She's Here!

Gaby woke me up at 4:45 this morning and said "Your baby is going to be born today."  She had been having contractions since 3:30am and thought it was time to go to the hospital.  So we got everything together and headed off, and got checked in at the triage at 5:30.  She was having bad contractions every 4-5 minutes for awhile, then during one of them she yelled "I'm going to die!!" so we knew she was in pain.  The nurses measured and she was 6 cm dilated so they thought it was time to go to the delivery room.  They got her there, and then a contraction hit and she said "The baby's coming!"  Then the placenta started coming out, so they got the on call doctor in there and I held one of her legs up, she pushed twice and the baby literally popped out just that fast.  I cut the cord, and the rest is history.  The cord was wrapped around her neck, but I think she got out of there so fast that she was "shocked" and did not even cry.  She has now eaten and mother and daughter are doing well.  Her name is Alexandra Maria Moss, 7 lbs 12 oz, and 19.75 inches long.  She is cute as can be and has already had her first dirty diaper.  Welcome to the world Alexandra!