My beautiful family of four!

It's been a few months since I have posted. Life has been busy but great! You probably all know our newest addition arrived September 15, 2011. Here's how it happened: On the 14th I was having tons of contractions but nothing major at all. I was timing them and they were getting pretty close so I called Will at work and told him I wanted to go in and be checked. He got home around noon, when we got there they checked me and I was dilated to 4cm. We stay for about an hour or two and decided to go home since there was no progress. That night I felt like just sitting around and doing nothing. So I went to bed around 10pm and woke up multiple times in the night from the contractions. 4:30am I woke Will up and told him they were 2 min apart and we needed to go. They were not very painful just more uncomfortable than anything. Of course on our way to the hospital they slowed down and were about 5-10min apart. I was checked at 5am and was dilated to 6cm. I was pretty sure I wanted an epidural but I did not need it at that point. I got put into a room right away and we sat there until 8am when the doctor came in to check me again. She said I was almost 8cm and asked if I wanted an epidural. I said yes because I was scared the pushing would be too intense for me! He came in to give me the epidural which was not as bad as I remembered it before. Doctor came in and decided to break my water to speed up the process. She broke it at 9am and by 10am I was fully dilated. I began pushing at 10:10am. I could basically feel everything but the contractions still, but I did not push the button for morphine. It got pretty intense for a minute but she was born at 10:27am! We named her Clara Elizabeth Gillispie, she was 6lbs 15.5oz and 18 1/2 in long. We couldn't be happier and big sister is doing amazing with her! We had some troubles at first but that has now passed.

ENJOY! We are :)