A few favorite pictures.

Here are a few choice picture selections. They're already on the linked Facebook album from the previous post, but I thought I'd put a few here too. :) - Dustin

Aubrey's Here!

We've been slacking off on the updates, our apologies. Ms. Aubrey Belle was born on Monday November 9th at 9:38pm. She was 6 pounds 6 ounces and 20 inches long. Her head was 13 1/2 inches around.

Aubrey was a week overdue and so we scheduled Kristina to be induced at 5am Monday morning. Once things really started happening the contractions were pretty frequent, every couple of minutes and she was up to 3 or 4 centimeters dilated when she opted for the epidural

I took a short nap after all of that, and when I woke up the doctor said that Aubrey's heartrate was dropping after each contraction which was an indication she was tired. The first strategy was to stop the pitocin drip and start it back up lower, but then Aubrey's head was face up so that's when we decided to get a c-section. Based on what was going on with the heartrate it really was the safest option, although it was the last thing we both wanted.

However, I must say maybe it was a blessing in disguise because the extended hospital stay has been helpful. The little girl has been having issues breastfeeding, primarily she just wants to sleep. The nurses have been very very helpful and so I'm thinking God knew we were unprepared (we took no classes) and we needed extra time here at the hospital.

I was posting updates throughout the day on Twitter, and now have a growing baby album on Facebook.

Here are some of the videos I've got on Youtube too:

Early on in the labor process:


Not long after her delivery:



Rocking with Daddy on her 2nd morning in the world: