Introducing...

I am announcing the arrival of Parker Joseph Moss to the world.  Parker arrived in the world on March 25th 2009 at 6:44 p.m. It was a wild ride to get him here.  Kharvena started having contractions eight days before he arrived. The contractions were strong but not strong enough to induce labor. At times they were even coming 4 minutes apart. But this would not last long enough to make cervical changes. We took many trips to the hospital during this time probably at least 6 times in eight days. But when things did start to progress we knew it. On Tuesday the 24th we went to the hospital thinking that Kharvena's water might have broken and they checked Kharv and told her that she was only at a one but was 80 percent effaced. We went home a little discouraged after this bit of news. We had a easy night then at about 3 a.m. she woke me up letting me know that the pain was pretty bad. Well we had been through this before so we waited to go to the hospital until the contractions had lasted at least three hours. At about 7:30 a.m. we decided to go to the hospital, not only was the pain not going away it was getting much more intense. Once at the hospital they sent us to triage where once checked Kharv was at a 4 and 90 percent effaced. Kharvena cried upon hearing this news because it meant that we were getting admitted. At long last we were going to have a child. After laboring for 12 hours Kharvena did not have the strength to pick herself up in bed so the decision was made to get an epidural in order to be able to push when the time came. At about three they checked her as well and she was at a 7 and 100 percent effaced. After another 3 hours of off the chart contractions it came time to push. After pushing for just a few minutes his heart rate started to drop so they had to put an internal monitor on him to see what was going on. She pushed a bit longer then they had to do something to help him out as his heart rate was getting lower. They had to use the suction to get him out and once his head was out we noticed his cord was wrapped around his neck twice and his body once. They quickly removed the cord and he cried for the first time. It was the most beautiful sound that we have ever heard. After being looked over by the NICU staff he was put on Kharvena's chest for bonding. His weight was 6 pounds twelve ounces and he was 19 and half inches long. We are now trying to adjust to being parents as this is a new experience for us. With that said it has been a huge blessing to have him here with us. We thank you all for your prayers hopefully more blogs and pictures to come. As a side note he will be 21 days old tomorrow.