Blake Thomas Peckovitch

On Monday July 21st, we were blessed with the arrival of Blake Thomas Peckovitch. He was 5lb 4oz and 18 1/4" tall. Blake decided he wanted to come out 2 weeks early. His original due date was August 3rd. Tera's water broke at about 11:20am while she was vacuuming. She called me, her parents and sister and than decided to take a shower. During the shower, the contractions started. She said they were pretty close. I arrived home at noon and she called her Dr. The Dr's office told her to come in at 1pm because they were about to go on lunch. Seriously? That wasn't going to happen. After talking to someone again, they said just go to the hospital, so we left at about 12:15pm. We arrived at the hospital at about 12:50pm. Stupid traffic. Tera was hooked up to the fetal monitor at 12:58pm and a few pushes later, Blake arrived at 1:18pm. There was a bit of a complication though. He decided to relieve himself in the womb and swallowed some of the meconium.  After about 20 min or so of suctioning, they were able to remove most of it. We did later find some still in one of his ears. Because of his smallness, the Pediatrician said we couldn't leave the next day and ended being in the hospital for about 49 hours total. Well Tera and Blake were, I had to go home each night (2 nights) with Shelby because she wouldn't sleep there. We arrived home on the afternoon of Weds, the 23rd of July and everything has been good so far.

Here are some pics from the first week after Blake's birth.

 

I love his face in the last picture.