It’s Birthday Today!

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Margaret Rae Davis
Born October 7th, 2009
2:51 AM
7 lbs. 8 oz.
19″ long
13 5/8″ head circumference

Here is where we were when Mom and my wonderful midwives Kelly and Kelli arrived:

Contractions – ow!

Kelly and Kelli with their bags of goodies:

More contractions… more ouch! We went from contractions every 8 minutes for about an hour to contractions every 1-2 minutes for the rest of the labor.

I really liked the pool – my muscles were so tired from being on my hands and knees during contractions. The contractions took a short break (maybe 4 minutes?) which I was sooooooooo thankful for and then they were super intense again.

A very happy moment!!!!! I didn’t pick her up immediately as she came out so that we could get the cord from around her neck… but the cord was fairly short so she did a somersault under the water before we figured it out! No worries – she was under warm water and didn’t try breathing until I had her out for several seconds.

Meeting our precious second daughter:

No emergencies here. Melissa walked in immediately after she was born… only about one minute too late to see her birth:

A tired and happy Papa:

The adoring crowd:

Father of my children, my greatest support, my dear love:

Maggie cried very little and had very low muscle tone. We were worried about her struggling to breathe since she didn’t cry/cough much to get the mucus out of her lungs (she has been underwater for 9 months!). She had good color though so after an initial checkup, I nursed her for awhile and although she was still breathing wetly and not crying, she was moving around much more and nice and pink as you see here:

Moving her arms and being so sweet:

Anna slept through everything! I am so thankful for that. Since I felt like I was basically in transition for more than half the (very short) labor, I wouldn’t have been able to respond to her at all. Here she is coming to see that “Maggie came out!”

I’m not looking too cute, but Anna is. Brian and I had rested for an hour and a half at this point. Maggie was born at 2:51am and the midwives left about 5:30am… and this was about 7am.:

Mommy plus one:

Mommy plus two:

All four of us. And yes, Razzie is totally exhausted – she stayed up with us all night anxioiusly:

First visitor! Poppy came over on his way to work to meet his newest granddaughter:

And he didn’t forget about his first granddaughter, much to her joy:

Anna held Maggie for the first time and watched Mr. Rogers together:

My beautiful girls: