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Team Green turned...
PINK! Clara Hope was born on August 14th at 3:09 p.m. weighing in at 8lb 8oz (same as what I weighed when I was born) and 20 inches long after 35 looooong hours of labor. She was 100% worth it.
Short birth story - started having contractions at 4am on Suatday 8/13. Was timing them by 7ish. Was having to breath through them by the afternoon. By 6pm called my doctor and she said to labor at home a bit more. My mom was nervous b/c her doctor told her that w/ two of her kids and she didn't get to the hospital in time for the epi but I was confident I wasn't that far along. By 8pm I called to say I was 5 minutes apart and they were painful enough that I was breathing through all of them and not talking. I was admitted to the hospital around 8:30 and was between 4 and 5 centimenters. Got epidural between 5-6cm around 1030pm. I don't know if that's what slowed things down (the epi) but I was only 8cm by 6am and of course I couldn't sleep during that time. Then by 9am I still had a "lip of cervix" left...which stayed and stayed and stayed. They finally gave me pitocin around 11 and I was dilated enough to start pushing around 1:30.
1.5 hours of pushing later and beautiful Clara entered our world. I have never been so emotional in my life! Thanks for all the good thoughts...she was 6 days late but I'm glad she came w/o me having to go in for a full induction.
I'm trying to add pics but this is my brother's laptop and it's being difficult...I'll continue to try!
Thanks cshissell for updating the board! 
Re: Team Green turned...
Get the heck out! I was totally thinking blue!
More importantly... congrats, congrats, congrats! Glad things are going well and look forward to hearing more soon! Love to all including little Miss Clara (beautiful name).
Welcome to the world, Clara!
(love love LOVE that name btw!)