Pre Trip Report: Part 27 - The One with Baby Emma Well, we have come to the update that I know many of you have been eagerly anticipating as today is the big day. That's right - today was Olivia's first day of Vacation Bible School - and she was pumped! Oh wait, was there something else that you all were interested in? Oh that's right - today's is the day Emma was to be born. A like a good DIS Trip Reporter I will drag the story out through multiple updates, various dining reports, and 50 pictures of a parade ... ok, I won't do that. In fact I will tell you right now that Emma was born today and both she and Judi are doing great! Though I will make you wait until the end of this post for pictures of Emma. And I will go back a one day just to let you know that we spent the day before the expected birth date taking it easy ... by completely re-arranging our 2nd floor and moving Olivia into her the "girls room", setting up the crib, getting Peter's new dresser set up, setting p the new guest room ... you know, the usual. Oh, we also got both cars ready to handle three kids. Will be a bit of a tight in mine, but we tought it to fit: We also decided to use our new fire pit for the first time and roasted marshmallows. The kids were super excited about it: Ok, moving on to today. We actually didn't need to be to the hospital until 10am so I actually did take Olivia to her first day of VBS - and to show her mom where to go to pick her up - and we finished getting everything together and then headed out - getting there pretty much right at 10am. We had pre-registered so the process of getting settled was pretty easy. They brought us to the pre-natal room and we started to fill out more forms including for the birth certificate and signed off on other things like saying we know we shouldn't shake the baby (at least we didn't have to watch the video this time). After getting hooked up to all sorts of tubes they took Judi to the OR and I got dressed in scrubs - great look right? I got into the room and sat down by Judi's head, took her hand and they pretty much started slicing her up. It is a little bit of a weird thing seeing doctors you just met cutting open your wife and just kinda moving body parts out of the way - but hey, they have to do what they have to do. So all the nurses were commenting at how big they expected Emma to be - and while Olivia was pretty typical, Peter was rather huge - 9lb 12 oz ... so another big baby would not have been surprising but I was not quite expecting the doctor to yell out "WOW!" after pulling the baby out. But the important thing is that everything looked good and hearing her cry is definitely a top 3 moment in my life. They brought me over to the table to look at her and take pictures - and walk me by a great view of seeing Judi's insides before they put her back together ... and with that I give you Emma's first publicly released photo when she was all of 10 minutes old: We then brought Emma back around so Judi could see her and the nurse offered to take pictures of us - and snap away she did ... might be a closet Photo Pass photographer. I thought this one was nice - first picture of the parents with their new daughter: I then went with the nurse to bring Emma to the nursery to get cleaned up and take her measurements and she weighed in at ... 7lbs 5oz - so not big at all (actually the exact same s Olivia). She is a little long (20") and definitely skinny. I then went back to the first room and waiting for them to finish up with Judi and bring her back. A bit later they brought in Emma for her first feeding - which she did great with! They did some final checks on Judi and waiting for the feeling in her legs to come back - while we took the time to call our parents and let them know everyone was doing well. We then went to the post-partem room and after a bit they brought Emma in to be with us. So here is a picture of her all cleaned up: And another - we've started the Lehigh brainwashing: And that's where we are. Judi's doing great - other than the fact they said she can't have anything to eat until tomorrow morning kinda bumming her out. Her parents will bring the other kids over later and if I can get a good pic of all three kids I'll add that later. TTFN
And great deal on the rental car/van. Gotta love getting that last minute lower price. 
And the bedroom looks tranquil too. Nice job Phil! 
) and Marie was the first person to tell me it probably back in 2007. *shakes head* And people did use to rhyme my name with hamburger because my last name was Grear and Amber Grear if you say it fast... *sigh* Mother. Why didn't you foresee this trouble? All my life.
