She has Arrived!!

Last blog entry I made I was six, seven months pregnant but no longer.

Laura June Watt was born on Decemeber 14, 2009 at 8:18 am, weighing in at 7 lbs 14 1/2 ozs and 19 1/2 inches long.

She was born after 12 hours of labour. I absolutely hate being pregnant but I love giving birth. My water broke and it took me a few hours to be sure that it had/track my parents down at my grandparents so they could come get Grace. Once Grace was picked up we went to the hospital where they induced me right away. That was a pleasent surprise. When Grace was born I was sent home after my water broke to wait until I was in more labour. I was told I would have my baby in 48 hours but to go home and come back in 12 so they could reassess me. I'm so glad those days are over. I wouldn't have waited to go to the hospital for so long if I knew the policy had changed. After I got an epidural Stuart feel asleep. It took a lot of work to get him to wake up for show time. A lot of work. I almost lost it on him as he sat on his camp bed instead of coming up to me to help me through everything.

Unfortunately--or not--depending on who you ask, Stu had an exam three hours after Laura was born. He got to miss it, children being born is a good excuse, and wrote it two days later. He got perfect on it. He's so smart.

Laura looks just like her Uncle Jeff did when he was a baby. Well, Jeff without the dark hair, dark eyes and tannable skin. Sorry kids but you inherited my skin.

Grace is the greatest big sister ever. She loves her sister so much and shows her "baby" to everyone we meet when we leave the house. Grace kisses her, hugs her, always wants to give her a soother (even though Laura is anti-soother most of the time) and pushes Laura in her swing.

Grace is hardly ever jealous which I am very greatful for.

However, Laura doesn't like to sleep at night. Well, she's getting better at sleeping at night but still enjoys to get up and party. She loves to cuddle so I spend most of my time rocking her, holding her and telling her how wonderful she is. I am so very grateful that Grace is so independent. She is happy to just be in the same room as me as I try to make Laura happy. Grace doesn't get upset when her sister cries but she does run to me saying "oh dear" and then tries to "sush" her.

Life is pretty hectic. I haven't slept more than four solid hours in almost a month but we wouldn't change this for the world.