She has Arrived!

Just to mention it first, Marian lost her first top tooth!  It was very exciting and she is so cute.  I think its a pretty huge gap though, and wonder how big her permanent teeth will be!

Here is my cutie girl!

And on to what you really wanted to see!  Baby Rylee was born yesterday!  8lbs 2oz and 20 inches long.  Born at 5:39pm, beautiful and pink.

We went to the hospital at 3am because I was leaking fluid.  I totally thought I'd start labor and go quickly, but that didn't happen at all! Here I am, before they fully broke my water at 10am- no progressing, no labor, nothing! 

I will tell you that for this birth, I went with the epidural.  It was the longest out of all 5, and I am so glad I didn't try for Natural.  Okay, I never really tried for natural births with the others, it just happened.  They were mostly fast. There was nothing fast about this one, except the end.  I got the Epidural around 2pm and ahhhhhh.... it relaxed me enough that labor really got started, and even then, the baby didn't come out till after 5:30!  

And I will give you the benefit of my experience now...  If you think you want to try to go drug free- do it on the first, because after getting the epidural, I would NEVER willingly choose to hurt as much as a natural birth does!  

Here I am, right after she was born.  I think her umbilical cord is still attached.  She popped out in like 2 contractions  (I'm not positive; I wasn't feeling a thing, the epidural was that good!) and they gave her right to me.  I'm still crying here, but I don't think you can tell. I couldn't believe Dan wanted a picture right then!

Look at her pouty face!  They wrapped her up and gave her to Dan while they waited for me to deliver the placenta and all that.  We had fabulous nurses, and one of them took this shot.

Look at those open eyes!  I think that's the most open they have been since she arrived!  And you can see her weight there.  I was just pleased that her head, while lovely and round, was not enormous!

There's my precious!

Dan and Callie came to see us today at lunchtime.  Callie was SO excited!  Rylee's face looks weird here, but she really just has her hand crammed in front of her mouth.

Dan brought the other kids with him when he came to bring me home.  They are all enamored with their new sister.  They did also enjoy eating the snacks around the room- hence Marian and her silly face, holding her graham crackers.

So, I am home now and happy to be here.  While the delivery was wonderful, the Mom and Baby area of the hospital left much to be desired, and I'm much happier to be home. We'll see how tonight goes!