We've been busy over the past 2 weeks and I felt like it was time for an update ... shorty after I finished the last blog posting we found ourselves rushing to the hospital.
I woke up around 2:20 am on May 19th to go to the restroom and once I got back in bed I started having pains that I associated with contractions. I timed them for about 20 minutes before waking up Ed and at that time they were about 8 to 10 minutes apart. We called the midwife that was on call, Ms. Natalie Nix, and she instructed me to get in the bath for 30 minutes to see if these were real. So I got in the bath and Ed went back to sleep for a little while. Once I got out the pains were more intense and about 3 to 4 minutes apart! We called Ms. Natalie back and she told us to go ahead and head down to the hospital. At this time the contractions were so painful that I was dreading the 40 minute drive down to the hospital. We left around 5:15 or so and headed to Northside. Ed made the important phone calls on the way while I was trying to make sure we didn't have a baby on the side of 400! My water broke in the car around 5:45 ... just minutes from the hospital. We got to the hospital around 6 and upon getting checked in they informed us that we were already 9.5 cm dilated and that the midwife needed to be called ... that also meant there was no time for drugs! Once Ms. Natalie showed up we began pushing. We pushed about 4 or 5 times for a total of 10 minutes before Miss Katherine decided to come on out!
Tuesday, May 19th at 6:40am we welcomed our baby girl into our family: Katherine Elizabeth Lash. She weighed 7 lbs 6ozs and was 20 inches long. She is so beautiful and truly a blessing.
She's finally here ...
Mommy and Katie!
The Lash Family ... and Miss Katherine makes 3
All cleaned up after her first bath ...
Daddy's little girl!
Such a cutie patutie!
Heading home!
