Asher Edward is Here!

Little Asher Edward decided to throw a curve ball and come two weeks early!! I woke up Thursday morning with a few of the same indications I had with Noah the day before he was born. With Noah, the minor cramping and other things happened all day before I went into labor, so this time I decided to go ahead and take Noah to "school" and go on to work, especially since I had an appointment with my OB at 10:30. Well, Asher was a little more anxious than Noah was. My water broke at 10:00 am while I was at work getting ready to leave for my appointment. I went to the doc, she sent me to the hospital, and Asher was born at 2:41 pm weighing 6lbs 12oz and was 19 1/2 inches long.

Billy is coming home this Friday, Oct. 30th, for 3 weeks. Our plan was for him to be here for the birth, but obviously Asher decided he wasn't going to wait around. Fortunately, the hospital has wireless internet and we got to Skype. Billy was with me on the computer for most of the labor. About 20 minutes before Asher was born, I was 5-6 cm dilated and then we lost our connection with Billy. The contractions started coming hard and fast and I was 9.5 cm in no time. There were about 5 people in the room trying to get Billy back on the computer but we had no luck. We got reconnected with him about 2 minutes after Asher was born. So he kind of missed the actual delivery, but at least he was there for everything else.

We came home Saturday morning and we're doing good! It's a big adjustment, and Asher took two of my weekends away, so the to do list hasn't been completed, but we'll make it!