New Arrival

We had a 'little' surprise early this week. Some of you may remember my due date of December 18.  Well, that went out the window early Tuesday morning when my water broke at 2:24am - about 3 weeks ahead of schedule.  After a call to the doula and my mother to let her know she should hop on a plane, we labored at home until about 9am.  Then we headed in to the hospital when my contractions were about 5 minutes apart.

That's Chris holding all of our stuff.  Everyone gives you a list of things to take to the hospital to be prepared.  I think I took everything on everyone's list :)

Long story short, pre-eclampsia raised its ugly head that day and my birthing day ended up being very different than what I had hoped.  As I have said from the beginning, I just wanted a healthy baby so whatever we needed to do to get that to happen was ok with me.  About 26 hours after my water broke this is who arrived:

 Kathryn Olivia

5lbs, 15oz

born at 4:17am on December 1, a Wednesday

 (weirdly, I was born at 4:17pm on a Wednesday)

(could that be strawberry blond hair???)

I've had elevated blood pressure ever since, but hubby isn't concerned and I guess the doctors aren't either since the plan is for us to go home tomorrow morning.   

Here she is after a feeding this morning sleeping on me.  So cute... Of course I am horribly biased.

And last but not least- one of the best pictures I've ever taken.  Daddy with his daughter.  Chris was awesome and I can honestly say I have never loved him more. 

I promise more pictures to come and maybe even video.