Meagan is a momma.

One of the hardest things to do is wait for the news of how the story will end. Not quite a week ago my best friend's daughter checked herself into the hospital and was induced. The bride and groom in the gorgeous picture above (very top of my blog) started their family early into their wedded bliss. Shortly after their return from their honeymoon Meagan and Michael found out they were going to be parents. She was due in October. So we all set our clocks for mid-fall.

Meagan had several complications a long the way and her doctors began to worry for her health, so the plan became to keep Breydon in as long as possible without endangering mom or baby. And so we waited.

On Wednesday, 8 months to the day that we sat at Boat House and enjoyed rehearsal dinner and waited for the events of the next day, we waited for Meagan to have her baby. It was a new experience for me to get labor and delivery updates by watching face book! At about 12:45 a facebook post reported Meagan being at 1 cm. My first thought was....oh my goodness, this kid is really having a baby. I'm not sure what I thought was going to happened once she got to the hospital. Maybe that they'd hand Breydon to her. My second thought was....this is going to be a long night and there won't be news for a while. So I slept. Until the phone rang telling me Breydon was here. Meagan was fine. Despite being 6 or 7 weeks early the little guy was 5 pounds 6 ounces. Other than the normal 34 week preemie issues he was doing very well. I figured it was just about time to get up for work and then I looked at the clock. It wasn't even 2:30. 2 pushes and 11 minutes of hard labor. I think it was the first thing that was "easy" about the pregnancy.

Breydon continues to do well and pass mile stones, and barring anything unexpected we have a better idea of how the story ends.

I'll let the pics tell the rest of the story.


Proud dad!