Still pregnant? Not anymore!!

Well I guess that I get to update the blog since Andrea did all of the work last night. So at 8:00 Thursday night, Andrea's water broke. We were sitting on the couch finishing a delicious supper and she jumped up and said "I think my water just broke." We cleaned her up and then called the doctor. He said to be at the hospital within 2 hours. Around 9:00 Andrea started having real contractions instead of the Braxton Hicks that she had been having. So we finished packing and did a load of laundry and made our way to the hospital.

We got to the hospital at 10:00, got checked in, and they did an exam of Andrea's progress. She was 2.5 cm dilated and fully effaced with the baby in a good, low position. We moved into our room, got an IV and the nurse gave Andrea some pain medicine. It seemed to help for about an hour and then the contractions got pretty strong. Andrea decided that she wanted to get an epidural so that she would not be too worn out when it came time to push. She got the epidural around 12:30 and they did another exam once it was working good. She was 5 cm, 2.5 cm in 2.5 hours. Then our families showed up. McKee grandparents got here around 12:45 and Jacobs grandparents around 2:15. At 3:00, the nurse did another exam on Andrea and she was already 10 cm, which is impressive considering that most first time mothers only dilate 1 cm every hour after 5 cm. Andrea had done 5 cm in 3 hours! So the nurse said that whenever she felt the urge to push to call her and she would check to see how the baby was moving in the pelvis. She started pushing around 3:30 and Maggie was moving great. At 3:45, the doctor was brought in to deliver our beautiful bundle of joy.She was born at 3:57. She weighed 7 lbs, 9 ozs and is 19 in. long. She is more beautiful and precious than we could have ever expected.

God is so incredible and the birth of a child is truly a miracle. We have been blessed more than we could imagine and are so thankful that God demonstrated His grace to us through this little child.