Kaitlyn Marie Block

Here is our precious little girl. She is absolutely perfect!! She weighed 6 pounds 12 ounces at birth and is 18.5 inches in length. She measured a 9 out of 10 for the Apgar test - 10's are rarely given.

My water broke at 12:30am on Thursday morning and I had the baby at 5:22pm that same day. I labored for 12 hours and was told that I was only dilated to 1 cm. It was then that I decided to get a shot of narcotics. They also decided to give me pitocin...and then I decided what the heck I'll get the epidural. That helped out tremendously. By 3pm I was dilated to 6 cm and by 4:40 I was at 10 cm. I pushed for 45 minutes and it wasn't all that bad. More to come later...