Wednesday morning before I left for work Tanya was having consistent contractions about 8-10 minutes apart. These continued throughout the day. She called me about 3:00 and they were then coming at about 5-7 minutes and they were starting to get uncomfortable. By the time I got home at 4:45 to pick her up for a Midwife appointment we already had scheduled, she was contracting every 3-5 minutes and pretty uncomfortable. At the appointment she was three centimeters dilated. They told us to go home and have dinner and come back if things intensified. I made her dinner and put her in the tub at home and by 9:00 the contractions were 2 minutes apart and about 1.5 minutes long; she was in a lot of pain. We got her to the Midwife clinic by 10:00 pm and she was 6-7 cm dilated. We got her into the hot tub at the clinic at about 10:45 and she had the baby at 12:21. We came home at 3:00 am--Tanya climbed the double flight of stairs to get into our apartment on her own (she's amazing!).
Sterling weighed in at 8 lbs even and was 21 inches long. He let out a good little cry almost as soon as his head broke the surface of the tub. Everyone's doing great--a little sleep deprived, but doing really well! ; ) I know that I'm biased, but I think he's the first really cute baby I've ever seen! ; ) ...fyi, I've honestly never thought that babies are very cute, guess I've been converted. : )
