Santino is Born!

Santino Robert Hernandez was born on his due date of January 26, 2009 at 1:32am at Kaiser Hospital in Antioch.
He weighed a whopping 9lbs and was 22in long. Here he is fresh and brand new!

My labor was actually insanely quick...I was totally caught off guard and didn't even realize that I was having "actual" contractions and not just random ones on Sunday...until about 9pm when we decided to go to bed and they got really painful and so I checked the time and noticed they were 10 min apart...so I waited and had a couple more then woke up robert to call his parents to come pick up Alexya and suddenly they were 5 min apart and we were like "crap we have to get to the hospital!" I went down to get in the car and then they were already coming 3 min apart! His dad got here and we took off to the hospital, which is luckily only 10 min away, and by the time I got inside to check in I was 1 min apart and I asked for an epidural and they laughed at me and said "sorry hunny, but you about to deliver your baby." I was already 6 cm and by the time they got me checked in and in the room I was at 9cm and started pushing. It took about 30 min to push him out and so he came out at 1:32am and I did it w/o the epidural which is insane to me. Something I never thought I would do in my life would be give birth and take the pain! So wow...thanks Sonny for coming so fast and thanks Robert for helping me focus through the pain! :)

Proud, exhausted and happy parents!

All cleaned up, healthy, adorable and ready to go home!
Thanks for everyone who called and/or texted good wishes! We are home and recovering and Alexya is getting to know her new brother.