Welcome Emily Kathryn Barrow

Where do I even begin. This week has been such a whirlwind but in the best way ever. I know everyone wants to see pictures, but I at least want to tell the story first. On January 5th (Monday) I was officially 38 weeks. I began to get concerned in the afternoon because I had not felt EmK move -- or couldn't remember feeling her move. So Jordan and I headed to Brookwood to have a stress test. Everything looked great and other than a few contractions showing up we were good to go home. Jordan cooked a nice dinner and we settled in to a night of tv. Around 9:00 I started having contractions and started timing them. In the meantime, I made sure to wash my hair just in case what I was feeling was true labor -- I've had this obsession about having clean hair when I go to the hospital. I called the doctor around 10:45pm when the contractions were coming and was told that I needed to wait until they were 5 minutes apart for at least an hour -- that seemed like forever to me. However, we continued to wait until around 12:30am when they were officially 5 minutes apart for an hour and were told to head to the hospital.

Once we got to the hospital the contractions were steady, about 4 minutes apart. We settled into our room and saw the doctor at around 7:45am. It was a LONG night!!! I wasn't prepared for how bad the contractions were going to be. I guess nobody can really prepare you for that, but still. At 8:00am I got an epidural (AMAZING) and the rest was a piece of cake. At 11:45am I was told we would start pushing and by 11:54am our sweet girl was here!!!

It is absolutely amazing and indescribable the LOVE I feel for this precious little girl after only 4 days. Jordan and I just stare at her. We feel so blessed and honored that God would bring us each other and allow us to be parents.

I'm sure I could go on and on, but I'll get to the best part....THE PICTURES:)

Emily Kathryn Barrow - 7 pounds 5 ounces - 20 inches in length