An unexpected surprise ;)

Today was going to be a normal day in the Otte home getting ready for Santa to come to our house, when my water broke.  Yes you heard me right, my water broke.  After all that it really was a blur, but this is how it went.  My water broke, Paul and I both frantic and trying to get everyone dressed and ready to go spend the day with my sister and her family, and my parents.  Got to the hospital where they hooked me up to IV's and gave me patossin (i do not know how to spell it) to start the contractions.  Luckily the anesthesiologist was close by so I got the epidural immediately.  From that time on it was a wait for this baby to come out.  The longest I have waited was 6 hours for my babies, so when we were going over the 6 hours I couldn't believe that this baby was not here yet.  Especially with the Pitocin.  After a little bit the nurse realized that all of my water had not broken so that was not allowing the baby to come, so they broke the rest and within 30 min the baby was coming.  Unfortunately the epidural had worn off just enough for me to feel the baby, but it went fast.

Waiting for the baby to come

Ky and mommy meeting for the first time

Getting cleaned off by the nurses

Ky Dietrick Otte was born on December 24th, 2012- 6 pds 15 ounces and 19 inches long.  He was 3 weeks early but that is OK, because that was the best Christmas gift we could have ever gotten.  After I delivered him he had to go and get put on oxygen because his little lungs were not functioning properly.  I am so glad that I was other wise detained, because I don't know if I could have been o.k. with him on oxygen.  He spent most of the day and night under supervision with the nurses, so I got a lot of rest while at the hospital.

Ky shortly after coming into this work, on oxygen