Babe finally arrives!

Name: Cole Alan McBride Pitzer

Date of Birth: April 20th, 2007

Weight: 8 lbs, 3 oz

Length: 21 inches


After a long night and day of labor, Cole finally arrived Friday night at 9:24 pm... we could not be more enamored (or sleep deprived)...

Mom, baby and dad are are doing well, we will post more pictures shortly!

Here's a link to the hospital's page:

http://www.growingfamily.com/webnursery/babypage_view.asp?URLID=3904121471

Still waiting...

Wow- when you're waiting for a baby to arrive, hours can seem like days...

We met with the OB yesterday and 'hatched' a plan to be induced if this little guy doesn't show up by Sunday.

We will keep you all posted...

Due date no show

Well, our official due date (April 14th) has just about come and gone without any signs of baby!

We had 3.5 solid hours of contractions this morning (5 am-8:30 am) and then more scattered throughout the day... we really thought today was going to be it, but then things settled down a bit.

I personally think he's holding out for nicer weather... it should be in the 60's in Iowa City tomorrow and early next week so keep your fingers crossed for us!

xoxo

Big belly profile

Amongst all of the well wishes and wonderful responses to the website, I have had many requests for pictures of the developing belly!

Hope this picture doesn't frighten too many of you...

Enjoy!

Come out, come out wherever you are!

Hi all,

Well, it's almost time for our little guy to make his grand entrance and we wanted to find a way to be able to share our experience with everyone...

We've created this website so that all of our friends and family can keep in touch with the impending new little babe... we will be able to post pics as soon as he arrives and then add more as time goes on.

Baby is due this week and boy are we ever ready!

The hospital bags are packed, the baby room is ready and we've been regaling Darwin dog with stories of the little one to prepare him for his new housemate.

This past week has been filled with many 'false contractions' that have us thinking we are ready to rock and roll... the most recent bout coming every 15-20 minutes or so (lasting ~ 1 minute each) with that pattern going on for about four hours at a stretch. At least we will have had some practice when the time truly comes to make the anticipated trek to the hospital. ;)

Many thanks to everyone for all the encouragement and support throughout this crazy journey- the best is yet to come...

Love from the prairie,

jodi, mark and babe