BABY BRACKEN IS HERE!!

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Bracken Peirce Kleinman arrived at 8:54am on Thursday September 10th. On Wednesday around 8pm Courtney felt that perhaps her water had broken or something else "was going on down there" and under doctor's instructions we headed to the hospital to be "analyzed". It was determined that she was dilated to three centimeters and we were cleared to return home to labor. We rested until about 2am when the contractions were too frequent and too painful to continue laboring at home. We arrived at the hospital and labored all through the night without much progress passed the seven centimeter mark. Around 7am the nursing staff gave Courtney pitocin and things began progressing fairly rapidly. Around 8am the nurse upped her pitocin dosage and things began progressing too rapidly for Curtis’ liking. Soon Courtney could not control the urge to push. Finally, without the OB’s presence, the nurse gave Courtney the go ahead to push. On the first push the head nearly emerged and the nurse fled from the room looking for the OB. Curtis was afraid that he would be left to deliver the baby alone, and he nearly was. The OB ran into the room amidst the next contraction, analyzed the situation, shrugged into a gown half way, and caught the baby like a left fielder just as he emerged from the birthing canal. The delivery room nurses jumped into action taking the baby from the OB and plopping it up into Courtney’s arms, Curtis cut the cord and the baby was here to stay. The OB, still stunned said, “Can someone get me some gloves please.” She was standing with both hands resting up on the delivery cart, pushed half way through the bloody sleeves of a blue-green scrub apron. Not even having time to put on surgical gloves, Curtis hadn’t noticed until just then that the OB had caught Bracken with her long apron sleeves. Now she looked like a little child wearing her father’s long sleeved work shirt with her little hands drowning somewhere inside. He came very fast. The little boy is already in a hurry. Runs in the family.

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