Grace Elisabeth has Arrived

Dear Friends and Family, We've started this blog to share with you all of Grace's "precious moments" She was born July 28th, 2006 at 10:30pm at the Group Health birth center.

Her birth was attended by Cindie Brown our midwife and Jenny Hitch our nurse, both friends. Labor began at 3:00am and progressed slowly because she was sunnyside up(face up, instead of face down). By 5:00pm things had gotten more intense, so we left for the hospital. I was 6cm when we got there. They checked us into a room and we continued to labor there. I was having a lot of pain from back labor and was asking for pain medication. I wanted to have a shot to take the edge off, but the anesthesiologist was busy with a c-section. Jon was doing a great job as labor support. He was doing the double hip squeeze faithfully and working up quite a sweat. Cindie decided to break my water, which I think helped to ease some of the discomfort. At 7:30 I was at 9cm. Jenny and Cindie were able to stall me long enough and I was into the pushing phase and past the window for drugs. After pushing for two more hours she was born, alert and ready to meet the world!