Jenna's Here At Last!

As most of you already know, on Wednesday morning, bright and early, Gary and I headed to Cottonwood Hospital to begin our new adventure in parenthood. We arrived at the hospital at 7:30 a.m. and my midwife broke my water at around 8:30. I started having regular contractions right away, but after hours of contractions (getting more painful, of course, as time went on) I finaly gave in and had an epideral when after checking me for the third time, I was still only dilated to a 4. It was very discouraging. At about 4:30 they decided to put in a catheter and see if that helped. It did the trick! with in about a half hour I went from a 4 to almost a 10 so they called Julie, my midwife, and after pushing for only 15 or 20 minutes, Jenna was born at 5:53 p.m. It was a great moment! Jenna, as you can see in the pictures is a beautiful baby, and Brianna is the proudest big sister ever.

Sisters at last!Right after Jenna was born.

Julie Jones (our midwife) and Jenna.

Me, not looking to great, and Jenna.

Our beautiful new daughter!