got feeding and output figured out.

He's been a quiet baby for the most part and easily calmed when he does get cranky. We're hoping that continues for... oh, about 18 years. So far he's had visits from Grandma Paula and Grandpa Jesse, and from Cris and Steph Olson. We're very excited to have him here at last.

Dean was the name of Nicole's maternal grandfather, and Paul was the name of mine.

His lungs are now in the "transitional phase" according to my OB. She will not deliver tomorrow.

She is going to talk to Maternal Fetal Medicine tomorrow and determine a course of action from here. It may be deliver in 5 days it may be wait 7 days and do another amnio to see where to go.

As soon as we hear anything we will let everyone know.

Well i guess that one of two things it in play here. Either DH and I's original dates (making the due date June 25, not June 15th) were correct all along or he takes after his mommy. I was born 17 21 days early and ended up in the NICU for 10 days because my lungs were nowhere near ready. (Corrected the above per my mother's post. She told me wrong and, well, for some reason I don't remember it very well myself.)

Realistically, even if June 25th is the "real" due date, his lungs should still have been ready today. We would be at 37w1d today. Using their dates we are at 38w4d.

Its a little annoying but each day that passes we get more of the nursery done. We had nothing done a week and a half ago except putting the changing table together.

Nicole and I did a little bit of a photo shoot yesterday to capture the pregnant belly in all its beauty.