Introducing Emma Gayle...

Mom and Dad: tired as all get-out, and happier than that.
Emma Gayle: sleeping, eating great, and beautiful.
Here's the story:
On our last visit to the doctor, she informed us she would be going out of town before our due date of June 6th. She had, therefore, scheduled us to be induced on Thursday, June 3rd, so we would not have to deliver with another doctor. We had a few days to talk about it, and given Diane's comfortable feeling with our regular doctor and dislike of change (and other factors) we decided to go for it.
Thursday, June 3rd--
6:30am--Soon to be Mom and Dad, with "bun in oven" arrive at hospital and are placed in nice big LDR (labor, deliver, and recovery) room.
7:40am--Nurses administer Pitocin to Diane to start contractions...and sure enough the contractions start.
7:45am-10:00am (at 3-4 minute intervals)--the contractions keep coming. Diane was excellent at breathing through them.
10:00am--Contractions slow a bit, Jeremy quickly runs to the cafeteria (through a ridiculous labrynth of hospital corridors...think lab-rat in some sort of mad scientest maze) for a coffee and breakfast.
10:07am--Jeremy returns to the LDR room.
11:00am-ish--Diane rediscovers a childhood love of orange popsicles (she repeats rediscovery 3 more times throughout the day).
11:30am-3:30pm--Repeat of morning contractions. Again, Diane does wonderfully with the breathing.
4:00pm--The Reeves Family (Terry, Sharri, Jason and Janee') arrive to cheer on the soon to be new dad and laboring mom.
8:00pm--The hospital room had cable, so by this time we had watched almost 12 hours of home-improvement television and talked about all the ideas for our new (to us) home, all the while breathing through contractions.
9:00pm--Diane has dilated to 6 centimeters, and progress has seemes slow. Almost-new mom is getting discouraged.
10:00pm--3 of Diane's friends (Nancy, Traci, and Amy) arrive at hospital to offer encouragement. This was just the thing to get Diane over the edge.
10:25pm-ish--Three friends leave, and immediately Diane is ready to go! "Thanks for coming, friends! It was just what Diane needed!"
10:45pm-ish--Doctor arrives, and Diane starts pushing.
11:08pm--Emma Gayle arrives! Dad bursts out with unintelligible cave-man-esque burbles of joy, and he's pretty sure he remembers a few tears (but just a few).

Emma Gayle, beautifully round-shaped head, narrow heels like her mom, button-nosed face, and skin as smooth as a baby's butt (I guess that goes without saying), arrived to the inexpressable love of her parents, grandparents, aunt and uncles. She weighed 6 pounds 11 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Needless to say, she's perfect (total depravity aside).

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