1:30am - I wake up to Melissa looking around in her closet. "what are you doing?", "nothing" she replies, with a scared look on her face. "doesn't look like nothing" I said. Melissa then admits that she thinks her water broke.
1:30am I thought the timing couldn't be much worse, but as it turns out this was only the beginning of a long road that might as well have begun when it did.
3:00am arrive at the hospital and watch Melissa (and baby) get hooked up to some machines. I think we both managed to get a couple hours of sleep in.
To pass the time, we watched the news and Office Space. I managed to do some work. Only because "+2" (business day 2) is one of our busiest day of the month, good timing :)
1:30pm contractions start. Melissa is doing a great job and the doctor says he thinks we might be able to get this done in under an hour!
2:30pm many pushes later and Melissa is starting to get tired, not to mention ill from the medication she was given to kill the pain. I'm sure Melissa was wondering why the baby wasn't out yet.. the doctor said....
4:03pm Here comes the baby!! A couple snips to make some room and..... It's a girl!!!
She is 19 1/4 inches and 7 pounds 6 ounces!
We had a nice visit with Mom & Pop, Jim, Kay and Bobby Beyer (shout out for 1st time grandparents and first time uncle for the Beyer family :)). Special thanks to the Wood grandparents for making the long trip up north - I know they felt it was well worth it.
Visiting hours are over at 8pm so we tried to pass out, but Evelyn didn't want to sleep as much as we did. About 4 feedings that night made it hard to sleep for Mommy.
Here are some pics of Evelyn Avery Wood (we reserve the right to change the name, but hope to be sure when we leave the hospital tomorrow with the birth certificate).
2 comments:
Congratulations! We are very excited for you.
Awwww... so precious! We continue to think of al three of you and can't wait to meet Evelyn in person. I love her name - where did you come up with Avery?
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