Hooray!

We have a baby! Our little angel was born at 9:06 on Monday night and it could not have gone more easily! I had a doctor's appointment at 1:00 that day, and I was 5 cm dilated. I let her know that I was ready to have the baby if she thought we would do it that day, and she decided that it would be wiser to go ahead and induce than to take a chance on having my water break when I was away from the hospital. I called Nick and everyone else and went over and got checked in. They started an IV and took some blood, then Nick got there and they gave me my epidural. My doctor came and broke my water around 5:00. The baby was born 4 hours later after 8 whole pushes. I only had to have about 4 stitches and thanks to the epidural I didn't feel a thing!

She is just beautiful, 21 inches long, 7 lbs even, with APGAR scores of 9 and 10! With Morgan my water broke at home, and by the time I got my epidural I was having hard contractions about a minute apart. I pushed for 3 hours and then they had to use forceps. It took about 45 minutes to sew up the tears, which went through 3 levels of tissue, so this whole delivery was a piece of cake! Thank you so much everyone for all the prayers and well wishes!