Gabriel Scott

Everyone, meet our new son, Gabriel Scott Carpenter.

Gabriel was born on February 13th 2009, weighing in at 6lbs 11oz and 19" long. Gabriel was so excited to see us that he tried to come out face first. Faith had to be induced because of some complications, she was induced around 2pm on February 12th, by midnight her water broke and her labor was pretty intense, she got an epidural and 14 hours later she was ready to start pushing. Thats when the doctor realized that Gabriel was trying to come out head first, the doctor was initially hopefully that when Faith pushed more that Gabriel would correct himself but instead his head started tilting to be even more face first. At this point it became very hectic lots of nurses rushed in and they whisked Faith off to the OR for a c-section. Everything happened very quickly within 15 minutes Gabriel was born.

Gabriel had some trouble breathing on his own at first and because of this he has been in the NICU but he should be able to come join us in Faith's room sometime on Sunday. Gabriel is breathing fine now the doctors just want to keep him in the NICU to keep an eye on him since he had such a rough start to life. Also, becuase Gabriel was trying to come out face first his face was pretty bruised up and he looked like he had just gotten out of a bad boxing match. All of the swelling has gone down now except for his upper lip which will probably develop a scab. There are a few more pictures bellow.

The picture bellow is when Gabriel was about 2 hours old. The swelling you see here is actually quite a bit less than when he was first born.

All the rest of the pictures were taken when Gabriel was about 24 hours old.

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