Crazy 5!: Our sweet little man!

If you've already read this, then you'll notice I took out a lot. Hopefully this is a better update than the other one was. And we don't have a lot of pictures because I completely forgot to check the battery and bring the charger with us.
It was such a long journey, for me, to get little Jaxon Thayne Simmons here. I began having mild, fairly spaced out contractions on Saturday, September 4. Then...things finally changed! Around 3 p.m. on Monday (Labor Day) my contractions moved from sporadic to steady. Finally, at 7 p.m., we gathered the girls and brought Thayne's mom home with us. We checked into the hospital and they took us to our room. They checked my cervix and it wasn't dilated at all!!! The nurse began to question whether Jaxon was even head down. She did an ultrasound, and he was! But his head was not in the pelvic region :( Dr. Kirkman went over our options. Option 1: do a repeat C-section. He went over the pros and cons of that. Option 2: break my water and see if that would help Jaxon drop into the pelvic region and help my cervix dialate. He went over the pros and cons of that. Thayne and I assessed the two options and decided on the latter. I was given some pain killers and then Dr. Kirkman broke my water. That instantly dialated me to a three and dropped Jaxon to a +1 station, putting him in the pelvic region. YAY YAY YAY!!! When my nurse checked me later, I had stopped dialating and my contractions had slowed down. Dr. Kirkman told her to give me a low dosage of petocin and place an interuterine contraction monitor inside me. They needed to CLOSELY monitor the intensity of the contractions. After a while, they decided to up the dosage of petocin to help move things along a little quicker. I kept having problems with my right side not being as numb as my left side, so we were rolling me from my left to my right for a few hours. Finally, Dr. Kirkman came in at 6 a.m. to check me. I was at a 10! WAHOO! He told me I would be able to start pushing at 7 a.m. When 7 a.m. hit, they told me to start pushing. Jaxon's heartrate was still dropping with each conraction. Finally, after 40 minutes of pushing, he was out! When he came out, he was not breathing or moving. Dr. Kirkman had Thayne cut the cord and took him straight over to his warming crib to let the NICU nurse and doctor begin working on him. I sat watching as they rubbed his body down VIGOROUSLY with a towel and then placed a tube down into his lungs. They began sucking out pinkish fluid. At long last, he began to cry and move. RELIEF! Once they gave him his initial APGAR score (I don't remember it) and all that stuff, they were able to hand him to me! He just cried as I held him and he wrapped his little hand around my finger. He was sooo pale and sooo weak :( He looked like he'd just run a marathon. I got teary-eyed but that's about all I could do; I was so exhausted. Thayne left that evening to go play with our girls. Once the girls were asleep, he headed back up to the hospital.
We only had to stay for 24 hours. Dr. Kirkman said I looked just fine and Dr. Horkley said Jaxon looked perfectly healthy. Once we got everything taken care of at the hospital, we decided to head home.
Thayne stopped at Wal-Mart on his way back Tuesday night so that we could bring home a gift for the girls. We wanted them to know that, even though there is a new baby in the house, they are still loved. Thayne bought them ponies and Starburst. When we got home, they were still napping. We sat their gifts on the floor where they could see them when they woke up. They were so excited! And once Jaxon finally woke up, they got to meet him. They were so good. They kept doing the sign for baby. They even tried to say his name. And, of course, they had to pet his head! SO PRECIOUS! They did really well :)