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All About Tyler:

Name: Tyler Ryan Black
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Time: 10:34 pm
Weight: 7 lbs 13 oz (3544 g)
Length: 20 inches (51 cm)
Apgar Score: 9

He is a happy and healthy baby, sleeps a lot, is very mellow, likes to look around, likes to make funny faces, and so far only cries when he is hungry or cold!

The Full Story:

It all started at 1:30 am on Wednesday when Laura woke up with bleeding and contractions. She continued having irregular contractions throughout the night and into the morning, but was still able to sleep for the most part.

The contractions continued throughout the day, and when the bleeding increased, we called her doctor to get his analysis of the situation. He recommended we go to the hospital so that they could do a quick check of everything.

We arrived at Davis County Hospital in Layton at 4:30 pm. The nurse checked all of Laura’s vitals, and she was fine. Her water had not yet broken, but she was fully effaced, and had dilated to 2 cm. The nurse then called the doctor to give him an update, and he said that she was in the early stages of labor, and if Laura wanted, he would come and induce her right then and there. We felt good about it, and luckily we had brought the “hospital bag” with us just in case, so we decided to go ahead and take the plunge.

They started her on pitocin at 6:10 pm. This caused the contractions to be more frequent, and much more intense. We worked together to get through the more painful ones. At 7:45pm she received an epidural, which completely got rid of the pain, but still left her with limited movement in her legs, and a soft sensation of pressure during contractions.

At 10:30 pm she had fully dilated to 10 cm. The doctor suited up, turned on the stadium lights, and she began pushing. On the first push/contraction, she moved the baby’s head almost completely into the birth canal. His heart rate began to drop very quickly to dangerously low levels, so the doctor grabbed the vacuum, and on the next push/contraction, our little boy popped right out!

I got to cut the umbilical cord, and then held Tyler while Laura passed the afterbirth, which came out all in one piece without problems.

It was a very intense and exciting experience for both of us. Laura will be quite sore for a while, since she had severe (3rd degree) tearing of the skin and muscle tissues from a certain somebody’s big head. The doctor used four complete sutures to sew her back together.

We stayed at the hospital for another day and half, and the nurses took good care of mom and baby during the initial recovery period. They answered all of our many questions, and were very friendly. Laura enjoyed the hospital food, and we enjoyed a candlelight dinner the night before we checked out. She even got a scalp massage with hair cut and styling at the on-site spa! We also came up with his name while at the hospital, since we got tired of calling him “baby”.

We are very happy and grateful to have little Tyler with us!

What we once thought was the impossible has finally happened! In-N-Out Burger has arrived at the Wasatch Front! It’s our favorite burger joint, so when we saw on the news that they had finally opened, we immediately jumped in the car.

The nearest location to our home is in Draper, which is a 60 minute drive roundtrip. When we got there we chose to go for the drive-through, since fitting inside the restaurant looked next to impossible. We waited in line in the drive-through for 55 minutes before finally getting our meals: Laura had a cheeseburger (animal style) with fries and a neapolitan shake, and I had a double double (animal style) with fries (w/a side of spread) and a strawberry shake.

For me, it felt reminiscent to my first post-mission In-N-Out meal. An delectable explosion of fresh flavorful goodness! We engulfed our food in record time and immediately regretted not buying more. We’ll just have to go again another day. In fact, just writing this blog post is making me hungry….In-N-Out anyone??

Testing consists of each student demostrating the curriculum for their current belt to the Grandmaster, in order to qualify for advancement to the next belt. Here’s a video of me at testing: