Whew! Well, I thought I'd hop on and add a few more pictures and fill in some information from my sister's post. Tuesday I had a great day in San Diego with family and friends, and left the kids with my mom that night since we were supposed to be at the hospital at 5:30 the next morning for my c-section. James and I went home, finished packing up, and I headed to bed. Before getting into bed I made a comment to James to the effect of, "That would be funny if this baby decided to come tonight, huh? We wouldn't call anyone, right? If there's any baby that would do that, it'd be this little bugger." So of course... just before midnight, my water broke, which of course (being me), I had to get online and research. Yup, sure enough. We headed to the hospital and had my c-section a few hours early, snagging the last private post-partum room in the process!
The c-section went smoothly, although I'll spare you all those pictures. They let James peek over and tell me what we were having, since we had chosen to be surprised this time. He told me it was a girl, and I was so excited for Kenley to have a little sister! Baby was born at 2:20am. She was our smallest baby at 6 lbs., 13 oz. and 18 inches long. I headed into recovery, where I promptly fell asleep. James and I both slept kind of off and on until the morning, when we got to call our families and tell them about our exciting night!
We finally decided to name her Claire Helene. We chose Claire because we both like it, and Helene is my grandma's name. I love my grandma so much - she is a great example to me of love, kindness, and optimism, and I hope that little Claire grows into her sweet name.
She looks a little bit like both our kids, and so far in personality she takes mostly after me - she likes to eat and sleep.
We are now home from the hospital. My house somehow got much smaller and my kids got much louder while I was gone, so I'm getting a bit of cabin fever having to stay cooped up in here. Hopefully my recovery will go quickly and we can get out and around pretty soon. In the meantime, we're doing a lot of this:
And today we went to the park, where Claire enjoyed a snuggle in the sling:
Here's a cute picture from today. It's torturing me by showing up sideways no matter what I do. Whatever. Just turn your neck.
10 comments:
What a sweet angel! She looks like a perfect addition to your family. I'm so happy everything went smoothly for you all and you're already on the road to recovery. I'll pray for you to have a speedy healing so that you can get out and about and back into the swing of things quickly.
She's beautiful! Congratulations!
I love her! Can't wait to hold her again. Love the pics and hope you feel better soon. Chocolate is on its way...
Congrats! Another cutie- Kenley must be in heaven. Looks like Andrea is there to help- so nice!
She's stunning!
Congrats Katie..she is a sweeite. Amy was supposed to be a scheduled C section, but she too, decided her own time, though it turned out to be a day earlier than scheduled Lucky for me, I was already in the hospital!
Yay for girls!! Congratulations! I had to laugh...Dan took a picture of me sleeping in bed with Kaitlyn swaddled up right next to me and my arm is up over my head...JUST like your picture...except I made him delete it because he also got my nasty, bruised, saggy, stomach hanging out from my shirt in the shot too. Bleck.
I miss Claire. Hope to see you guys soon. (And Leah, by "being there to help" do you mean moral support during naptime? :) That's my sympathy tiredness kicking in.)
Congrats on number 3! Claire is absolutely beautiful:) Hope you're getting some sleep...
Just had to hop on the blog and run the mouse over Claire's sweet checks. Also had to enlarge the Dino Mountain pics and laugh all over again. Gotta love those grandkids!
I love these pictures! Claire is so beautiful! Please, please give us more!
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