WE'RE HOME!!!!

Hello, Hello, Hello!!!!! We are home! We got out of the hospital 1 and 1/2 days early by special request so I could take care of all my babies. It is Sunday night, they wanted me there 'til Tuesday morning. They said baby and I are healthy, so no problem going home, I just had to sign a paper that I would take baby to the doctor before 10 days were up. So.....

As you probably know already her name is Avery Jean Pilch (Hebrew name Ariel), she was born at 805pm on Jan 20th, 2006. Though her estimated weight was 7.5 lbs on Jan 4th, she arrived weighing only 3180 grams, or 7.01 lbs and measuring 20 1/2 inches. All my babies were the same length, but clearly this Lil' Squirt (as I have been calling her) is MUCH thinner than the others (they were ranging in weight from 9 lbs 2 oz to 10 lbs 10 ozs). She has some serious orange hair, I wonder if it will stay that way (both Tristan and Sam's hair was much redder than it is now when they were born). She is very much a Pilch baby. So, baby story...

At about 0900 on the 20th I was given gel-I was STILL at 2cm. blah blah blah... at about 2pm I was checked and still at 2cm and we (yes WE, Brian was able to come home AGAIN-what an awesome surprise) discussed/convinced the doc to give me pitocin. The stipulation was, I could be on it for only a few hours and then it was to be "removed." If I did not progress on my own, that would be it for that day, we could try induction another day. So... at about 415pm I was given the pitocin. Contractions came and while they were difficult, I did not feel they were strong enough, so believe it or not, we (which now we=myself, Brian and Tina because she came home early from work to join in on the fun) kept asking for more dosage, which they did slowly increase. Anyhow at 610 pm I was checked again and I was STILL 2cm. Right when the doctor made this pronouncement, as I was about to beg to be allowed to continue with the pitocin, YIPPIE my water broke. Immediately I was in tears because all day I had held back on the excitement, fearful this induction would fail AGAIN, when my water broke, I knew she was on her way!!! Immediately this excitement grew into fear as I knew the pain that lay ahead...lol. So, pretty quickly the contractions jumped into full speed ahead, at 730 pm I was checked and at 4cm, then one to two pushes and a whole lotta' screaming later at 805pm out she came. It was so quick (not painless)! I went from 2cm at 610pm to baby out at 805pm!

I would like to thank my husband because he really helped me. He gets better and better at knowing what to say, what not to say, when to shut up and what to do to make it all better for me each time. I would also like to thank Tina who helped a lot too and was not grossed out or appalled by any of my "displays." I also want to thank everyone who watched my kids while I was away: Tina, Eric, Tracey E. and Sarah.

The kids are so in love with their baby sister. Tristan is already very protective, Sammi wants to show her the world and Keagan can't keep his hands off her.

I am TRYING to load pictures to our web page
http://www.msnusers.com/PilchFamilyPhotos

I seem to be running into some trouble. I will try one more time, then I am off to bed as all of my beautiful babies are sleeping, which means I should be too!

If they aren't there now, check back in from time to time and hopefully I will get them up.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope your day is as bright as mine!