After a fairly sleepless night, Chris and Kate headed to the hospital for a 7am scheduled inducement. Kate wasn't thrilled about being induced, but she WAS thrilled about the prospect of seeing Meredith soon. After checking in and getting Kate strapped up to some heart monitors and such, the fun began! Before the pitocin had even started, Kate had a doozy of a contraction (7 minutes!) that threw Meredith off a little (which she demonstrated by performing a little heart stopping trick)...But eventually we got things started and all went smoothly for a few hours. Kate waited a good while before requesting the epidural and she certainly appreciated it once it began working its magic. Meredith, however, wasn't so crazy about it. She pulled another little look-ma-i-can-make-my-heart-slow-down-trick and had the nurses instructing mom to roll over, stand on her head, and other such fun activities. Meredith recovered, but after that we did start calling her Drama Queen. From that point it was smooth sailing -- right into 3 hours of steady and intense pushing for Kate. At 8:49pm Meredith Jubilee Lareau, in all her glory, came out to meet us. From the first moment -- and for hours afterward -- she was amazingly alert and responsive (and did we mention GORGEOUS?). She was 7 and 1/2 pounds and 20 3/4 inches..with lots of pretty light brown hair, rosy skin and a perfect little kissable mouth.
A BRAVE NEW GIRL
HAPPY DADDY
THANKS, DR RUFFIN!
HAPPY MOMMY
HI, I'M MEREDITH.
2 comments:
Hey Lareaus!
Congratulations! Meredith is beautiful! Woo hoo!
Charles
Way to go, Kate! She is perfect! I'm so proud of and for you. You are in my thoughts. Congratulations!
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