... and Heavenly Rest.

We are all finally back home together. Julie is laying in bed with Baby Beck working on breastfeeding. It is a whole new world figuring how to feed her when she is outside of her body and has been a little tricky, but for now, she is so sleepy and perfect that we're not going to worry about it.

We still don't have a name, we need some quiet time to see what she wants to be named. Things have been too crazy up until this point. I keep looking at her and thinking how beautiful she is and how much I love her and her mom.... so the name Julie keeps coming to mind... probably not a great idea.. probably has something to do with the 15 minutes of sleep that I've had since 3:00am Thursday morning when Julie's water broke and things started happening.

Quick update, no real need to go into details. Julie and I felt like she was making great progress towards being in active labor building up to what we thought was the 4-1-1 phase of things at around 1:00pm which was when our midwives showed up and let us know that we still had a long way to go. We we're pretty cocky and thought that we'd be done w/ baby in hand and a cleaned up house by around 6:00pm that evening. Nancy helped to manage our expectations and let us know to plan for a late night.

As soon as she and Michelle left at 2:00 and we took our walk, things started really happening and we started to go into active labor. They knew that if Julie was still chipper and able to joke between contractions, she wasn't actually in active labor. They told us to call when Julie quit laughing.

Shortly after they left, Julie quit laughing and started to have serious/strong contractions. Being in the birthing tub helped a lot, and having me press on her lower back helped her ride through the contractions. At 6:30 or so Julie wanted to try a different environment so she got out of the tub and finally worked back toward the bed in our bedroom. After just about an hour and a half a very loud very beautiful baby girl popped out to meet the world. I'm still in shock about how beautiful she is and how amazed I am when I look down into her little chubby face.

After that things got too interesting. But that is a story for another time.

Now we rest.

D&J&?