Thursday, April 23, 2009

Andrik Douglas Stapley

He is here!!! Born at 4/20/09 at 4:50pm after 21 hours of labor.

It all started Sunday at 8pm when my water suddenly broke (thank god not at work!) After that it was off to the hospital. To my dismay, when we got there I was only 1cm, this was going to be a long night. I did end up stalling out at 4cm and had to get pitocin. After that things kept going, but pretty slowly.

I had decided to try to do this all naturally, taking the hypnobirthing classes and everything. All went well until I hit the transition phase. Nothing can really prepare you for that kind of pain. But all is worth it and you end up with a cute little peanut in the end.












Sheri my fantastic birthing coach.



Our first bath



Getting our footprints done