Welcome Sasha!

At 12:47 am little Sasha was born!

Even at 4 weeks early she is a healthy size weighing in at 7 lbs 12 oz and 20 inches in length!

Here is the first pic of her with her proud papa :)

After some time in the recovery room we were taken to our room at 3 am which would be home for at least a couple of days for my post-surgery recovery time.

The rest of the day was all about sleep and cuddling with our little girl :)

At the hospital

We arrived at BC Women's at 8:30 am and were taken right away to our private birthing room. By now I've been experiencing contractions since 6:30 pm last night. The bad ones really didn't start until about 4 am...lucky me ;)

I made it through the natural labour to a full 10 cm dilated, but by 9pm it became clear the little one wasn't going to drop enough. And the head was turned the wrong way!

So after receiving my epideral (I had officially reached my pain threshold after 26 1/2 hours of labour already!) we decided on a c-section after being told the baby was not lickely going to drop any further. If the baby dropped they could have used forceps to turn it around to finish off the natural birth. But after being told I could try pushing for another hour or two and likely it still wouldn't drop far enough I voted for the c-section. Not going to push any longer for no reason!

Then it was the waiting game until surgery. This pic is me and Mark waiting to move on to the next stage. Me doped up and him in his scrubs. An emergency c-section was a head of us, and then as they were wheeling me in for my turn, the obstitrician was called away for another labour...and I was wheeled back for some more waiting time in my room.

Finally, at midnight, I was taken into the surgery room. Mark had to wait 'til I was prepped before he could join me...

36 weeks...

So, I was going to post another belly pic for this weekend to mark the end of the eigth month...but it seems that our little one has decided to start coming early!

This is a picture of the Brit Baby Bellies, me and & Marina who is due in July. Good thing I brought my camera for this pic as it will be the last of me with my baby on the inside.

15 minutes before my shift ended at 5:30 my water started breaking! I rushed home to call the midwife and she said the labour would begin within 24 hours. Sure enough, my contractions began within half an hour!

Hey Mom...Happy Birthday! Looks like your grandchild wants to be a gift to you too!

Let the labour begin...

Good news official!

With 6 weeks to go we officially recieved the a-okay from Dr. Rhone and are now in the complete care of our trusty midwives! Yeepa!

Though it's become somewhat intimidating to constantly have little gem referred to as a "big big baby" I am totally reassured by the fact that so far we are both happy and healthy. :)