The date of Jude's arrival was the topic of discussion several times when seeing my doctor. We had originally set the date of delivery for April 8. Well, my doctor ended up going out of the country for a wedding, so we decided to move the date up rather than move it to a later date because we wanted to have a bit more control considering I was required to take Lovenox shots throughout my pregnancy with Heparin shots twice a day closer to delivery. Because these shots needed to be timed correctly prior to delivery, my doctor suggested April 3. April 3 is Scott Michael's mom's birthday and we really wanted Jude to have his own day. We agreed to deliver any other day besides April 3. We decided on April 1, then ended up moving back to April 8 to allow for further development of Jude's lungs and my doctor's partner would deliver him. WELL.....Sunday night, APRIL 3, at 8:30, my water broke. Scott Michael told me later than while I'm jumping up, yelling that my water broke, and running to tile floor, his first thought was that we had left something in the washing machine and it was going to mildew. I'm really not sure where that came from, but I thought that was pretty funny! We got to the hospital and we ended up holding Jude off until April 4......so he has his own day :)
Jude Michael was born at 12:51 A.M. on April 4, 2011. He weighed 7 lb 3 oz and was 20.5 inches long. He is the greatest gift I've ever been given and even though I can't believe he's already 3 weeks old, I can't remember what life was like without him.
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