Isaac Matthew Schoonover

I just wanted to congratulate Shaylee and Chad on the birth of their new son Isaac. He was born last night, 3/24/09, at 11:42 weighing in at 8.11 pounds and measuring 20 1/2 inches long. It was kind of a slow night at work so my lead nurse let me spend about 2 1/2 hours with them during my shift while she labored and when her doctor came in he looked suprised to see me there. I explained the relation and he was so excited about it, it was kind of cute. We happened to have a couple of his patients in the unit that I work in so he came down to see them a bit later and I got to harass him about having somewhere to be and something better to do. I was just getting ready to clock out for the night and my mother in law called and said "Dr. O said it is coming so you need to get up here". I grabbed my purse and sweater and got up there as quick as I could. Now let me tell you, I wasn't invited to be there for the birth and I would never infiltrate myself into a situation like that so I just waited outside the door. I was putting my head by the door and all I could hear was 6 people in the room laughing, I was thinking what???? I thought somebody was having a baby, where are all the moans and the pushing sounds. Then Dr. O says "where is she, I thought you called her". I opened the door and my mother in law was standing behind the curtain and I said are you waiting for me and everybody started laughing and saying YES! Then I got the suprise of my life when Dr. O said come in and watch, I said I would wait behind the curtain with my mother in law and he asked Shaylee if we could come in and she said sure she didn't care as long as we didn't mind seeing everything. We whipped around the curtain and there Shaylee was with the head all the way out with the doctor just holding it there, they were seriously waiting for me to get there. I felt bad for her and hope that she forgives me at some point for the wait! Dr. O had the biggest smile on his face and asked if we had ever seen a birth and I said actually the last birth I saw was 5 years ago today. My mother in law had never seen an actual birth and the look on her face was priceless. Isaac seems to be a very laid back kid so far, nothing seemed to bother him like the poke for the vitamin K or checking his sugar levels. He never really started to put up a fuss until they gave him to his Mom. It was like he wanted her to know how much he had gone through and just wanted to complain about it a little. I left around 12:15 to go home and excitedely tell Shane about his new nephew. Oh by the way the gender of the baby was unknown so that was so cool have that suprise seeing how it seems like everybody these days finds out the sex before the birth. Seeing how they already had one boy and one girl they decided to wait until the birth. Shaylee was so cute after the birth when she said that she knew it was a boy and was excited but she was also kind of looking forward to a girl because of all the clothes that she could buy. Once again a huge thank you to Chad and Shaylee for allowing me to be there for this special time in their life, and to Dr. O for holding the show for me to be there!