Addison Gray is Here!!!

Well on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 2:16pm, our little angel came into the world. It had been a kind of weird week, for the pregnancy because Kate was starting to have a lot of pre-labor symptoms, but by Wednesday night they had all gone away. Poor Kate was starting to think that Addison was never going to come out. Wednesday, we had decided to do a big grocery shopping and pick up a lot of things so that we were ready when Addison did come. While at the store I asked Kate if she had wanted to get some Castor Oil, which is a old wives tail, that is supposed to bring on labor. She was like ok... why not, im willing to try anything. We got home and got everything put away, and were just relaxing. We had Emily with us that night spending the night, so around 12 am we decided we needed to get some sleep. Kate had taken the Castor oil, and was up and down a lot with it. We said goodnight to Em, and both went to sleep (well at least i thought we both did). Around 6:30 am, Kate woke me up, saying that i needed to get up, because her contractions were really close together, and really strong. It took me a minute to wake up, but once i realized what was going on i jumped up out of bed. By 7am we called the Midwives to tell them we were on our way, and they said sounds like we are in business, but to come in so they could check her out. We got there at 7:30am, and they got her all checked out. She was 4CM dilated at that point, so they admitted her to a room, and said looks like we are going to have a baby today! 

Well at that point it was 8am and Kate was in a lot of pain. It took them a couple of hours, but by 11am they finally got her an Epidural. After that, as Kate says it was a "easy labor".  by 12 they checked her again and she was 7-8CM dilated. And the nurse joked that we were gonna have this baby by 2:15pm.... Kate was doing great and just relaxing. at 1:30pm they came in and check her again. By that point they said she was fully dilated and ready to start pushing. We had been waiting on Molly to get there because she was going to take pictures for us, so Kate asked to wait a few min before starting to push to give Molly time to get there. Around 1:55pm Molly got there just as they were starting to have Kate push. Soon after that Addison was born. It only took a good 5-6 pushes and she was out. She was born at 2:16pm, 1 minute after the nurse had said she would be born. 

She is perfect in every way. They kept us for 2 nights, to make sure she was well, and that everything was going well, and Saturday morning they discharged Kate and Addison and we were able to bring her home. We have had so many visitor's with family and friend coming by to see her and welcoming her into the world, and I'm sure many many more to come in the weeks to come. 

Kate and I are so blessed to have had such an awesome delivery and somewhat easy delivery. You gear up for that moment for so long that you don't know what to expect, but overall it was a very wonderful experience for both Kate and I. We are so excited to have Addison here finally and to start on this new journey in our lives with her here. It's so exciting knowing that she is ours, and that we created her. We can't wait to experience life with her. There will be LOTS AND LOTS of pictures and post's to come so keep checking back!