It's a girl! (duh...)

So here's the story...

Sunday night April was having random contractions and wasn't feeling great, and went to bed. She woke up several times during the night. She woke up at three having pretty strong contractions, she had a bowl of cereal at 4am, and went back to bed. At 4:55am after a cork popping, April jumped jumped right out of bed and stood there as her water gushed onto the carpet. I was awake for this and witnessed the whole event. Got our stuff together and went to the hospital around six. Went right from triage to our room because her water was definitely broken. With a goal of going natural, she used getting in and out of the shower and her yoga ball to make it to a six, but decided that it was time for an epidural (I was also ready for her to get an epidural). Within an hour of the epidural April progressed to a nine, and at noon began pushing. I was holding her left leg and could see the top of Paisley's hairy head. April pushed so well that the nurse had to stop her (with the top of Paisley's head sticking out) so our child wouldn't be born before the doctor got there. He showed up, and with very little effort, Paisley popped out at 1:09pm August 17th. She weighed 7lbs 10oz, and was 20 inches long. She and April are both doing great. Paisley has been nursing well, and is a very calm and snuggly baby (which is awesome - because she will be replacing the cat which is neither of those things for me). We are accepting visitors with gifts, hours are from 8 to 8. We will be gone tomorrow, so hurry!

Paisley Mae Davis (about three minutes old)

The weigh-in...

Daddy and Paisley Cakes...

Sleepy Paisley...

Paisley mid squeak

Paisley has Daddy's furrowed brows...

Sleepy sleepy Paisley...