Finley Elizabeth!

Welcome to our blog about our new daughter, born 3/30/08. She was 6 1/2 weeks early. Most of you may know the details already but I will give you a quick rundown about what happened. I had been on bedrest for the last week because I was dilated to 3 cm's and having alot of contractions.I went in for my 33 week appointment and things were stable since I was on bedrest. Saturday morning 3/29/08 at 11:30 am my water broke and I was taken via ambulance to Providence Medical center. I wasn't having any contractions so they prepared me for a couple of weeks of hospital monitored bed rest. Joel ended up going home that night around 8:30 and 5 hours later I started having SERIOUS contractions. I called Joel at 2:15 and told him to get down here as I was in active labor. I gave birth at 4:36 am and Joel made it with about 45 minutes to spare. She came into the world at a whopping 4lbs 8oz's. She was 17 inches long. We were able to hold her for a while but then they took her to the Neonatal Intensive Care unit ( NICU) and as of today, she is still there!

Here are some pictures from day one and I will do another post about an update.