She's Here!!!!

Hadley Emily Pettigrew was born Monday, August 29 at 5:34 AM. She weighed 7 lbs, 4 oz and was 18 inches long. She is so beautiful and we are so excited to have her here!!!

The labor and delivery lasted about 12 hours from the start of contractions to delivery. My water broke at the house at 3:15 Sunday afternoon and we headed to the hospital around 5:00 pm. I started having regular contractions around 6:00 pm and they let me labor on my own for a while before giving me some Pitocin to speed things up around 10 pm and then they gave me an epidural around 12:30 am when the pain was getting pretty intense. A few hours later she was ready to be delivered and was here after only less than 10 minutes of pushing (five pushes)!!! I have to say that the labor and delivery went very very smoothly and I couldn't have asked for more. We are back home now from the hospital and trying to get settled in to life as a new family. What an experience!