July 7th, 2009 | 
Author: 8lbs 8oz 20.5 inches
Sarah woke up at about 12:30am on Monday morning with contractions that felt a little worse than her usual Braxton-Hicks stomach crunches. She let me sleep about another hour, then we both tried to decide if we should start making some middle-of-the-night phone calls. We ended up calling Sarah’s folks at about 1:45 so they could come to our house and stay with Asher while we checked into the hospital. My lovely wife then proceeded to take a shower and put on makeup while having contractions about 4-5 minutes apart.
This is the part were we slightly miscalculated the timing of the whole ‘contractions hurt’ thing… It took Sarah’s parent’s (John and Lalla) a little longer to get to our house than we had anticipated. By the time they arrived around 2:35am, Sarah was in a significant amount of discomfort. They barely got in the front door before we were rushing out the back. I love that Baylor Frisco is so close to our house, however, your wife being in labor is the ONE time you have an excuse to drive like it’s the last lap of the Indy 500. I think it took about 12 seconds to get to there… wish it was further. It’s funny that the ride home is the exact opposite. You drive about 15mph like a granny when the newborn is in the car. The trips cancel each other out, right officer?
We got to the “hospital” around 2:45am and were all checked in by 3. I put hospital in quotes because it’s more like a 5-star resort than a hospital. We are thinking of our stay here like a vacation – it will cost about the same and our room, the food, and the staff are nicer than any hotel we could afford. Not to mention they give out free drugs! By the time they hooked Sarah up to all the machines and monitors, she was in a LOT of pain during contractions which were now about 2 1/2 minutes apart. It took almost another hour for the blood work to come back and the epidural dude to come, but Sarah handled it like champ. Neither of us have ANY idea how anyone could do it naturally… that is just crazy amazing. The eppy meds kicked in about 4:15am and Sarah was feeling great!
She started pushing at 5:00am and Avy popped out 23 minutes later!!
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ok..these pictures made me tear up – she is precious
Asher looks so proud and happy to be a big brother. I'm so happy for you guys – can't wait to meet her!
she is absolutely gorgeous! congratulations to all of you!
Tell Sarah, she basically DID deliver her naturally. She could totally have made it 45 more minutes–she did all the hard part with no drugs! Not that the pushing is easy, but…Anyways, awesome job Sarah, she's beautiful and so are you. Love you!
Congratulations! She is beautiful. I think it's cool that our daughters are almost exactly as far apart in age as our sons. We definitely need to get them together as soon as you feel up to it! How much did you love delivering at Baylor?! My friends call it the "Taj Mahal" since visiting me there. Hope to see you soon!!