Natural Childbirth = CHECK

So he is here! Yes, a BOY, born on Dec. 26th. We are so excited / shocked. Marty and myself had totally banked on it being a girl for some reason and we even had it narrowed down to 2 good girl names. We really didn't have many boy names running around in our head...so we took a little extra time to determine his.

Meet Charles Henry Wright...Charlie weighed in at 8 lbs. 11 oz.! Our biggest baby yet.Doing a natural birth was the most excruciating thing I've have EVER experienced and I don't know if I'll do it again...well that's what I thought immediately following his delivery. But now that it's been a couple of days and I see the way I feel and have healed and look back to how neat the whole experience was....I may just do it that way again for our next child. The contractions weren't the hard part really. I was a 9 when I arrived at the hospital. The 'burning ring of fire' really hit when I was pushing him out. That is when I screamed and cried out and felt an anxiety attack coming on. But I got thru it - I only had to push thru 3 contractions- which at the time seemed like eternity. It was so special when he came out though. My mom, Marty and I were all emotionally drained/involved and it was really awesome to get him here after all that hard work.