Dear Family & Friends,

Your support & love during our pregnancy has been overwhelming. Jason & I would like to thank you all for being so wonderful the past few months.

-Special thanks to our moms who have helped so much especially with cleaning and painting the house to get it ready for Conner’s arrival. He is one lucky grandson!

-Thanks to my sisters and brother-in-law who have been amazing, as usual, helping at the house and being my shoulder when I need one.

-A big thanks to Zack & Jay for helping us move, Beth & Adam for making our move less stressful by helping us find the essentials we needed, and Kallie & Dustin for bringing us water when the U-Haul broke down.

-Thank you to Bridgette for all you’ve done especially visiting while I was on bed rest. You really saved my sanity!

-Thanks to all of our family & friends who have been so helpful. We are blessed to have such loving people around us & are so glad you’re going to be a part of Conner’s life.

We Love You All!!


Because most people who are planning to come to the hospital will be driving 30 minutes or more to meet Conner, we thought we’d share the rules and regulations on visitation Woman’s Hospital has told us about, so there are no surprises later and no one drives out of their way to have a frustrating visit.

Basic Info:
Visiting hours are from 9 AM- 9PM. Mother/baby rooms are located on the 3rd, 4th & 5th floors. Parking is available in the garage for a flat rate of $2 & has a walkway to the hospital on the 2nd floor. There is free parking around the hospital in parking lots also. The hospital cafeteria is on the first floor by the lobby & there are vending machines throughout the hospital. There is also a Subway on the first floor of the Physicians Tower. The hospital has free wireless internet available. To call the recovery room from outside the hospital dial (225) 231-5 + the room number. For patient room information call (225) 924-8157.

Labor:
During labor only four people (Jason, his parents & my mom) are allowed to come into the room. Please understand that the hospital makes this rule (not us.) During the delivery, only Jason & I will be in the room.

Visiting:
After Conner is born the hospital will notify our family in the waiting room by paging the family member with the hospital beeper (yes, like at a restaurant.) We decided to trust Conner’s Nanny with the beeper, so once Janelle is paged she will share the news with everyone in the waiting room. Generally visitors are limited to one or two at a time. (We are going to talk to the nurse about this because we realize this is going to be hard with our large families & people driving to visit.) Because of this rule we ask that only family visit the day of delivery so we don’t get in too much trouble for having too many people in the room at a time.