Our daughter was born last Friday at 3:41 pm! Abigail has a friend who's baby was born at the exact same time. Crazy! We left for the hospital around midnight after a couple hours of sleep. Abigail's water broke - so the doctor told us to come in right away. Abigail had been telling me that "water breaking" usually only happens in the movies (like in "We were Soldiers"). I guess she was part of the 10 percent to whom that happens. Anyways, we went to the hospital and the contractions got worse and worse... She got an epidural around 7:45 am and was ready to go about 9:30 am. For some reason the doctor decided to keep working at his office until his hours were through - so he didn't actually make it until around 3pm. We waited like six hours for him to get there. But, we like him a lot, so we weren't too upset. ah well. My poor parents, brother & soon sister waited at the hospital from like 2am to 6pm on Saturday. Well, the delivery went pretty smoothly. The baby had quite a bit of gunk in her after being born - so they kept wacking her with this soft paddle stick thingy - and then sucked out all the gunk. Pretty gross and cool at the same time. I guess all of the gunk was preventing her from getting a good percentage of oxygen. After a few minutes she was well. We are thankful to God for a healthy new baby. That is my mom holding Mae at the top left. Now, to figure out how to get some sleep at night...
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