Lucy's Birth Story
I am happy to announce that our baby girl is here! Lucy Esther Meiners arrived on Friday at 5:58 PM. She weighed 8 lbs. and 4.6 ozs. She is 20.25 inches long. We are truly overwhelmed with love for her. Having a newborn is a tiring whirlwind, but it is so wonderful to have her here. Here is the story of how everything happened: On Thursday night we had gone out to Chinese dinner as a family and had come home and gone to bed. Around midnight I woke up to go to the bathroom. I realized that I was experiencing painful menstrual-like cramps. I realized what was happening, that I was probably in labor, and tried to relax. I tried to sleep to get as much rest as possible, but every 10 minutes or so the cramps would come and it was too distracting to sleep. Around 3 AM I got up to go to the bathroom again. This time, I realized that I had leaked a lot of clear fluid. My waters had broken! The only thing that was slightly disconcerting was that the fluid had some of a brownish-green...