Baby Olivia Marie Rena!

On February 24th, 2014 at 7:44pm, Olivia Marie Rena (pronounced Renee) was born.  She was 7 pounds, 6 ounces and 18 inches long.  She was also born with a full head of hair, much to my surprise :)  Her middle names comes from each of her grandmothers' middle names.

 

Approximately 4:30am - went to the hospital after over 2 hours of contractions at about 5 minutes apart.  I had been having contractions most of Sunday the 23rd but it wasn't until about 9pm that they started to get stronger and closer together.

 

The goal - healthy mom/baby.  We didn't know what we were having 

but fingers crossed for a healthy baby.

 

I progressed most of the day very quickly - I was at 8 centimeters by about 9 or 10am.  However, things stalled at 8 centimeters and after over 2 hours of intense contractions at this dilation, I opted for an epidural.  Lindy had been there most of the day and I was in too much pain to even chat with her - after the epidural we were chatting about TV shows and movies.  We even watched a few episodes of "Friends" on TV in the room :)  Sherri came by after she got off work from her first day at her new job - literally the day she requested the baby not be born on.  Sorry, Sherri!

 

Baby Olivia is born!  They swept her away pretty quickly to get her cleaned up and suction her lungs, but I realized that no one had announced what gender the baby was.  I called out to Kevin to ask and he quickly ran over and said, "It's a boy!"  Then he went back over to the baby and realized that it was the umbilical cord and he was actually a she.  We were both in shock because I think we were both pretty convinced we were having a boy (mostly because the whole Triplett side of the family are boys).  This was a very pleasant surprise :)

 

Olivia and me - such a pretty baby

 

Lindy, Sherri, Matt and Jim Joe were all waiting in the waiting room playing 

Mexican Train waiting for the baby to be born.  Once they all came in 

we told them that the baby was a girl.  They were excited :)

 

My parents were not ready to come down since Olivia was four days early, but they left 

Monday night after work and got to the hospital around 11pm that night.  They were very 

excited to meet their granddaughter.  My mom didn't believe Kevin when he called her 

on their way to tell her that we had a girl.  She said she had to see the baby to believe it :)

                                                       Welcome to the family Olivia!