Weston Scott Rasmussen

Ryan meeting his son for the very first timeTrying to console Weston during his IV attempts
Can I say that they have tried to stick him with IV's approximately 14-15 times!
Mom finally able to hold little Weston after they both had been worked on. I would be that red too after all those IV attempts. As a nurse they tried as best they can. Sometimes it just doesn't happen. I think that he has his mom's veins because they had to stick April about 4-5 times as well for her IV's!!

Weston Scott Rasmussen surprised us and decided to come earlier than scheduled and decided to not wait for his dad to arrive from the Grand Cayman's. He was scheduled to come by C-Section on 12/12/07, the day after Ryan arrives from school in the Cayman Islands and that

C-Section was to be done at Kadlac Hospital in Richland, WA. Well, April woke up the morning

of December 5th with this look on her face that told me we might be having this baby early.

We started timing the contractions and they were every 5-7 minutes and getting pretty strong.

We called her doctor and they wanted me to bring her to the hospital there so that they could take it earlier if she really was in labor. We didn't make it there. They were coming pretty fast and strong and April didn't think that she could go that long. We took her up to the hospital here in Moses Lake to be checked in OB and she was an 8!! Corbin later admitted to April that he thought she was being wimpy - but no, she was having a baby! It was debated a little bit on if she was going this fast then maybe she could just have it without a C-Section, but Dr. Curry who was the lucky Dr. on call did an ultrasound and found out the baby was posterior like Emmet and we were not about to have another delivery like his - so a C-Section it was. April let me play husband/dad, whatever you want to call me and go in on the C-Section. It was an awesome experience and one that I will be forever grateful that she let me be apart of. She was a trooper and got little Weston here safe and sound. We had Ryan on the phone to let him know what was going on, which had to be the hardest thing in not being able to be there. Thanks for letting me play you, Ryan!!

Weston was a little "shocky" at first and they wisked him off to the nursery where I got to go with him and tried to start an IV on him just to help him out with some fluids. Some 14 IV sticks later, still no IV. They decided to wait and see if he did okay without it and he perked up by that evening and better each day. What a trooper everyone was and April was sooooo happy to get all of this done, even if it didn't go quite as planned, but then what really does.