She has arrived!

I'm pleased, honored & excitied to announce the arrival of Isabel Grace. She was delivered at 10:21am Saturday morning, without any major complications. She weighed in at 7 lbs, 2 oz and is 21 inches long.

Both Mom and baby are doing fantastic. They're happy and healthy, and are resting in the hospital until Monday.

For those good at math, you can see that labor only lasted about 5 or 6 hours. We got to the hospital around 7am, and things got started quickly. She was already dilated to a 5. About an hour later (after some very intense contractions) she was at an 8. It didn't take long after that to be fully dilated. The doc came in, broke her water, and we were off to the races. She started pushing at about 10am, and delivered shortly thereafter. Everything went by really fast... much faster than I ever expected.

The kicker is that Mom never needed any drugs. She is such a strong person... I never could have done it! It wasn't something that we planned on, but the quick labor and her strong will prevailed.

I'm home for the night. Had to take care of the cats and a few other things. I'll be headed back in the morning. If you want to leave any comments, I'll print them off in the morning and bring them in for Mom.

Take care,
Dad