Hello everyone! We're HOME with baby Claire and life is good! Here are some pictures of our sweet homecoming with Cici, Aunt Jenny, Emily and Ellie in our front yard! Miss Claire is adjusting to the chaos very well- and Mommy is getting lots of R&R with everyone here to help.
I know some of you want to know all about the "birth!" Ahhhh, where to begin? This experience was so entirely different from Taylor's birth! (and Emily's as well!) Where Taylor's dragged on just like Emily's, Claire came fast and furious! I totally did not plan on having a natural childbirth--- I am ALL about the epidural--- but the good Lord thought I should skip the epi altogether! AGH! It was hell, I will not lie. I was in a state of delirium when I realized I would not be getting the drugs to help with the pain and instead I had to push! But it only lasted two pushes- two very painful pushes- and Claire was in our arms! The whole experience was surreal because it was so fast. Here we thought we'd be in the room all night, I'd get the drugs, labor would slow down, I'd make a few phone calls to tell people I was in labor, and Claire would join us as peacefully and painlessly as Taylor did--- but I was wrong! I literally had no time for any of that! We were all in a state of shock when it was all said and done! The good news about skipping the epi is that I felt really good pretty soon after- no lingering side effects. We went to the hospital at 5:00pm and I delivered Claire at 7:15pm! That was fast!!!!
About the name- I know everyone is confused because we had originally picked Isabella as her first name. We were struggling to come up with a middle name that fit, and then the night I started laboring I couldn't get the name Claire out of my head! When my mom and sister showed up the next day they said they were thinking of middle names and Claire was one of them! It wasn't until we were at the hospital just a few hours before she was born that Chris and I agreed that Claire would be her first name and Isabella would be the middle name. The next day I changed it again so that the middle name was shortened to Isabel. (Sounds better with Abraham). Anyway, her official name is Claire Isabel Abraham. And that's the story behind it all!
Okay, time for mom to eat something!
Love you all-
Carrie