Grayson John Malloy

Well it's a BOY!! He arrived on February 19 at 11:19pm. He weighed 9lb 1oz, 21 1/2 inches long. What a big boy, Brady actually was 9lb 1oz and was 22 inches long, so Grayson was almost exactly what his daddy was.

Here is a quick story of how Grayson arrived. I started having contractions at 1:00am on Friday (19th) morning. They started at 2 minutes apart right away. I labored at home until 3:30am. We arrived at the hospital at 4am. Contractions were 2 minutes and I was dilated to 1cm. My water started to leak after about 2 hours of being there. At about 10:30 I progressed to 4cm. At this point I the contractions were pretty intense, so I opted for an epidural. They broke my water at 2:30. This did nothing to make me dilate any further. They administered pitocin at 4:15pm to see if that would help dilate more, but it also did nothing. At about 8pm my epidural wore off because I had stopped pushing the self-medicating bolus thinking I was getting sick from it. At this point they started to talk c-section, and that was about 10:30 pm. At 11:00pm they checked me and I was still at 4cm. We were done. They prepped me for a c-section, Brady donned the surgical garb and we were off. Grayson was born at 11:21pm and the reason he couldn't come into this world the vaginal way was because his head was cocked to the left and stuck. Maybe due to his size and the fact that there just wasn't enough room in there for him to right his self, caused the c-section. I got up into the room about 11:45pm and got to meet my son.

We have been home for 5 days now. Grayson is a very mellow baby and hardly cries or fusses. I feel very fortunate. My milk is slow to come but they insist that is because they loaded me with tons of fluid for the section and before the milk comes in they say I have to loose this fluid. (Mind you I already had a fluid issue before they even talked c-section.) It is a little better every day, but my legs and feet are still abnormally large. Grayson had a little bit of jaundice so we have had to feed him every 2 hours to get rid of it. Today we went to the hospital and his numbers were good and that is gone. Now I don't have to wake him up at night ...or day....to feed every 2 hours. He can eat when he is hungry. Too bad I still have to pump every 2 hours to keep the milk coming...but I think he might sleep a lot more tonight. We will let you know.

Here are a few pictures of this healthy boy.