Amelia's First Visitors

We are all excited to have Amelia Ann join our family. Julia had been waiting for her to come out of my tummy for so long, I was very excited to see her reaction and finally introduce her to her new baby sister. Friday evening, Jeff brought Julia and Grandma and Grandpa S. (who had just arrived in town) up to the hospital to see their new baby sister/granddaughter. Julia was very excited.

Julia is already a great big sister. She is a little timid around Amelia, which is OK, and continuously asks, "What's the matter with her" every time she makes a noise, face, or cries. Each day, she is getting more comfortable with her.

I returned home from the hospital on Sunday, June 27th, and was spoiled for a week by Grandma and Grandpa S. Julia never left Grandma's side. They were a huge help! I'm sure Grandpa was excited to be here as he got to help with the basement, and best of all fix/replace our septic pipes leading to our septic field - now that was a yucky job!

Below are a few picts of our beautiful new bundle of joy and family:




Above: the first day of our new family.

Below: Grandma, Grandpa, Julia and Amelia.



Above: Me and my girls!

Below: Grandma and her grandbabies!


Above: Amelia in her "going home" outfit (excluding the bonnet)

Below: Daddy and his girls, here Amelia has her special bonnet on. The bonnet was made by Grandma S. and is to be taken apart to be used as a hankey and her 'something old' when she gets married.


Below: Welcome home!

Amelia Ann's Birthday!

I was scheduled for an induction for Friday, June 25th, the day Grandma and Grandpa S. were also set to arrive. I advised our little baby girl on Thursday, that her time in my apparently comfy, five star hotel, was coming to and end. She could choose to come out on her own, or be evicted Friday morning at 9am. I guess that threat was all she needed. (I think we may now have another procrastinator in our family -the other one would be daddy, of course).

Thursday was a more active day with braxton hicks contractions and at 2:15am I woke up with uncomfortable contractions. These continued and at 3:00am I decided I'd better wake up Jeff in case this was the real deal. At about 3:15am the more intense contractions became pretty steady at every 10 mins. I hurriedly got ready, as did Jeff (although not quite as rushed - apparently I didn't seem panicked, could have fooled me.) Finally, after Jeff had to finish his waffles, we were off to our friends house with Julia to drop her off for the rest of the night (thank you, thank you Wendy and Jason). It was at this point that Jeff finally began to get a little panicky, and drove way too fast. We arrived at the hospital around 4:45am and dilated to 5cm! (I think it took at least 24 hrs. with Julia to progress that far when I was induced with her.)

Things progressed fairly quickly, I received an epidural and I think it slowed my contractions way down, but that was fine by me. I was fine with a longer less painful experience rather than enduring the pain. After just 10 minutes of pushing our beautiful baby girl, Amelia Ann, was born at 10:05am, weighing 7 lbs. 14.6 oz., and 20 1/2 inches long. She has sandy brown hair, and brownish, bluish, green eyes, that are seeming to turn more blue each day. She looks a lot like mommy.

Below are a few picts of our beautiful new bundle of joy:

Above: Me at 4:00am ready to go to the hospital.

Below: Amelia Ann, just minutes old. She weighed 7 lbs. 14.6 oz. (the scale is showing metric I believe)

Above: Amelia again, just 5-10 mins. old.

Below Pictures: Amelia a couple hours old.