She's here!

She's here! We made it! It was a great day for us here at Presbyterian. We checked in at 7 for our induction and the pitocin started at 8. My water was broken at 9 and I got my epiduryl shortly thereafter. It took a while for the contractions to get regular and the epiduryl started to wear off a bit- around 11 :45 I was only 4 cm but my 12:30 I was 8cm. We got the epiduryl adjusted up a notch and Dr. Morris said I'd be ready to go within the hour. He came back and checked me at 1:30 and I was good to go- so I pushed for almost 5 minutes and out she came! Dave was amazing- for some reason I've had really heightened anxiety about this delivery and He was so comforting and loving. God has truly blessed me with this man! and our 3 precious girls!

just waiting around....

1:42 pm

Daddy and Camilla

Dr. Morris and his latest delivery

Molly was able to come up this afternoon and was so helpful! Here she entertained the big sisters with videos of Kate and Nancy while we waited for Camilla to come back from the nursery

Bennett's first time holding her baby sister! She was so sweet-

And Celia of course was ready for some baby love. She brought us a picture she'd drawn of our new family of 5. We need to get a picture of that for the blog- our nurse Jeanne gave the girls pink bracelets like ours and Camilla's that say "Big Sister"- Celia was particularly psyched about that-

After E took the girls back home Molly stayed and helped me with a nursing session- she was like my own personal lactation consultant! It was great and so helpful-

and lastly the little bug tuckered out-

We think she looks a lot like Celia. Not so much like Bennett...she has a good amount of curly brown hair and long fingernails- she's almost ready for her first manicure I guess! I hate that we didn't a picture of E with Camilla on our camera....it must be on hers....she has taken on a difficult job of caring for Cel and Ben while we're in the Hospital all on her own while Hunt works through the last weeks of tax season. We are so thankful for her!

We are so thankful for how God has blessed us! We ask your continued prayers for Camilla and myself to get the hang of this nursing- also we'd appreciate your prayers for our transition back home on Thursday! Thank you all for rejoicing with us!