Lilah is here!

Lilah Josephine Bohm is finally here. She arrived December 7
at 11:29 am. She was 7 lb 2 oz and 20 1/2 inches long.

Labor began on December 6 when Briony's water broke while
shopping with her mom in the morning. She immediately started having
contractions so Bill came home from work and they finished
packing their bags for the hospital. Amy, Briony and Bill's friend
and doula, arrived around noon. The contractions
began to get closer together and longer so they decided to
head to the hospital around 2:00 pm and arrived there around
2:30 pm. Contractions slowly began to increase and around
7:00 pm that evening things were starting to rock and roll.
It looked like the labor would be progressing quickly, little did they
know that that was not God's plan.

After a couple of hours of contractions Briony had only dilated to 1 cm,
which was a bit disheartening. Contractions continued but
progress was very slow. By 2:00 am in the morning dilation was only
to 3 cm, and at this time contractions were getting very intense.
They had to make some decisions since the water
had broken so early the previous morning. A decision was made
some time later to start pitocin which helped to jump start the labor
and move things along. By this time everyone was exhausted
and contractions had been consistant and intense for over eight hours.

At 6:00 am Briony finally got an epidural to help through the end of
labor. By 8:00 am she was 5 cm dilated and by 10:00 she had gone
to 10 cm and Lilah was at +2 station. The nurse was very
surprised and pushing started almost immediately. After 40
minutes of pushing Lilah was born and everyone was relieved that
the 25 1/2 hour labor was finally over.

We are overjoyed to have their baby girl here
and hope that you enjoy the pictures as much as we do.

Getting all checked out

Cage fighter

Already in love

She likes to stare at her daddy

All tuckered out

Two Nanas

proud Papa

four generations

Grandma

Checking out all her parts

Proud Grandpa

First car ride home. She did not like her car seat
and cried herself silly, then promptly fell asleep.

First visitors