Welcome, Little One

Clara has arrived! We welcomed her into the world at 6:39pm. She weighs a delightful 8 pounds 4 ounces and is 21.5 inches long. The labor was intense, read pitocin involved, but thanks to the epidural the last part went very well. Both mother and daughter are healthy and resting.

When last we met our heronie, she was an eight after a marathon adventure to get the epidural. In the next hour she went to ten, and after 55 minutes of pushing Clara was born. Clara was born with hair, not as much as her mother had at birth, but more than her baby-baldy father did! It is brown, shocking, and part wavy and part straight. She is chubby in a cute new baby sort of way. I told Kristin I prefer the chubby babies to the skinny ones.

We were able to spend an hour and a half with Clara before she was wisked away to the nursery for her bath and check-up. It's been four hours since they took her away and the nurse says that they are going to bring her to our room any minute. We can't wait to see her all cleaned up and to get to know her a little better. (Plus, newborn babies are a little goopy (that's a Kristin word) so I can't wait to see if she cleans up real nice. [Props to anyone who gets that reference.])

Oh, and two other important things. First, after Clara had been gone for an hour Kristin turned to me and said, "Chipotle. Now." After not being able to have the tortilla and rice (too many carbohydrates for the gestational diabetic) she is now free. Freedom has never tasted so sweet. Second, she's already eaten her first chocolate bar as evidenced by the picture below.