Thursday, July 29, 2010, 9 lbs 2 oz, 22 in. long, 11:53am

Baby Elliott made his grand debut.  After my water breaking Wednesday around 4:30, he finally arrived Thursday a little before noon.  We arrived at the hospital around 5:30 Wednesday evening and were admitted.  Contractions were not starting on their own, so at midnight I was started on a pit drip.  Everything went smoothly.  In fact I made the comment that I was a little bored and was very glad I had packed the computer, ipod, and my cell phone charger.  Craig set the laptop up on the bedside tray and was making sure my cell phone battery didn't die.  I think he charged it like 2 or 3 times within the night.  I was a texting fool!  Not so much as talking but texting like crazy.  Contractions were intense but not unbearable.  Around 6 am, I finally decided that I needed to sleep and had an epidural.  My contractions were lasting a minute and half long and occuring every 2 minutes, so what that means is, 20 seconds to be able to breathe.  Not much at all.  After epidural was placed I rolled over and slept for 3 hours, woke up and not long after I was ready to push.  My right side was not numb so I could feel exactly when it was time to push, and so we did.  3 times and out popped baby Elliott!  Easy as pie, I would have another one tomorrow.  I am so thankful for the easy labor and delivery, but not at all surprised by it.  This is something that Craig and I had started to pray about even before we discovered that baby Elliott would be joining us.  The Lord answered and gave us the desires of our hearts.  Here are a couple of pictures from the past few weeks.  Enjoy!

Elliott Thomas Rush
3 weeks old