Unto us a child is born! Name TBA...

On Saturday Dec 4 (a few days after the Dec 1 guess date) I woke up at 2:03 with contractions. They were close together - mostly 3 minutes apart - and I called the midwife at about 3:45. I don't think I realized how close they were and I should have called an hour earlier. Who knew the baby would come in two and a half hours!

My water broke at 4:20 and pushing began almost immediately - I was afraid I couldn't make it to the birthing pool in the living room (but I did). Joseph called the midwife again and she was just getting off the freeway. The baby was crowning before she got in the house and we completed our first water birth at 4:34 am. He was calm and didn't cry for quite awhile. He was 8 lbs 8 oz of perfection and 21 1/2inches long.



With our midwife Nanci Stanley, Samuel, and baby no-name-yet.






He looks a lot like Luke, but that name is taken.

8 months pregnant

I look a little like a pumpkin in the rust-colored shirt, but I am okay with tha because I love my new haircut! I can feel the cool fall air rushing through one ear and right out the other.

50 days to go

Here's the "around 7-months progress" taken with 53 days to go. This was the "not lifting like a dancer should" photo so I could look as big as possible.