Hunter William Schantz joined our family on February 7, 2010. Just after the snow finally stopped falling, after a blizzard all day Friday & Saturday, Hunter decided it was time to make his grand entrance... Labor contractions began about midnight, and by 1am were quite uncomfortable. I decided to get into my bathtub in hopes this was just another episode of false labor. Our streets had not been plowed, and more than 2 1/2 feet of snow coated the entire area.
When the contractions didn't stop, I started to get nervous, and started praying for a snow plow. Sure enough a snow plow came down our street. Troy went outside to talk to the plow driver, explained that I was in labor and could he help us plow out the bottom half of our drive way so we could get to the street.
Then we called Aunt Jessica & Uncle Tom, woke them up, and told them we were on our way with Owen. My contractions were about 3 1/2 min apart when we left for the hospital. The drive there was unreal. Cars had slid off the road, plows and bulldozers were everywhere, but the roads remained quite coated in snow and barely passable. However, we made it to Aunt Jessica's street, which hadn't been plowed. Uncle Tom met us at the entrance to their neighborhood and helped Owen to their house. Then we continued on to St. Joe's, just a few minutes away from their house.
So relieved that we finally made it to the hospital around 5am, we got checked in, and I was already 4+ cm dialated and baby Hunter was definitely on his way. Once we got settled, and got the fantastic epidural, we were finally able to relax and let the rest of our family know we were at the hospital and that Baby Hunter would be here soon. It wasn't long after that, they broke my water, and by 9am we knew it was almost time. The nurse told me they'd be back at 9:30. I started pushing about 9:40 and Hunter made it into the world at 9:45am.
He weighed in at 7lbs .02 oz, he was 20 inches long at birth. His hair is a lighter color brown, but he looks a lot like Owen did as a baby.
Big Brother Owen was very excited to find out his "little peanut" brother had arrived. Daddy called him to tell him the big news, and Owen was very excited. Our family is now complete and we are so blessed to have such a wonderful baby join our family.
Given that Hunter was born in the middle of a blizzard, everything was a little rushed, and unexpected... But what was even more unexpected was that a second blizzard was to arrive on Tuesday. Therefore, Mommy & Hunter were discharged from the hospital Monday evening and went home with Daddy and Big Brother Owen a little ahead of schedule.
The second storm was much nicer. We were all home together as a new family, and relaxed around the fire place, watched movies, enjoyed the baby, and poor Daddy had to dig and dig and dig out the driveway. Within 5 days we received more than 50 inches of snow!!!
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