We had a surprise on Thursday night right before midnight. Nicole's water broke and then the fun began. We got to the hospital a little after 1am. We made the phone calls to her parents to get them on their way down from Lee's Summit. Her parents then relayed the news to her grandparents in St. Louis. All the family was assembled at the hospital around 6:30 am Friday morning.
Nicole was able to receive the epidural much sooner than she had expected (based on what they told us at the baby classes we went to). She was "feeling it" for only about 2 and a half hours. She did great. Knowing, but not understanding the pain, I was so proud of her. She was definitely a trooper!
She was actually fully dilated around 8:30, but her doctor was performing some surgeries that morning and so they told Nicole that since she was feeling good and all of Kya's vitals were ok, there wouldn't be any pushing until the doctor was out of surgery.
Around 9:45, they said, "ok...it's pushin' time" (That isn't really what they said, but that's the message that they gave. It's just more fun this way. :-)
Kya Mae Stiles was born at 10:42am on Friday January 28, 2011. She was weighed at 5lb 13oz, but they soon after realized that the scales in the birthing suite were apparently incorrect. They weighed her in the nursery and think that she was actually 6lb 1oz. She was also 19.5 inches long.
She was 3 weeks and 1 day early considering her due date of February 19, but everything has checked out and she is a healthy baby.
We spent the weekend in the hospital and enjoyed allowing some friends and family to meet our beautiful baby girl. We got home around 3:30pm on Sunday.
That's all I can think of for now. I'm sure Nicole will interject her thoughts later! Hopefully I can figure out how to post some pictures on here because Kya is seriously the cutest baby ever. I don't care that I'm her dad...SHE IS!!! Seriously though, she is absolutely beautiful and we are loving every minute of parenthood so far (minus last night when she pooped on me while changing her diaper...) :-)
this is my favorite...i think it's obvious why :-)
