Christmas 2008

Welcome Alia!!!

going home

with daddy in my cute little outfit

" border=0>

concentrating on something

Daddy is great at bouncing Alia to sleep

pretty eyes

our BIG girl!

There was a LOT of waiting!!

Welcome Alia!

After exactly 41 weeks of pregnancy and 45 hours in the hospital, Alia Catherine Douglas was born on Sunday, December 21st at 3:10am. She weighed a whopping 8 pounds and 15 ounces and was 21.5 inches long.

Mommy and Daddy had a long wait for Alia!!! We went into the hospital at 6:00am on Friday and after hours on Pitocin, labor was NOT kicking in at all. So, the doctor's decided to take me off of it and give my body a break for a while. Later that night they tried a different medication. Jason and I killed time by watching movies, tv and playing Trivial Pursuit (he won). By 4:00am on Saturday I was finally in labor. To make a long story short .... after a bunch of pain, an epidural and a whole lot of waiting it became apparent that Alia was going to have to be born by c-section. I was pretty upset at first but so excited that after all of that waiting we were finally going to meet our little baby girl.

Jason was able to stay right with Alia from the second she was born, and was there when they weighed her and gave her her first bath. I was in recovery and with them about 30-40 minutes later. We were in the hospital for 3 more days and were finally able to come home together as a family of 3 on Christmas Eve. Alia is absolutely amazing and the best Christmas present that anyone could ever ask for!!!!