That’s right: it’s new baby time!
Joshua Felix Seitler was born at 4:59am on July 1st! He was 21¾ inches long, weighing 8 lbs. 11.3 oz (big boy!).
We went in on Friday morning for a checkup with Nicole’s midwives, and since she was almost at 41 weeks, they ran a non-stress test. First off, the great news: he was head-down! (This boy’s been breech twice in the past six weeks! We were starting to think a C-section was inevitable…) Anyway, during the test Nicole began having regular contractions… and Joshua wasn’t responding too well to them. Next thing we know, Nicole has a room in Labor and Delivery!
Pitocin was started around 4pm, and progress was a bit slow. I tried to be up to help Nicole however I could, but by 1am I was snoozing on the couch/bed in the windowsill any chance I got. 
Around that time, Joshua’s pulse started really dropping during contractions: he was pretty steady at 120-150 bpm, but the number began to drop to 60 after Nicole’s contractions. 
(The nurses rushed in a few times that night, trying not to look too alarmed but rather quick to stop that!) At this point, the pitocin was cut back to make things easier on Joshua. It worked. 
His pulse began to stabilize! Just after 4am, Nicole began pushing. Just before 5am, she was holding Joshua in her arms!
We just got back from the hospital today — with the Independence Day holiday coming up, the pediatrician wanted another day to be able to keep an eye on “Lil’ Shu Shu.” Nicole’s mom is in town this week to help out, too, so you might not hear much from us for a little while. Here’s a movie to hold you off with! 
Oh, this guy is so cute! I wanna go watch him sleep some more…
He is SO sweet! Thanks for the update! Tell Nicole I will get those clothes out to her on Wednesday. Since he’s pushing 9lbs, he’ll be out of those newborn clothes before you know it.
Congrats, Travis! And may what little sleep you and your wife get be restful!
Congratulations! I am so glad for the pictures. Jason was just saying last night, “did Travis post anything about the baby yet?”
Congrats Dad!
Aw! Y’all are spoiling me with these comments!
Suzanne: I’ll let her know. Thanks!
Dan: We’ve all been sleeping much better since we came back from the hospital!
Laurie: He does know that he can read blogs without having one of his own, right?
Rae: Yep, we’ve tied in the “cute daughter” contest, so I had to figure out some way to get the upper hand!
Wow, he’s adorable! I’m so glad everyone is doing well. Very alert, too; looks like he’s ready to start his own blog. Thanks for keeping us updated.
(Shu Shu) is just so darn cute!!!!!!!!
I wuv him so much.
Congratulations! He’s a cutie!
(Sorry for it taking so long for me to reply — I was out of town and had limited dial-up access)
Congrats man!
–Jim
http://neffland.blogspot.com/
Congrats!
He really is a cute baby. And I don’t think many babies are cute. Congratulations on a healthy baby boy!
hello, congratulations!!
We´d like to know if you are related to the Seitler Family who lioved in Buenos Aires-
Argentina. If it is like that , we´d love to know the name of you´r grandads, because we also have the same lastname and maybe we´re realted.
OUremail is: martasei@hotmail.com
Thank you a lot!!!
Hi!!here we are again!
We´ve been thinking and we guess you are related to David and Sara, Perlita and me, Marta , I´m Marta, the daugther of
Matias and María.
If you´d like to see the photos of my children that are living in Miami, here is the website: homepage.mac.com/davidcandido/PhotoAlbum16.html
Saludos!!
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Told you that you’d have the info…