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Isabella Leigh is here!

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From:	Liz Barr ... Add to Contacts

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Isabella Leigh was born 10-8-10 at 3:21 AM weighing 8.5 pounds and measuring
20.5". She's beautiful and doing well. She has black curly hair - a full
head. Must be the Italian pasta! Labor was relatively quick. Contractions
started Wed night, but didn't get too intense until Thurs evening. 9 PM we
called Morgan's babysitter, Rose, and by 10 PM we were at the hospital. I got
the epidural at 11 PM, and we 'slept' from 12-3 AM and it was a quick push out
(another 20 min superstar effort [my coach's words!]). Jeff really helped me
through it with the counting and seemed to remember everything. He also got to
cut the cord.


At 6 AM when things had settled down, he went back to our home to check on
Morgan and they were all still sleeping! He was jealous! Morgan slept the
entire night for Rose. Then they both came over to the hospital to meet Bella.
Morgan was really excited and got to hold her - though was a little too curious
about the umbilical cord clamp! Morgan was very gentle and gave her a kiss
before Rose drove her into 'school'. Rose will bring her home when her work day
is done around 4 PM.


I'll probably stay at the hospital tonight as well. Typically they want mom's
and babies to stay 48 hours after delivery, but I think given that everything
went so well and that we live on base we can check out Sat afternoon.


We took some photos and will update our blog when we can. Love to you all,
Jeff, Liz, Morgan and Bella