Reagan Maeva Murphy

Finally, I know, I should have posted this weeks ago, but I've been busy. Well, she's here!!! Our little princess, Reagan! She came a day early on June 8th at 11:53am. After about 20 hours of labor and no epidural, we welcomed her into this crazy world. 7 lbs 9 ozs, 21 1/2" long, 10 fingers and 10 curly Chrissy toes, she's beautiful. We checked into the hospital at 5pm on Sunday June 7th after over an hour of contractions 5 minutes apart. I was 75% effaced and dilated 5 centimeters. They said, "you're staying", and we were thrilled that the time had finally come! I progressed very slowly over the next several hours and my Dr. visited me Monday morning and broke my water at about 8am. Things really started to move then. I think I pushed for about an hour, it felt like 10 minutes. The feeling I had when she came out, was so worth all the pain. They placed her on my chest, skin to skin, as soon as she was delivered and she was so wide-eyed checking me out. Nothing could have prepared me for this experience.

We had many visitors in the hospital and left on Wednesday June 10th. It was great to get home and start the family adventure of the three of us.
Three weeks old and we're pretty much in the swing of things around the Murphy house. Ryan and I have ventured out twice without her, only for a couple hours at a time. This weekend we'll have our first night apart as she spends the evening with my parents on the fourth. Mommy and daddy are going to do a little drinking!! Not too much though, cause we have to be able to care for her the next day. Anyways, there's a lot more I could go on about, but don't have time. The little one is waking up and it's time to feed. Hope you all enjoy the pics.