And She's Here!

I waited all the way until my due date for this baby!  I was so sure she would come early, but nope.  Here I am at 40 weeks.

I was having a contraction every once in awhile all day.  In the later afternoon, they seemed to come a little more regularly, and by about 5pm, I knew this was the real thing.  I let a friend know that we'd be going to the hospital that night and she offered to come and watch the kids.  We were able to get the kids in to bed by 8pm and then we headed to the hospital. We were there and checked in around 8:30pm.  By the time I was in the room and the nurse checked me I was dilated to a 6 (about 9pm).  I was pretty shocked because I had been dilated to a 4 for at least a couple weeks and had had many contractions.  I was thinking that this was going to take forever!  Over the next hour, the contractions came harder, longer, and then all of the sudden they were literally one right after another.  At about 10pm I called the nurse to ask to try out the Stadol.  I didn't get an epidural, but I was ready for any kind of relief.  My doctor came in to check my progression before the nurse gave me anything and I was ready to push!  I was slightly disappointed because it was soooo painful, I kind of wanted something to take the edge off!  :)  Luckily, this little lady was NOT a 9 pounder like Sadie. She popped out after about 4 minutes of pushing.  Halleluia!!  Ella June was born at 10:15pm on November 8th.  She was 7lbs 6oz (eek, I should check that, I have forgotten already!) and was I think 19 1/2 inches.  Now I am just making up numbers, but they are close. . . 

As you can see, the kids just adore her and we have loved having this sweet little spirit in our home!  Sadie gets so excited around her and one of her first words was "baby."  I still can't believe I have six kids. . .