Emily Kate is here!

Our girls!

Flowers from Tyler....Falls colors....Beautiful!

Tamara, Dr. Krombach, and Rebecca

Our new Town & Country

Yep its a minivan and I love it!!

Last picture of the bump!


As Pappaw would have said: "Never fear, Emily Kate is here!" (Or that is what I've been told he said when a baby was born). Yep our Emily Kate is here. After the nonstress test on wednesday Dr. Krombach decided that we could induce on Friday AM. So here we are at 6am at Arlington Memorial Hospital. I'm very excited to see Emily and hardly slept last night. We checked in at 6am. They showed us to the labor room and let us get settled. I was hooked up to the IV and given pitocin to get the contractions started. Debbie, my first nurse, told me that she would increase the level of pitocin every 15 min so I expected to begin having horrible contractions very soon. At 7am I was up to Level 8 of pitocin and didn't feel a thing. At 7:30 Dr. Krombach came in and broke the water and increased the pitocin to 12. At that point the contractions were felt. They hurt so bad!!! Around 8am I was given a pain medicine by IV because the anesthesiologist was in the middle of helping deliver twins. The drugs must have been extremely strong because I was completely out of it. I remember talking to my sister or trying to talk to my sister but everything was garbled. I could still feel the contractions but I couldn't think straight. A while later the epidural arrived which I was very happy to be getting since everything hurt. However I don't really remember it being given only that I was laughing so hard that I had a difficult time sitting up straight. Tyler was helping me stay as still as possible. Epidurals are wonderful!!! I think that was about 9:30. At 10:45 I was told Emily was on her way and they were calling in Dr. Krombach. And finally at 11:18 Emily arrived! 4 1/2 hours of labor and it was all over. She is perfect at 6 lbs 8.9 oz, 19 in long and an apgar score of 9.9!

We are so happy to welcome our 2nd daughter to the world and I think Elizabeth is getting used to having her baby sister at home!