Our New Arrival

Dax Michael Stocks

December 8, 2012

7:59 pm

8 pounds 7 ounces

20.5 inches

Dax is finally here and we love him so much!  The night before Dax was born I started feeling contractions and got so excited! When I laid down to go to bed the contractions had stopped and I was pretty bummed out.  The next morning I started feeling the contractions again but they were very light so I decided to look up ideas online on how to help labor progress and one of the ideas was to bounce on a ball.  So I headed downstairs and pulled out our exercise ball which I am pretty sure has never been used up to this point, and I began to bounce on it, it didn't last long before Kai commandeered the ball for his own fun.  So I decided to bounce him up and down on the ball since that would also make me do a bouncing motion.  Sure enough my contractions picked right up!  My family was all headed up to our house to work on our upstairs that morning, so I texted my sisters Julia and Alisha and told them I think I am going to have this baby today.  They were all pretty excited.  My Dad and few of my brothers as well as Ben began working on the upstairs and by 11:00 am I told Ben we should probably head over to the hospital.  My dad and brothers stayed behind and continued to hang sheet rock the rest of the day, they are amazing! I invited Julia and Alisha to come along and called my Mom to tell her we were headed to the hospital.  My sister Jamie wasn't able to come up because she had other activities going on with her children.  I never thought I would have anyone in my room other than Ben but I actually enjoyed having their company.  I am happy it was just me and Ben for Kai's birth but I also enjoyed having two of my sisters and my Mom there for Dax.  We got to the hospital and they said they would keep me.  Every time I laid down my contractions would slow down so I tried to keep walking around.  A mid wife came in and broke my water, but it didn't feel the same as when my water broke with Kai but I didn't worry too much about it.  After my water broke with Kai my labor progressed really quickly and I gave birth just a couple hours later.  With Dax labor was going so slow and despite my epidural it was painful and uncomfortable.  While I was delivering Dax my water broke...that's right, when the mid wife came in she never fully broke my water which would explain my extremely slow progression.  While that was pretty annoying I was just so happy to finally have my sweet boy in my arms.  I fell in love instantly.

Ben and I could not decide between the names Crew and Dax until after he was born.  I looked over at my sweet baby as they were weighing him and I just new he was my little Dax, so I told Ben and he agreed.

 

 

First Bath

The night Dax was born my parents brought Kai to the hospital to see his new baby brother but Kai was all tuckered out and was asleep by the time they made it there.  The next morning my parents and Alisha brought Kai to the hospital, when Kai walked in the room he literally gasped.  I have never seen him do anything like it before.  I am pretty sure Kai fell instantly in love as well.  He takes such good care of his "brudder Dats".

First Family Photo

Getting dressed for the first time.

Ready to go home!