She's Here!

Our little princess, Annette, arrived with a bang on Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:42 am!

I woke up just before 2 am on Tuesday the 10th with pretty regular contractions. I hadn't had even irregular contractions before that so I was kind of surprised to be at that stage all of a sudden. After about an hour and a half of timing them, I woke Abram up and told him it was time to go to the hospital. He looked at me and said "Try going back to sleep" and rolled back over! So I did what he said and I magically DID go back to sleep for just over an hour! So then I was confused about whether I was in active labor or not. But then about 6am they became very noticeable again and after 2 hours of timing them again and them getting more intense, I talked Abram into going to the hospital. Things did not move as quickly as I had hoped they would and when they finally decided I was far enough along to break my water, I asked for the epidural first then they broke it. Things went more quickly then! About 9:45 pm it was finally time to push her out. Three hours later she was finally here! That was a miserable three hours..... There were two things I really didn't want to have in my labor and delivery and that was a long labor and back labor. Of course I got both! One reason it took so long to push her out was because she was turned around backwards and we couldn't get her to turn around the right way. It was super painful.

Anyway, she came out eventually at 6 lbs 8 oz, 20 inches long. She had a giant cone head and a fever but she was perfect other than that. :)

Our stay at the hospital was fine but after two days there after her birth, we were ready to go home. We have had so many neat experiences as her parents in the first 10 days of her life. She loves her mommy but when daddy's been gone for too long, she starts to get pretty fussy and stays that way until he gets home. We've taken lots of pictures of her, especially when she sleeps. She's just so cute! We hope that little Annie is enjoying her short life so far and that we will always know what she needs and be able to provide for her.

And now for your enjoyment, some of my favorite pictures:

With mommy

Abram's favorite pic

Watching Star Trek: DS9

With her cousin, Spencer, who's 25 days older

Ha. That's all we have to say about this one

With Aunt Ciara

This is how I found her after a 3 hour nap. I know how she fit in the womb all those months now

She was so hungry she was willing to eat daddy's face!

She thinks she's a comedian and kept making funny faces at us!