Our recent addition!

Our little girl, Kiera Ranea Large, finally made it into this world on April 16th, 2008 at 12:20am.

It has been a long and interesting process. After trying to have her come into this world naturally we ended up having to induce her on Monday morning at 7:30am. We started out slow and went through the entire day with contractions but unfortunately, Kiera was not handling the pitocin well so, we got a little break Monday night. We started up again Tuesday morning increasing the pitocin dose every 1/2 hour. The contractions started coming every 2 minutes and they were what the doctors called "transition" strength contractions, which are supposedly the hardest they are going to get. Mom is still not on any drugs at this time so it's rough going.

At 5:00pm, the doctor comes in to check and says we are still at 5 cm! What! thats it?! There is no way we can do another 9 hours of HARD contractions that come every two minutes. After discussing it a bit, we decided to go with the epidural since we were both starting to become very stressed and Mom-to-be was starting to go into shock.Once the epidural was in, we started going again with the medicine to see if we could get past 5 cm. Finally, at 11:00 pm with still no progress and after a couple of scares, we decided to have a C-section.

To make a long story short (too late), we are home, happy, and healthy! Here are some pictures for your enjoyment.