Corwin "Tag" Cobb

I can't believe that in 9 short months I went from this...

To this...

But I'm pretty sure that it's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. ever!

Tag was born on August 23, 2010 at 7:06pm at Duke University Hospital. He weighed 9.1 lbs and was delivered the good ol' fashioned way after 21 hours of contractions, water breaking, an epidural, some pushing, pitocin, and more pushing... then the real pushing. You know, the kind it takes to get a 9.1 oz baby out?! Thankfully, I had lots of support (Brentley, My Doula and friend, Dawn, and my Mom) and a waiting room full of family that sat there from 7am to 9pm and weren't even allowed to see Tag because of visiting hours! I had the best doctor ever. Seriously, if you're in the Durham area and want an ob doctor recommendation--Holla!! My stay in the hospital was awful though... but I think because Brentley and I just hate hospitals and because rest is just plain impossible when you've got doctors, nurses, visitors, photographers, social workers making you watch the purple crying video, etc. coming in your room every other hour. But once we got home things improved exponentially, and we've enjoyed every second since.

As many of you know, Tag had a problem with his kidney in utero and we were hoping it would be gone by the time he was born. The condition hasn't disappeared, but we're keeping an eye on it with Pediatric Urologists at Duke. They seem hopeful it will continue to improve and will not need any additional attention. Thanks everyone for your prayers for Tag's Kidney. I pray that soon I'll be able to write a post about how God has healed it!

30 wks....32 wks... time is flying by!

I meant to post a photo at 30 weeks, but I didn't get around to it in time. We seem to stay busy these days, which is a great thing when you're beginning to feel really pregnant and dreaming about delivering at 37 weeks instead of 40 (one can dream, right??). Our busy is nice though, and we feel really blessed. We have spent the summer so far enjoying time with friends and family mostly and also entertaining our dog. Durham requires a lot of energy on our part since we don't have a back yard yet for her to play in. We also have been settling into the house more and getting the baby's room ready... photos of the final product to come.

30 weeks

32 weeks

We went to the doctor at 32 weeks for our follow up sonogram where we learned that our baby's kidney had not yet healed itself. The medical term for it is Pyelectasis. There is lots of information online about the condition (both scary and reassuring), if you want to know more about it. Nevertheless, we have a follow up appointment at 36 weeks to see if there has been any progress so please pray with us that our baby's kidney would be healed! All the other results looked great, and we even got an estimated baby weight of 4lbs 10oz, which certainly indicates a healthy size baby at this gestational age!

I'm getting more and more excited every day to meet my precious little future futbol playin' baby. At least that's what I'm guessing he or she will be by the activity going on in my belly these days. Oh, and speaking of futbol... if you think of it, throw up some prayers for Brentley as he'll be attending child birthing classes this weekend during the World Cup finals. I'm a terrible person for scheduling it this coming weekend, I know. I'm just glad that we lost, because now I don't have to name our baby Donovan =)