Birth

Benjamin David Carlson came into this world on June 7, 2012 at 8:10pm. Weighing 7 pounds 7oz, measuring twenty and a half inches long. David and I eagerly anticipating his arrival as he was a week late and I had to be induced. The little guy still didn't want to come out so I had to have a C-section last minute.

He was perfect; he had ten little fingers, ten little toes, and a very healthy cry. He even pooped within a minute of being into this world (just like his daddy). We spent four days in the hospital and had many visitors and phone calls which was really nice. When the day came that we got to leave the hospital nerves and excitement ran through our body just thinking about how we were going to handle this little boy without all that help…clearly we survived.

The first couple weeks were hard adjusting to his schedule and getting little sleep, but thankfully David was home for the first two weeks which was a tremendous amount of help. I was very fearful of him going back and it just being me and Benjamin all day (I even cried the day David went back to work), but we managed and got on a good schedule and most importantly we survived.