Well, she's finally here. Emma arrived to us on Friday, November 23, 2007; seven days ahead of schedule. It was the day after Thanksgiving and both Laura and I had the day off. We both slept in and I popped a DVD in to watch while I ate my bowl of Fruity Pebbles. The DVD was one I had checked out from the library and was, ironically, about how to take care of new babies. Just after the DVD ended, at about 10 AM, Laura's water broke. We already had bags packed, so it took just a few minutes to get ready to go to McKay-Dee hospital in Ogden. When we arrived at about 11 AM, the nurse examined Laura and said she was dilated to a 5 and fully effaced. She was surprised to hear that Laura hadn't had any contractions to that point. We were shown to our room and they gave Laura some pitosin to induce the labor. We spent several hours in the labor and delivery room waiting for the pitosin to work. Laura was finally able to feel some of the contractions. They were minor at first, but then she felt one that made her pretty uncomfortable. Time for the epidural! By the time the epidural was completed and working, she was contratcting pretty regularly at about 2 minutes apart. Finally, at about 6 PM, the nurse said Laura was dilated to a 10. Our doctor was out of town, so the on-call doctor was paged. She got to the hospital at about 7 PM and had Laura start pushing. At 7:31 PM, Emma was born. The vital stats: weight: 8 lbs, 11 oz. Length: 19 1/2 inches. Hair: dark. Eyes: blue. Mother, father and baby are all doing well. I will add some pictures tomorrow; right now Blogger is not working well.
Quinn
