Jordan Elizabeth Snipes

 Jordan Elizabeth Snipes arrived on Wednesday, October 17th at 12:40am with another easy labor.  We had our weekly playdate on Tuesday with my friend Carling, and her daughter Ciahna who is Miles' age. We had worked on the kids Halloween costumes and I had completed Miles'. I told Carling about 2 pm that day that I was ready for Jordan to get here and wanted her to be a part of the halloween costume!  Little did I know that just a few hours later my wish would come true!

We took a trip into Anderson with the kids to get Miles his first pet, a Betta Fish. (Side note: Pet stores are like free, mini zoos for young children! The kids had a great time.)  As we were leaving Anderson, I had a contraction.  I thought nothing of it since I had been having contractions for the past 4-5 weeks, but I started my timer anyways to see if another one came.  12 minutes later, another one came.  Then 7 minutes later, the next one arrived.  By the time we arrived home, I had timed 5 contractions, all less than 15 minutes apart.  Carson had just arrived home and was getting ready to start a project outside, but decided to stay inside and see how things played out. I proceeded to get dinner ready and told Carson that if I had one more contraction under 15 minutes, we would go to the hospital.  I continued on with dinner and Carson began to get a little nervous.  With Miles, I didn't meet up with Carson until I got to the hospital so it was fun and humorous to me to watch him freak out this time.  Miles and I had dinner (if I was in labor I didn't want to be hungry!) but Carson was too excited/anxious to eat and finished packing the hospital bags. . .

Along came another contraction. . .

We loaded up the car and dropped Miles off at a friends house nearby.  I was taking my time explaining his schedule and Carson was trying to push me out the door.  I didn't believe I was in labor yet, and wouldn't believe it until a doctor told me I was!  At this point I was still just feeling a tightening sensation with the contractions and no pain.

We arrived at the hospital and found out that I was 7cm dilated and in active labor.  They got me admitted and all hooked up and then it was just time to wait for Jordan to make her appearance.   We had a fabulous delivery nurse named Molly, which made it very confusing when people would talk to one of us, but she was great! A few hours and  2 1/2 pushes later, Jordan Elizabeth made her way into the world!  

Meeting my baby girl

She came out ready to eat. All she would do was stick her tongue out at me

Dr. French

Our delivery nurse, Molly. 

Gigi jumped on a plane as soon as she could and arrived the next afternoon.

Our first attempt at a family picture.  Carling and her family had picked Miles up on Wednesday and brought him to the hospital to meet his little sister! It was so wonderful having so many great friends to help us during this time.

We went home less than 48 hours after arriving at the hospital and it was so great to have our new, expanded family together!