Happy Birthday Emily Grace

Name: Emily Grace Goetz
Birthday: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 3:21am
Weight: 6lbs 8oz.
Length: 19.75 in
Hair colour: very light brown
Eye Colour: blue

Our room, where I delivered

me about an hour or so before she was born, like the socks?

and here she is!

Getting checked out by Dr. McArthur, who also delivered Lily

Daddy and Emily

getting all warm and toasty

Wednesday night at 9:30 I was cutting Jason's hair (how else do you think we afford this house?!) when I got a sharp pain in my belly. I thought to myself that that wasn't my usual braxton hicks but figured I still had a week to go. Two hours and several painful contractions later I called the birthing centre to see if I should come in cause my contractions, although painful, weren't regular. They said because of my high blood pressure that I should come in and at least get checked out. So I called up Kasey who came over to watch Lily and we headed out to Walkerton. We got to the hospital at 12:30 and by the time I got there my contractions had averaged out to 8 minutes apart and when I was checked I was already 5cm dilated! So I had a nice relaxing soak in the tub and then got out cause the nurse wanted to put in my IV. She checked me again and I was at 8cm, I couldn't believe it, I thought "this is too easy"....I was right! My water broke shortly after and things progressed pretty quickly. Emily Grace came into the world in 2 pushes (beat my old record by 1!) at 3:21am, but that speed came with a price...stitches :(