Of course, he's perfect He was 9 pounds, 2 oz and 22 inches long. He was barely a day past due, although I think my doc had him arriving on his edd.

Active labor kicked in around midnight or so, and he was born at 4:00 a.m. By the time we got to the hospital, I was nearly 8 cm, so no epi for me. It was painful but the recovery has been great!

So far, things are going well. My milk came in and nursing has been a breeze thus far.

Hope everyone here is doing well. Paula - I hope to hear from you and see how you're doing. You're almost there!!!

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Kate
hcg @ 12 dpo 95.4, Progesterone 18
@ 17 dpo 960.6
@ 26 dpo 28,970.8
Heartrate @ 33 dpo (6w5d) 130

Beansie's EDD: May 12 (arrived May 10)
Lucky Clover's EDD: July 2 (arrived July 3)
Little Boo's EDD: January 25 (arrived January 31)
Heartrate @ 8w3d 174

Yay Kate!!! Happy Birth Day to Theo!!! (a few days late )
I seem to check back on here at just the right times recently.

Thats wonderful to hear that your labor and delivery was relatively brief at the hospital, and awesome about no epi. I have heard such good things about recovery if you are able to go natural, as opposed to feeling groggy etc. It seems worth the pain to be up and about much quicker. I sure hope my L&D at the hospital goes just as well.

I'm getting really excited, it took me a while to really get into this pg becase I had lots of fears in the beginning (which sometimes still pop-up) but she's so active and lively it's reassuring. Can't wait to meet her in 9 weeks! Only other news is I dropped down to a different military insurance plan so I could choose to deliver at a civilian hospital here. And hired a doula so I feel like that will be a help in achieving a natural birth.

I'm glad to here nursing is going well, Perry is still hanging in there so it looks like I'll be tandeming. Keeping my fingers crossed that it goes smoothly.
BTW: How is big sis adjusting?

Congratulations!
I see there are some more congrats posts I need to get to.

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Congratulations, Kate! I'm glad things went so well for you and L & D. I can't wait to see pics!

Congratulations, Kate! I'm glad your labor went so smoothly! Did I miss the name?

Becky

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Mom to

Logan 5 years old

Lance 3 years old

Lauren 22 months old

Kate!! So glad all went well!