Saturday, March 3, 2012

Nicklaus Todd Miller

Introducing...

Nicklaus Todd Miller

February 23rd, 2012 ~ 10:13pm
7 lbs. 14 oz. ~ 19.5 inches long
Delivered by our favorite OB and Bishop...
Dr. Scott Jacob
Daddy cutting the cord
Proud Parents of a little BOY!
Todd and his little buddy
I had my membranes stripped a second time on Thursday morning and the contractions got stronger! By 3:15 we were at the hospital checking in. By 6:30 Dr. Jacob broke my water.
Around 9:00 the baby's heart monitor started to drop (after I was given a tiny bit of pitocin) and last time she had checked me I was just dilated to a 5 so the nurse put me on oxygen, backed off the pitocin and kept trying to find his heartbeat. By the time she went to check me and put an internal heart monitor on the baby I was fully complete, dilated to a 10 and ready to have the baby! We called Dr. Jacob and my Mom and Chelsea and after pushing through just three contractions he was born!


Nicklaus has 3 mothers now (Eeekkkkk)
My handsome men
Biggest Sister Kate
New Big Sister Jane
Mama and her boy
A couple days after we got home from the hospital
Nicklaus' jaundice climbed a few points so he got his own little tanning bed
I hated this thing...It was like putting him in a straight jacket.
But his levels dropped after a day and a half of "tanning" and he got to come out!
Hooray!
We are absolutely smitten with him.
He's perfect and we can't get enough of him.

We had a really hard time coming up with a name for this little guy.
Todd and I didn't seem to agree on anything. Todd wanted to name him Drake and I liked Max, Matthew and Nicholas. Todd said he liked Nicholas too but he liked the spelling of Nicklaus after their good family friend, Jack Nicklaus. And since I was fine with calling the baby Nick for short...I agreed to spell it Nicklaus. So right before I came home from the hospital I filled out the birth certificate as Nicklaus Todd Miller.
So there you go...that's the story of how we had a baby and decided on a name :)

11 comments:

Erica Tanner said...

Love his grey?white stripped outfit!

Erica Tanner said...

I meant grey/white

Michelle said...

I need to see him again. Stat.

Joan said...

We are thrilled for you! He is going to be one loved little man! :)

eyre blog said...

Yeah! It is so fun to see more pictures. What a happy time. He is absolutely precious!

Erin said...

I love his hair. He looks so much like Todd. I'm so happy he is here safe and sound. Way to go mama.

Laura said...

congrats! he's so perfect! enjoy that beautiful little boy!

Julie said...

ahhhhh!! Shans & Todd-he is SO PERFECT! I love him and can't wait to see him in person. Shans-it doesn't surprise me that you look gorgeous right after giving birth. You're so pretty. Your girls look thrilled. Looks like Jane is getting on board with having a brother. I love his name. xoxo

Kim said...

Congratulations! So happy for you guys and the darling boy. You look wonderful!

hayleyrowan said...

oh he is so so sweet. congratulations!

Melinda Lindahl said...

Shannon and Todd and Girls, congratulations! We are so happy for you! Your family is getting big! Isn't it fun to have a little family?!?! We love it!

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