Welcome baby Eden!

Just twenty-eight days ago, Finley’s little sis, came into our lives and boy has it been a whirlwind. She was born at 5:30 am on Monday, August, 1st and labor & delivery was actually much quicker than with Finley. I was exactly 40 weeks when I went into labor and was scheduled to be induced if she didn’t come by Tuesday morning so I was pretty excited that she actually decided to make her debut when she did. I had been feeling contractions for a couple days but they really came on strong around 10:30-11pm on Sunday night. I laid in bed with Fin for a few hours until they started coming a little closer together. Then I went on the couch and watched a couple dvr’ed episodes of the Bachelorette (I know, I know) while I waited for them to come on stronger. Within an hour, I was getting a little nervous that perhaps I’d waited a little too long. Contractions were a couple minutes apart and very strong. I woke Jeff up, he packed Fin up in the car and we were on our way. Not without incident, however. First, Jeff set off the alarm when he opened the garage door to put Finley in the car. After entering his parents alarm code into our alarm key pad a few times, he finally realized and entered in our code just in the nick of time. On the way to the hospital, I had a few more contractions and asked myself, “why did I think going through this again was a good idea again?” We arrived at the hospital a little before 3pm, Fin in her pj’s, and a little freaked out and me in quite a bit of pain. When I was admitted the nurse asked me half a dozen of the most ridiculous questions like, “do you and your partner fight?”, “how do you resolve conflict when you’re in an argument?”, “how do you handle stress?”…when you’re dilated to an 8…the last thing you want to be doing is answering a ridiculous 50 question survey prior to being admitted to have your baby. WTF was that all about? I was admitted to my room, given an epidural, and waited for the doc to arrive. My parents got there around 3:30am and Fin was excited to meet her little sister. The doc arrived around 5:15am, asked me to push twice, and little Eden was here less than 15 minutes later. She was 8lbs 1oz and 20 inches long and had a full, dark head of hair. I was quickly reminded of why this was a good idea (the drugs helped a bit) and we are so blessed with a happy, healthy little girl.