Welcome Cade!

Hello family and friends, today was the best day of our lives.  Jess and I proudly welcomed Jacob Cade Alan Lowe into the world!  Now, Cade was in no rush to join us though...here are the events leading up to his arrival.

On Monday, January 3rd, Jess gets the word from the doctors that they are going to induce the next night, Cade is ready and the time is now!  This is very exciting news obviously.  We get home pack all the bags, have our "last supper" as a couple and can't stop talking about how excited we are to meet our man.  All that is left to do is wait for the call Tuesday around 7:00 pm to let us know when to come in.  So we do...and we wait....and wait.....and wait...and finally we get a call around 11:30 pm that there is no room at the inn so to speak - Rex has a packed house and we will hear from them in the morning and come in then. 

At 5:30 am on Tuesday morning, we get the call; be at the hospital at 6:30 to begin the process.  By 7:00, Jess is in the room, with an IV of saline and one of potasin, we are rocking and rolling.  Or so we thought.  Cade is not making a move and Jess is not moving along too quickly.  Around 3:00 PM that day, they decide to go ahead and break Jess's water...it didn't look like it felt great :)  However, this is good right?  Things will speed up, we will see cade by night's end!!  Or not.  They up the potasin levels of things start moving...painfully.  Jess is an absolute rock star though, dealing with the contractions and pain like a champ.  I have never been so proud of her, it was amazing.  But proud does not equal your wife progressing through labor easily. 

However, after about 1 total hour of sleep, around 6:50 am on Wednesday, we get to 9 cm...only one more to go before she can start the "final push"!!  Awesome, Cade is around the corner. 

2 hours later...

9 cm.  Well crap.  By this point, I am barley able to contain my frustration, not at anyone in particular, but that I am looking at my wife in so much pain and am utterly helpless.  It is one of the worst feelings I have ever had.  The doc comes in and gives the word, c-section is a good option at this point.  It will be safer for everyone than continuing to try and continue on the current path.

So a little while later they wheel Jess down, I get in some scrubs, and get called in.  Then, 5 minutes later, at 9:59 AM on Thursday, January 6th, our worlds changed forever, and they changed for the better.  The medical folks took Cade in the other room to get him cleaned up and out, and then let me go in. 

Words could never do justice to what I felt at that moment.  When I was able to hold him, and take him in to say his awesome Mom, it is something that can never be duplicated.

Now, a few hours and few hundred (yes, few hundred) pictures later, we are still in awe.  He is the most amazing creation, and we thank God so much for blessing us with a healthy baby, and a healthy mom.

We miss all our family and friends that we don’t get to see often, Jess and I both will try to keep this blog updated with the happenings of Cade's life, with plenty of pics.  We love you all.

Love,

Tim, Jess, and Cade