Well, this was another Amazon woman birthing experience, producing the gorgeous 6lb, 9oz Katherine Lois Wright. Keri's uterus had been muscling up for weeks and so things moved quickly on August 4th from her first painful contractions at 2:30 am, to waking me up, bleary-eyed and incredulous, at 4am to taking the girls to our neighbors, Jim and Lea, at 5:20am to arriving at the hospital at 5:40am to holding Katherine at 6:49am. The obstetrician and nurses commented on how Keri was laughing through labor, since they'd only seen this before in a mother after her epidural.
The staff really were wonderful, largely in what they did not do. They placed Katherine on Keri with the cord still pulsing and left her there for over an hour, allowing Keri to nurse for almost two hours before they did all the weighing and washing, etc.
Jim and Lea, who were absolutely wonderful, brought Sophie and Emma over to see their sister later that morning. They even got to help with her first bath! Grandma and Opa arrived from California later on that evening and kept them for the night.
We left the hospital the next afternoon, hearing and all the other checks being OK.
Sophie and Emma are proving to be loving big sisters.
Our little bowhead, just out of her first bath.(A note from Keri about her name: Katherine Lois is named for her two grandmothers, and her names mean "pure" and "more desirable" respectively, both of Greek origin. We're thinking of Phil. 4:8 as her life verse: "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.")
