She's here!!!!

Here's the vitals and if you want the full story you can continue reading.

Name: Claire Katelin Plowman
Born: May 2, 2007 4:14 pm MDT
Weight: 6 lbs 10 oz
Height: 19.5 inches
Beauty: She's an 11!
Cuteness: Unmeasurable
Health: Great! and mom is doing well too.

So, the regular weekly checkup on May 1 turned out to be anything but. Melissa had slightly high blood pressure, so after monitoring her for a bit the doctor recommended that Melissa have the baby! Needless to say we were not prepared for that. So after talking and praying about this we felt like this was the best option so here's what happened.

We get to LDS hospital and about midnight we get into the room. The doctors start her on some medication to help her body prepare more for labor with the intent the following morning to get her on Petosin to really get things started. However after the three doses of the medicine (I can't remember the name and probably couldn't spell it anyway) she was responding well. The doctor broke her water the next morning, May 2 at about 8:30. That really got things going. She immediately started having hard contractions lasting about a minute with 20-30 seconds in between. After enduring this Melissa felt it was time for the epidural. Unfortunately the anastesiologist was in a c-section so it was another hour before he got there. He was the hero though was he arrived. Melissa immediately stopped feeling all the pain.

At about 3:15 the doctor felt like she was ready to start pushing. She pushed for about an hour during which she threw-up a few times. The nurses said it helped because it was better than her regular pushing but Melissa was miserable. She was so tough and after the hour was up we had a beautiful baby girl. Watching Claire being born was the most amazing thing I've seen. There is no doubt that God is involved in our lives. Melissa and I have said several times since she's been born "How did we create something so beautiful." We know that she has come straight from heaven because she is definitely a perfect little angel. Enjoy the pictures and thanks everyone for your prayers and thoughts.

First family pic minutes after birth.



She's definitely all girl!

Being born is such a lot work!!

Proud new dad!

Claire, our little angel

Mom and daughter, what's better than this?