SHE'S HERE!!!

Brystal Lynn Bennett has finally arrived! She was born on Saturday October 27th at 2:12. She weighed a little tiny 6 pounds even, and 20 and a half inches long with loads of long brown hair. I was so excited to hear that she had hair.

I woke Friday morning around 6:30 with some strange feelings. I didn't know what to think about them until they kept coming every 5 to 10 minutes. I called Nate to come home from work and we spent the whole day watching movies and going for walks. The contractions were getting worse, but they weren't getting regular, so I didn't dare to try and go to the hospital and get sent home. I spent the rest of the day and the rest of the night in agony with contractions every 5-7. I was up all night sleeping for about 4 minutes, and then waking up with a contraction. Finally at 6 the NEXT morning, I told Nate to get up because I couldn't take it anymore, and I felt like 24 hours of contractions 7 minutes apart was something to not be taken lightly. So we went in, I was already dilated to a 4 and quailified for the epidural!! Yeah!! So I got the epidural, and coasted along and dilated to a 10 within 6 hours, pain free. Then, suddenly the eipdural decided to stop working on my left side and back. I was dying, luckily it was time to push. 20 minutes later, we had a little baby in our arms. She is just perfect, and healthy with no problems. We are so happy and blessed that everything went so perfect! I loved the experience (ok, so spending a whole 24 hours at home in pain wasn't so fun) the whole experience was better than I ever imagined. And now we are home, and trying to figure everything out. I'm feeling pretty good, just a little soar, but it is all worth it. Brystal is very good baby so far. We will keep you all posted. I'm sorry this has taken me so long to get up.