AUTHOR: NYCmom TITLE: Baby Girl Arrives DATE: 3/20/2008 09:46:00 PM ----- BODY:

Our baby girl (as yet unnamed) arrived at 10:10 pm on March 20, 2008, weighing in at 8 lbs. 13 oz. She was born at Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. We arrived at the hospital to induce delivery around 8:30AM. However the hospital was very busy - almost at capacity. So we had to wait for a room, and then wait for Pitocin (the drug that induces delivery), and then wait for the anesthesiologist to start the epidural, and then wait for the OB/GYN to finish with some other deliveries. It made for a long day. Jen seemed so perk though. She was ready to walk home after the baby was taken care of. She's getting to be a real pro at this baby thing.

Baby did very well. She grunts a lot, in a sort of complaining way. Her blood sugar plummeted shortly after birth (as expected), which sent the nurses scrambling to feed her and get an IV of glucose going. As you can see from the pictures, she is already looking around.

Jen and I are still debating names. But we have a few in mind. We're waiting for the her to get cleaned up and for some of the swelling to go down so that we can see what she looks like. (Don't all babies look alike?)

Jackson and Sydney spent the day with April White and Valerie Thompson, two very helpful and charitable women in our ward. Thank you ladies! And thanks to their husbands for allowing their wives to entertain our little princess diva and martial-arts expert.

After I've edited some video, I'll post some clips of baby doing some arm waving and crying.

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