Gulbranson's

I know this is a little late... Actully one month late, but Luke Joshua Gulbranson is here. He was born July 24th, 2008 at 5:35pm. He weighed 6lbs 14oz and was 21in long.

Even though he was due August 7th, my doctor had told me that she wanted to deliver early because I had high blood pressure. On the afternoon of July 23rd Josh and I were having a typical day, he had come home from work and I had been feeling fine all day. Shortly after he came home I noticed that my ankles were more swollen then normal and upon further examination I noticed that it could be preeclampsia... I called the doctors office and they had me come in that afternoon. Pretty much the first thing out of her mouth was, 'I don't like this... let's have a baby.' I felt shock for one moment and then my mind was flooded with questions.
Once we arrived at the hospital things seemed to slow down. Even though I was contracting on my own nothing seemed to be moving along, after 8 hours I was only 4cm, at 12 the next afternoon I was finally ready to get started. To my dissapointment my doctor was in surgery somewhere and I was forced to be patient. Finally after 22 hours and 58 minutes Luke offically became a part of our family, and I was glad he decided to join us.