Coming home

Oh happy day- we're coming home!! What an overwhelming experience to put that tiny little girl in the car and leave the hospital we'd been hiding in for 4 days. The weather was terrible and streets were flooded, but we set out on our adventure about 2:30. You can see how impressed Sierra was with the moment. We made it home and are settling in- it feels so good!

Mom vs Food

I finally get real food again! A wonderful, wonderful hubby offered me to fetch any food I wanted, so I ordered up that reuben sandwich I'd been craving during months of pregnancy. Papa called up the local NY deli and was off to pick it up.
Well, I got a reuben. I think I got about 3 lbs of reuben. In fact, the reuben might have weighed more that little Sierra. Delicious, but enormous.
For any fans of Adam Richman: This time, food won.

The Baby Has Landed!

Just after 6:30PM on Friday October, 23, our beautiful little daughter Sierra Elizabeth Pichot arrived in the big bright world. She weighed in at 7lbs 1oz and is 19.5" long. It was a long 17 hours of labor for Mama, and not everything went according to our birth plan, but all is well and everybody's doing well now.

More pics from the nursery

The Readers Digest version is as follows:
It started with Chrissy going into labor at 2 in the morning with regular contractions and plenty of back pain. Around 4:30 the doctor (I can't even remember which Doctor it was at this point) told us to head into the hospital. We got checked into the hospital at 5:00 and set up all our paraphernalia. Fast forward through 14 hours of natural labor (read: no drugs) and the sleep/exhaustion was starting to take its toll as she was getting close to transition. Baby had decided to turn sunny-side up and causing Mama lots of back pain. Doc broke the water & found meconium, (insert epidural here), we started seeing 2 different types of heart rate drops, and our 4th doc of the week decided there was probably some fetal distress, so we were off for a quick C-section to see our new addition. Faster than a Ginsu knife commercial, our new daughter had arrived. She had the cord wrapped around her neck, but was doing great once she made it out. After a trip through the nursery to be weighed, bathed, etc, Mom and baby got finally got to be together around 10 Friday night.

So now it's on to recovery, training Papa in the baby-arts and getting Mama back on her feet!

Oh Hai!

And we're off!

So, here's the first post! Very exciting, right? We promise this site will soon be full of cuteness- check back for Baby P updates! Until then, leave your vote- will Baby P be a boy or a girl??