and we almost didn't make it!!!
We had a 6 and a half pound little girl within 10 minutes of arriving at the hospital. More details soon. She's healthy and looks a lot like her Dad. Thank God it happened Sunday and not Monday after Dad had left for work.
We are just ecstatic.
I am a professor at a primarily undergraduate institution. My spouse is a research professor and works two hours' drive away. This blog is primarily about life at a PUI, but also about our family trying to make the most of an uncomfortable lifestyle.
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Congrats! Best wishes to your family!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!!!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats!!! Glad everyone is healthy!
ReplyDeleteCongrats!! And wow, that's cutting it close!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on your new arrival -- AND making it to the hospital!
ReplyDeleteCongrats. Good luck over the next little while as you all settle in.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! I'm glad Dad was around for the arrival, too.
ReplyDeleteYeah! Congratulations! What a happy story!
ReplyDeleteWooHoo, that's awesome.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! Induction would have taken longer, I'm sure - probably for the best that you waited for your daughter to announce her own arrival.
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
ReplyDeleteYay, congratulations!
ReplyDeleteHow great that Dad was there.
#2 is just as much of a trip as #1, but different as well. Enjoy the ride!
congrats!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! It sounds like it all went perfectly. So happy for you :)
ReplyDelete10 minutes??? Holy cow. Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWow! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteHow exciting! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Glad everyone is well :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! BTW, I am the anonymous commuter marriage commenter who posted the long story about my husband almost not making it to the delivery of my second son. See, the second one really can go much faster! :) I have been thinking of you lots and I am SO GLAD that your husband dear was able to be there for the birth of #2. Good wishes and blessings to you and your expanded family.
ReplyDeleteCongrats! And yay for girls!
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the beautiful baby girl and on her wonderful timing!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! -Lauren (just discovered this blog!)
ReplyDeleteSqueaked it in there, congratulations!
ReplyDeleteWow, congratulations! I am now reading the tease that is your birth story - waiting on the edge of my seat, even with the little summary here ;) So happy for you!
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