Pictures!

It's a girl!

Lydia Joyce Mathews arrived healthy and happy at 8:45PM EST, last night. She was 8lbs, 1oz, and was 21 inches long. We'll have a recap of the day posted soon as well as pictures as Katelyn and Titus are now here and have met their little sister!

Baby is here!

Our third little one checked in at 8:45PM EST. Once we made it to the hospital, after refusing to come out for the past week, the little one decided it was time get a move on it, and shortly after the little one was born. Due to the fact it is getting late and we haven't been able to get a hold of all the family we would like to tell in person, we will post gender, name, weight, length, etc, tomorrow, along with pictures to go with this new one. But we thank you all for your prayers as baby is doing great, as is Colleen, and the whole process couldn't have gone better!

(Sorry to keep other family and friends in suspense! I promise info and pictures will be up in the morning!)

The time is near...

I had to leave the delivery room briefly, enough time to open my laptop and type a brief message, but Colleen is about ready. She's 7-8 cms dilated and the contractions are strong and frequent. It's about 8PM EST and I would expect a baby within the next 2 hours, possibly less! To this point, everything appears to be going well. We will pray that it continues that way.

And we're off...

The contractions have begun, as of about 4AM Sunday morning. We're still at home and probably will be for a few more hours, but we expect that hopefully before the end of the day (Sunday), there will be a new little member of our family.

No baby news to report

The sonogram and non-stress test went well, but baby still seems happy where it is at...

More baby news

Colleen had another dr. appt this morning and she was found to be 2-3 cm dilated, so that is encouraging (after being virtually no cm dilated on Friday). The Dr. also said he has scheduled an induction for next Tuesday, which would be a week overdue (sorry, the dates keep changing, but I'm fairly confident this one will stick). He did feel like at this point, there is a good chance she will "go" before then, though, so he thought the chances were that she wouldn't need to be induced.

He also wanted Colleen to get another ultrasound (this will be #4) and a non-stress test, which he said were normal when babies were overdue, just to make sure the baby has enough fluids and such. So those are in the process of being scheduled, but at least we feel there is a light at the end of the tunnel!

A video from the past

I came across this video of Katelyn when she was the same age as Titus is now (she was about 2 weeks younger than Titus is now, to be exact). Needless to say, she was a tad more advanced than Titus is at 22 months. He is not quite to this level.

No baby yet...

No baby, no contractions, no seeming anything....much to the disappointment of Colleen.

On another front, I had my followup with the Dr. regarding my wrist and was given the all clear. The bone is healed and I no longer need a cast/brace, so that was good to hear. It will still take at least a couple of weeks to begin to get all the strength and flexibility back, but we're making progress.

Another baby update

After some dicussion and thought, we've decide the Wednesday induction is probably a little sooner than we want to see the baby induced (though we'd love if it would come on its own by then). Considering Colleen's due date is only Tuesday, we've decided to shoot for Monday tentatively for induction. The Dr. is still setting up his schedule to confirm if that is possible, but that's what we're now hopefully looking at.

Hopefully induction won't come into play, though, and the baby will decide to come on its own.