Kaufman Family

After about 18 hours of labor, Lindsay started pushing.  After the 4 hour pushing marathon, mother and baby are doing wonderfully.  We are still seeing which name she looks like, so for now it is Baby Kaufman.
Mom is feeding baby, then she is going to get cleaned up and then will need some well deserved rest.

We are getting ready to push!!!!   Hopefully all done soon!

The baby is dropping, but not quite in position.  She is facing sideways, so that is slowing everything down.

It looks like we are almost there!!!   I will post pictures asap (I think there is “babymail” too, but Lindsay set all that up and I don’t know much about it).

Everyone loves pictures:

Well, we still aren’t to “pushing” yet; however, Lindsay is almost ready, the baby is almost in position, and her cervix is almost complete.

So, all in all, we are ALMOST there.  Hopefully we will meet our baby g irl soon.  I will avoid any wild guessing as to time.

We are letting the contractions do the work.  Since Lindsay is comfortable with the epidural, the contractions will get the baby in a better position and reduce the amount of pushing necessary.

Baby and mommy are doing great (on heart rate monitor).   We are getting a bit impatient to meet the baby, but all is going well.

With the epidural in, Lindsay is able to get some sleep while her body does some work for her.  She will need some energy after being up for over 30 hours and in labor for 15.

Looks like things are going well, and hopefully we will be able to a new member of our family in a couple of hours or less.

I am going to take a nap, or order lunch … not sure yet.

This is even BEFORE the epidural.

Lindsay is resting a bit so she can build up enough energy to push.