Baby Jack

So I'm pleased to announce that Jackson Perry Lee was born at 10:35 a.m. today. Both baby and mommy are well and recovering from an exciting morning. Here's the story...
We left this morning at 10 after 6 and began the whole induction process. At 9:15 Christie's O.B. came in and broke her water and she was 75% effaced and dilated to a 3. We figured we had some time and in about an hour, our nurse came back in. She saw that Jack's blood pressure had dropped and when she checked Christie, she found the umbilical cord instead. The cord had prolapsed which basically means the cord was coming out before the baby. Because of this, they needed to do an emergency C-section. Everyone was calm in the room and I put on my white suit of awesomeness ready to go. When he got into the hallway, all of the nurses and doctors began to run yelling for everyone to get out of the way. Suddenly this calm routine procedure seemed not so routine. We made it to the O.R. despite one nurse falling flat on her face in the hectic run and brutally bruising her knee. She was in and the baby was out, but very gray and not moving or breathing. The respitory guy finally (in what seemed like forever) got him breathing again and then they put him in NICU to recover and regain his blood supply. Because his cord was pinched off, he was losing blood out of the umbilical cord, and not getting any back. Now, he is pink and doing really well. In a matter of minutes they weren't so worried about him anymore, which was a relief.
Jackson latched on for the first time very easily and ate like a pro. He is quite and calm and very cute. Mom has had the obvious pain and is exhausted and handled the stress much better than dad. From what the doctors told us, everything worked out perfectly in that situation and we feel very blessed that it happened that way. If we would have been out of the hospital when the water broke, we would have been in trouble. Because Christie got her epidural just minutes before the emergency, they were able to dope her up on the way to the O.R. which saved several minutes and Jackson coming out as well as he did. Also we had the best (and we seriously mean the best) anethesiologist ever. He stood next to us during the surgery and told us what was going on and kept comforting us throughout. He also was very kind and gentle with Christie and she said it was the best epidural she's had yet. Our nurses were all great and sacraficed to help, besides the bruised knee, Christie's actual nurse, Lori, sat on the bed through the hallway and held Jackson's head off of the cord, while he was still inside until the could pull him out, which I think was a heroic act. All in all, we felt our Heavenly Father with us and feel thankful that he allowed everything to work out. Well, you've been reading long enough now here are a few pictures below and we'll add some more later, when we get them. Enjoy!