The Rayne Has Come!

Wow what a day! We showed up at the hospital around 5am for the C- Section. There was a bit of a delay as our Dr.(Dr. Coe) had a late delivery the night B4. After Kims prep, the procedure started around 8:45am ( I promptly started Kims Special CD- Bob Marley -Three little Birds) and the staff was happy to have some good tunes playing. Dr. Coe was great at keeping things calm and at 9:07am Baby Tyler Rayne Archuleta was carefully delivered. Just to make the moment perfect - Perfect Day By Duran Duran was playing and he was just beautiful. A perfect little round head and shape. He was 19.75 inches and 6.7lbs. Much smaller than Noah ( who weighed 9.15 lbs) but Noah was delivered at 41 weeks.

Moments after his delivery it was clear that Rayne was struggling a bit so they took him to the NICU for some extra care. They explained that he a a small amount of fluid still in his lungs (very typical of a C-Section) and that it would take a bit of Oxygen to get him to "adjust". They put an oxygen hood over his head and he quickly began to show that "Archuleta" fight by removing the hood with his little hands. After a few hours he was doing fantastic and we expect him to be home soon.


Here are a few Pics of his first couple of days!

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