Gwen Meredith

Gwen has arrived!!

Our little one has finally arrived. She was born Feb. 28 at 12:27 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and was 20 1/2 inches long. But lets start from the beginning (Not the beginning when she was made, but the beginning of labor). First of all, I want to say that Heather was the best pregnant lady ever! She had a really good pregnancy and worked until the day she delivered. She never complained, except occasionally that her belly was too big. I really do have the best wife ever!

On to the labor and delivery... Thursday night, Heather noticed that some liquid had come out, and she wasn't sure what it was. She went to bed and woke up to more liquid in the morning. She acted like it was nothing and was about to get ready for work. It took a lot of convincing to make her realize that her water might be leaking or have ruptured. We went to the hospital around noon, and the nurse confirmed that her water had ruptured. We were admitted and they put Heather on pitocin to speed things up. At around 1 pm she was dilated 4 cm and by 9 pm she made it to 10 cm. Heather pushed for about 2 hours and the baby was face-up instead of face-down, which made things harder for Heath. We feared a C-sections, but Heath kept pushing and got the baby out. Heath did a great job, and in fact, about 10 minutes after she was born, I asked her if she would do it again. The doctors said, "Whoa, way too early to ask that!" and Heath said she would do it again. My wife is such a trooper!


We want to give special thanks for all the family that came to help out. We appreciate it MUCHO and couldnt have done it without y'all. Thanks to all the friends that have visited us since Gwen's arrival, too.

Here are some pics of the process. Hope you all enjoy. Gwen is a great baby. We got home from the hospital Sunday afternoon and have managed to keep Gwen alive, even though we have let a few plants die in our day.

Jay, scared out of his mind and Heath nice and relaxed

Les and Shew-nah killing time and Jay with his crisp bean burrito!

Our first picture of Gwen... and her poor little bruised head from being "face up"

Heath's first time holding her
(It took almost an hour to close things up)

Grandma holding Gwen

Gwen showing off her muscles

Right after her first bath... she hated it!

Gwen in her cute little hat from her A. Jacki, U. Toddy and cousin Quinn

Jenn and Amelia Radford

The Payne's came for a visit

Gwen with Grandparents and Shauna

Gwen's new little friends... Adalyn and Tatiana

Jay with Gwen about to leave the hospital

Leaving the hospital

Leslie with Gwen, Juliann and little Mae (another new little friend for Gwen)

Mamma with Gwen... holding her little head up already :)

Some people have been asking where we got her names from; we got the name Gwen from our ward bulletin board...one day back in September we were at church looking at random names and came across the name Gwen. Neither of us personally know anyone named Gwen and thought it just sounded perfect. And her middle name Meredith is after my grandma. So there you have our little Gwen Meredith.

We're having a great time with our little girly and have loved having family in town and looking forward to other siblings, nephews and friends arriving in the next couple of weeks :) It's been fun to share this with so many people we love!

More pictures to come... I'm sure :)