It's that time again!

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Sorry I can't get it to load here. Gjanden will have to try it later. The rest of you....watch out! You never know when we'll get your picture in one of these.

Growing like a weed

We took Kaitlyn to her first Doctors visit on Monday. He said that she's one of the healthiest looking newborns he's ever seen. She's gained back her birth wieght plus two ounces, so she weighs 7 pounds 4 ounces now and she grew 3 inches. Yep, that's right...3 whole inches. Almost 4 actually. She was 17 1/2 inches long at birth and is now 20 1/2 inches long. That's in only two weeks! Add on to the fact that she's already gained her birth weight back and I'd have to agree with our Doctor's assesment that she is a very healthy little girl. Gjanden made the comment that if our kids keep growing the way they do that they'll outgrow us for sure. I'm inclined to agree with that statement too.

Kaitlyn Adara Mitchell

Yesterday Brittany was induced at the hospital. We went in around 7:00 and got things rolling by about 9:00. Our regular doctor was out of town, so we had a stand in doctor overseeing the delivery. They put Brittany on some drugs that started her contractions coming more frequently and with greater intensity. A few hours later an anesthesiologist came in and gave Brittany an epidural, but only had time to give her one dose before being called back to an emergency with another delivery.

Around 1:30 our stand in doctor came to check how things were progressing and decided to go ahead and break her water. After this Brittany sent me to go get some lunch for myself since I hadn't eaten since 6:00 that morning.

Shortly after I left the anesthesiologist came back to set up the epidural drip but told her there would be a few contractions that she would be able to feel because of the lapse in doses. He left and at this point she was the only person in the room. She felt 3 contractions that were really painful. On the fourth one she felt her hips widening and on the fifth one she felt Kaitlyn's head pop out. Brittany started calling for help, both pushing the nurse's call button and calling out the door.

By this point I had finished my lunch (most of it anyways, for some reason I decided I didn't want to finish my tatter tots). I walked back from the cafeteria and up to the room that I thought I had left her in. There was some hand sanitizer outside the room, so I lathered up and got ready to enter the room. Suddenly there were several nurses and the anesthesiologist rushing to the room next door and I heard Brittany yelling for help. I followed the nurses into the room just in time to see Kaitlyn finish sliding out.

Now for the stats:

Born: 10/19/09 at 2:17 pm

Weight: 7 Lbs 2 Oz

Length: 17.5 Inches

Strawberry Blond Hair.