It's a Girl!!

The weather hadn't been very co-operative, so I was stuck taking the bus. Somehow, I managed an amazing connection and got home at 5:45pm. Kelly and David were out, picking up our cat who had teeth pulled that day. I put some dinner together and my family soon joined me. Tuesday the cat looked hilarious in her little T-Shirt (to keep her from going after her tiny drug patch). She was dubbed "Teen Wolf" by my sister. Perfect.

Kelly mentioned she was feeling some discomfort. I laughed and told her she was in labour most likely. I got the watch out and the contractions were about 13 and a half minutes apart. No worries. We continued on, getting David ready for a bath. Kelly kept me up to date on the contraction situation (still 13 minutes apart).

In the middle of the bath, with little warning, she was suddenly down to 6 minutes apart. I wasn't aware that they could change this quickly, I figured it was more gradual. We had to kick it up a notch. I got David out of the tub and ready for a road trip. We gathered up all of his Hot Wheels cars, made sure we had our own provisions and loaded up the Nissan.

In the car, Kelly was in obvious discomfort. And the contractions were now 3 minutes apart. Shit! I was really worried we'd have the baby in the car. Got to Grandma and Granpa's house and unloaded David and his gear. Kelly foolishly came to the door, barely able to walk. David cried and didn't want Mom to go. We sped off to the Peter Lougheed. It was around 8:35pm.

I really hate the check in system when you're giving birth. How stupid is it that Dad (me) has to go down 2 floors to check in two different times? Don't we need to be by the side of our better half? Anyway....

It didn't take long for them to figure out we were not going to be leaving without a child. Kelly was now in the delivery room. Our nurse was a champ. Thank you for all of your help Ingrid!! Kelly's contractions were really intense, lots more pain than with David. She hollered for some drugs for pain. Little did we know there just wasn't going to be time.

Ingrid was the only one in the room with us, no doctors were there yet. Kelly's contractions were very close together now and very painful. Ingrid told us the baby would be here very soon (I thought she was kidding, just being a good coach). She got on the intercom and asked for a doctor ASAP.

At 9:39pm on Nov 5, I became a father for the second time. Julia Ann weighed in at a healthy 7 lbs, 4 3/4 oz and was just over 20 inches long. Mom was amazing!!! We both shed tears of joy as I cut the cord and baby Julia was set down on Mom's chest. 3 and a half hours between supper and birth. holy cow, Kel, you don't waste time do you??

What an amazing few years it has been. So many ups and downs, stressful times. 2007 was a tough year, dealing with the pitfalls of parenthood and a failed pregnancy. We got through, baby. I'm more proud of you, Kelly, than you can possibly imagine.

:-)