Luke Olen Brannon was born on June 21st, 2010 at 7:21 PM. He weighed 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and was 21 inches long with gleaming blue eyes, and light brown hair. Though we planned and hoped for a normal birth, Luke had other plans for his arrival, and came into this world via emergency cesarean-section.
The whole story of his birth is a long one, so we'll post it in parts. Luke's journey to birth started on Father's day, about 5-minutes before evening church service started. We'd been at a Father's Day party all afternoon, and the weather was pretty warm. We got to church and De rested while I sound-checked the band. The Doctor had given us orders to keep watching her blood-pressure, so after the band's rehearsal was over, we checked her BP and it was high. We decided to give it a few minutes and test it again, but the second test was still high. So we decided to go to a quieter room and test a third time, and if it came back high, we'd call in and see what to do. The last check was really high, so we called Labor and Delivery for advice. As it happened, De's OB was on-duty, so the triage nurse spoke with him, and they told us to come in. We gathered our stuff, and hopped on the freeway headed for Modesto.
After about an hour hooked up to an FHR (Fetal Heart Rate) and Contraction Monitor, the blood test came back: Negative for Preclampsia/Toxemia. But we still had to deal with PIH, or Pregnancy-Induced-Hypertension. Basically, the same symptoms, but sans a disease or condition causing them. Then the doctor delivered the kicker - even though De's negative for preclampsia, because she's past 38 weeks, and due to the high blood pressure, they'll be inducing tonight...
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