One month old!

So Anna is now one month old, so I should catch the blog up from Thanksgiving. I was on bed rest and I started having appointments twice a week with fetal monitoring and ultrasounds.
On December 14 I went into my regular Monday appointment and John came along to check out the maternity ward (we were still deciding between two hospitals at this point). Well our midwife came in and said, "So,we will induce you tonight..." We were shocked. Apparently my blood pressure was higher than they liked. If they did not induce they had concerns about damage to my organs. We were 37 weeks along and she was showing to be good sized. John and I split up after the appointment, him to work and me home. I called my mom, who was flying out on Sunday. She immediately called the airline to book a flight out that day. That would work out great for us, mom here and she would be able to stay the night with the dogs. John's parents were planning on being in Indiana at the end of the week, so they got things together to head out from Texas. They were planning to come to stay with the dogs, but were able to hold off with my mom's flight. Well, we started on Monday, but Anna was not born until Thursday morning. She was born 8:21 am by c-section. I had gotten to 10 cm dilated and she was in a +2 position face up but could go no further.
Well, 12/17/09 gave us our lovely baby girl at 8 pounds 10 ounces 2 weeks early. An early Christmas present. There has been lots of enjoying her since with her cute smiles and snuggling. Nothing beats a contented smile after eating.