It's 3am

Mary is wide awake and nursing now. Before eating she was just as calm as could be. She can really focus on your face and follow you with her eyes which is pretty cool...you can see her thinking and wondering :) the cramps have been strong during this feeding too. I snapped a photo of her, 15 hours old!

on a side note, after 4 hours of laying on this couch, my back feels like I just moved 20 yards of mulch.

Day zero winding down

It has been a great (and long) day from the birth to the visits by all our friends and family. We appreciate everyones prayers and support!

Mary has fussed very little and has been alert several hours today. She has already nursed several times and is nursing right now.

Erin has had severe contractions and cramping when she nurses, supposedly with each kid you have the after birth cramping multiplies in intensity. Thankful I am a man and events such as this only confirm women are stronger than men. Other than this Erin has been doing the best she ever has. She has no tearing and is able to walk around just fine, it is amazing.

Mary had a massive BM tonight of that tar like substance, hopefully that is the last one of those types of diapers. I think she lost half a pound as a result.

What a day! I hope to get the mass of pictures online tomorrow for all our friends in family in remote locations! Check my website for the latest.

We are both looking forward to a couple hours of sleep now. Erins mom is staying over with Grace and Tedster.

Goodnight!!!

New pic

Here's another photo!

Mom and Mary

she has a dimple on her chin and she is very calm right now!

Length

there is no emoticon to express the feelings here. erin and mary doing great, she is 20 inches and 13 inches head size! Erin went from 6 to 10 in 23 minutes and 8 to 10 in just 4 minutes, pretty crazy! erin makes this look easy. Becker out.

Mary is here!!!

At 11:21 am est we have been blessed with a beautiful baby girl! Praise God. The doctor had to run here to deliver Mary. She is 6lb 12oz. More details in a while.

Baby is ready

We are waiting for doc! Unreal.

Baby is close

We are at 7cm now, contractions very regular, epideral is working well, they are predicting that Mary will be here before noon, this may be a new delivery record.

Epediral is in

No new measure yet but they will take one soon I'm told. I was wandering around and located the IT department, snapped this photo of their biometric key system which I thought was cool!

Pain setting in now

Wanda has arrived, we have a full house. Erin isn't laughing as much now that the pain is setting in, epideral ordered and contractions are consistent. No new measurements yet.

Birthing crew all here

My parents are now here, now we just need Mary to arrive! Jerry is back at home with Teddy and Grace.

Photo from the room

Here's a pic of the nurse (Cindy) and Erin.

Family arriving

Erins mom and jeniffer are here now, my parents are enroute. They havnt done anymore checks yet so no new stats to post. She's still talking and laughing so I think we are a ways off. Our student nurse is here, her name is also Mary, she likes the name we've chosen!

3cm and water broke

Dr. White is here and they took some stats, 3cm and they broke the water...contractions regular and starting to be painful.

All plugged in

The nurse has got her all plugged into the equipment and bags of fluids. She is at 2 cm and 70 pct. Baby heart rate is averaging in the 150's. Small sporadic contractions registering, the potossin just went in so I expect things will change in a bit. Now we wait.

We're off!

I had a thought before I dosed off around 2300 that tonight would be a bad night for any sleeping problems with the kids. Sure enough, 2am Grace is up and crying because she had a bad dream. Then again at 3. She said she dreamed a hand was chasing her. I think it is going to be a long day. I just had my bacon fix, Erin is getting ready and then we are off.

Treo test

Just testing to make sure all systems are a go.