2 weeks...

A few more updated pictures from this week. She is a very good baby. Not too fussy (cries for dirty diapers and food) and sleeps for 2-3 hours at a time. Mostly during the day but...

We went out for St. Patty's Day to Barleycorn's on Wed to meet the family. The table by the band (and a huge speaker) and she slept the whole time. Was up the majority of the night but whatever... :-)

Slept through her first grocery store trip and having friends over towatch the Xavier game so will be a great bar baby :-)

Welcome Maura!

She's here! Maura Terese arrived on 3/10/09 at 6:23pm. After arriving at the hospital about 11:30 Monday night we were about to head home. The doctor said to go in to be checked but when we got here everything was fine however my water broke as we were standing up to leave. So instead we got a room :-)

Had contractions all night but they were only about 10-15 minutes apart. By about 6:30 they were more regular and steady. Got pretty bad about 8am so we started petossin and the epidural came by 11 or so.

Progressed well and was 9cm at about 2:00 but she was facing sideways instead of down so they put me on/in a tire tube in the bed to help her turn. She eventually turned and we started pushing about 3:30. 3 hours later she arrived and we were all exhausted!

Should be coming home sometime this afternoon!

5cm and counting

We are at the hospital. Called the dr last night b/c I was really tight but no contractions. he said to get checked out. so went to the hospital and they said all is well but just early labor. as i stand up to get dressed water breaks all over. so they admitted me last night about 12:30. contractions all night but not bad till 7 or so. just got epidural so all is right with the world. 5cm and counting

"Could be tomorrow, could be 2 weeks"

"Could be tomorrow, could be 2 weeks". Love the scientific nature of labor! As of Friday I am 2cm dilated and 50% effaced so we will see. Baby Franzen has dropped (so I can breathe) but I am peeing all the time. More back/hip pain has set in so sleeping and most activities are a lot more uncomfortable...

We had another wonderful shower this weekend given by Aunt Karma and Aunt Mona! Last weekend we had a shower with dad's family on Saturday and one with Jeff's family on Sunday. Both were great and everyone has been overly generous with time and treasure! We are now officially overrun with baby stuff! The car seat has been professionally installed so we can bring her/him home so now we just wait.