Lucas Ja Pemberton

daddy and baby


auntie Jaime holding luke



first family pic...casen doesn't know what to do.




Casen and his new baby brother





luke holding mommies fingers






he scared us quite a bit and had a hard time breathing for a while, but nothing a little suction and oxygen didn't clear up in a few hours, poor kid had a ton of fluid in his tummy and lungs.

~Ja is zachs middle name and his dad's... it is pronounced Jay~

Baby Luke joined our family on Sat Dec 4th @ 5:05 AM, 11 days earlier than he was supposed to, and about five days earlier than i was ready for him...tomorrow would have been perfect :) but i can't complain too much because he has been the best baby and it was the easiest delivery too.
Friday evening my back was hurting me pretty bad and I was having quite a few contractions, but I had been on my feet alot and had been having contractions all week and thought that they would settle down after I took a bath...which I did after putting casen to bed...but they just got worse, around 10:30 I starting packing, because my contractions were about five minutes apart and getting harder. So I told zach around 11 and he started timing them for me, we got all packed and called my mom around 12:30 and my dad came over to stay the night with Casen and we left for Showlow, my contractions were about 3 1/2 minutes apart. we got to the hospital and all settled by 1:30. I was dialated to a 5, and my contractions were 2 1/2 minutes apart, but my water hadn't broken, so as soon as my midwife Wendy got there around 2:00 they broke it for me, after that my contractions slowed down, so they put me on some pitocin to speed them back up...at 3:30 I was a 7 and decided to get my epidural, I was having a hard time deciding because I know a few people who have had bad experiences in showlow with epidurals lately, but I got one and it went great. after I got my epidural and my contractions were coming pretty fast they started monitoring luke a lot cause they kept losing his heartbeat, scared the heck out of us a few times when it took a while to find it, but he did just fine. I think I probably started pushing about 10 til 5, the pushing took like 1 1/2 hours with casen, so fifteen minutes seemed like a breeze. My epidural was great, I still had a lot of feeling in my legs and could move them pretty good the whole time and it wore off pretty quick too.


Lucas Ja Pemberton made his appearance and the nurse announced "it's a boy"!
It was fun being surprised, even though I was pretty sure it was another boy, a buddy for Casen.
He is so tiny, Casen was 8 lbs 8 ozs and 21 1/2 inches, Luke measured in at a whopping 6 lbs 13 ozs and is 19 3/4 inches long. HUGE difference...especially to my recovery :) I definetly recommend having a small baby ;)

Casen has been loving him so far, we've had a few close calls when he has tried to pick him up or kick him...but so far Luke is unharmed. Casen is learning to be more soft with him and
is pretty good at saying his name..."looooook"