And then there were five...

Welcome, Capri!

Capri Roberts

Born Saturday August 14th, 2010

12:51 am

7 lbs. 15 oz. 20 1/2 inches

How it all happened...

(This is mostly for my own sake as sometimes my blog serves as my journal, so you can skip to the pics, if you want.)

Yesterday (Fri.) I kept praying to go into labor since Caleb was able to come home a whole day early (he got home Thurs. night as his Dr. went out of town this weekend) and the whole thing would be perfect timing. Well, I had a HORRIBLE night's sleep Thurs. night (itching and heartburn) and got up at 6 am with a few contractions. They actually started to hurt more and more and I had them fairly consistently from 7:30am -8:30am and I was just about to go to the hospital when they completely and stopped suddenly. I was pretty bummed. So we decided to go walk around the Greenbelt which is roughly 2.4 (?) miles to see if we could get things going again. Plus it was the "Roaring Youth Jam" free event and we were going to take our kids to it anyway. Our kids had a blast and we were there for four hours (11:30-3:30). All this time I was having contractions but they were completely random--some 12 min. apart, some 8 min. then I'd go a half hour and not have any at all.

We went home and put our kids down for naps and I took a nap too and the contractions stopped completely. Rrrgh! Around 5:30 we had Caleb's two brothers, their families and my mom over for pizza and my contractions started up again, however this time they were starting to really hurt, but still were not consistent. I didn't have any dinner as I was really not hungry and I didn't want to throw up if I was in labor. I didn't want to go to the hospital just to be turned away!

At 8pm I thought I'd better just go in because of the pain but by the time we cleaned up the house, loaded up our kids and took them to my parent's house for the night, it ended up being about 9:30pm by the time we got to Mountain View Hospital. Finally my contractions were 2-5 min. apart!!!

The first time they checked me at 10 pm they determined I was at a 5--Hallelujah! At 10:30 I got an epidural (thank goodness for pain relief!) and then at 11:30 Dr. Leavitt (my Dr. was out of town) came in and checked me and I was at a 7--yeah! He also broke my water. One hour later, at 12:30am he came back and I was at a 10, fully effaced with the baby dropped and ready to push! He was so nice and let Caleb gown up and deliver her. I pushed for about 15 min. total and Capri was born at 12:51 am on Sat. I didn't tear at all--not even one stitch, yippee!! I dilated SO much faster this time around ( I never threw up!) and all in all, the whole experience was so much better than my last two (and Crew's was pretty good)! I guess "third time's the charm", right?

Capri is super cute with lots of dark hair and dark, dark eyes. We are in love with her. Everything couldn't have gone better. Since it was the middle of the night we didn't call anyone to tell them our good news until this morning. My dad is at girls' camp and of course Caleb's parents are on their mission, so my mom was the lone grandparent on the scene. (Thanks for taking them overnight, Mom!) Caysja and Crew are fascinated with Capri. Crew kept poking her nose and eyes and saying, "nose" "eye". Caysja couldn't wait to hold her. She's prayed for her to "come out" every night for months now.

I can smile now that I had an epidural!

All ready to deliver

first family photo

straight from heaven

daddy's little girl

she's a great little nurser!

first bath--which she loved

snug as a bug in a rug

my cute kiddos--i can't believe I now have THREE!!

Kiki, all ready to give Capri her present and to open hers in exchange

my mom holding Capri for the first time

The very proud BIG SISTER

Big sis/big bro