The Baby is Here!

I predicted it would happen.  The baby came early!  3 weeks and 1 day early to be exact!

We just wanted to make it to full term, which is technically 37 weeks, but she came 1 day before.  It's ok though, she made it and she is thriving so far!  She was born 5lbs and 15oz.  Tiny little thing she is, but oh so cute!  She is 19.25in long, so she is average height.  She has normal sized pinkies and she likes to curl her toes to grab things - like a true monkey  :)

So how did this all happen?  I won't go into the gory details.  My water broke around 2:45am on March 16.    We took our time at home, since I was not having any contractions yet, and Jeff had not packed his bags yet.  So I took a shower and Jeff got his bags ready.  We were admitted to the hospital around 4am.  Approximately 10 hours later at 2:23pm, I gave birth to our baby girl!  Oh she is so adorable.  When she was born, she had really pink lips.  It looked like she was wearing lip gloss!  She doesn't really have any Asian features yet, but I guess it's going to take a while to see who she looks more like.  The nurses say she has my lips, but I think she looks a lot like Jeff when she is sleeping.  She sort of has the Cambodian nose, but I think that will change.  She has a full head of hair, we think it's going to be wavy like Jeff's.  Oh, and it's light brown!  So pretty :)

It was an exhausting day for both of us.  I was not able to eat anything all day and I was so starving!  But the baby comes first, of course.  She's been a champ at everything so far.  We are so proud of her :)

Oh yes, and we have finally decided on a name for the baby after much debate.  Her official name is Alana Kaliyani DelChiaro.