Adalyn is here!

Adalyn was born July 7, 2011 at 2:42 p.m. She was 6 lb 8 oz and 19 inches long. Clark and I went into the hospital Thursday morning at 9:00 to be induced. The doctor broke my water and an hour later, started me on the not-so-wonderful Pitocin. At 11:00 I was a 4 and the anesthesiologist came in and told me he had 4 other surgeries scheduled that afternoon so it would be best to get the epidural right then. That was great by me! The contractions were coming every 1 1/2 minutes and more painful each one. It took the anesthesiologist almost 20 minutes to get it in. He blamed it on my scholiosis, but Clark said he seemed a bit inexperienced. Anyway, after that, I was feeling much better. At 2 p.m. I told Clark, "You better get the nurse. I feel the urge to push!" Clark ran to get the nurse and she checked me. I was at an 8 so she said we would wait a little bit more. At 2:30, I REALLY felt the urge to push, so Clark got the nurse and she checked me and said I was ready to go. She paged my doctor (who was at a tball game) and told me to try to wait. He arrived in my room minutes later and after 3 pushes, Adalyn was born. The nurse immediately put her on my chest and let me hold her for a minute. Then she took Adalyn away to get cleaned up, weighed, and checked out. She told me she would bring her back to me in 20 minutes. Well 30 minutes went by and she still wasn't back in my room. I had Clark go into the nursery to see what was taking so long. Clark told me they had to keep her a while since she had a lot of amniotic fluid in her lungs. They kept her in the nursery, on oxygen until 11:00 p.m. Then they brought her into us looking wide awake and happy. We took pictures and then tried to get some rest.

The kids have immediately taken to her. Will keeps saying how cute and little she is.

Rosie loves to be my special helper. She loves to throw away the diapers and cover Adalyn up with blankets.

We are so glad she is part of our family!