Sophie Mae Jensen

Ashley has been super busy with the baby so I, Daniel (new father) will be writing this blog post. Ashley is the history graduate and me the accounting, so don't expect the same quality of writing. 

This story begins on the coldest night of the year (-15* or so). Ashley was very uncomfortable on Sunday and was ready to have her baby already. All of us had chosen days for when we predicted the baby would come. Ashley thought she would come on the 17th because my family is in a habit of sharing birthdays. The 17th is our niece Bella's b-day. I was the most optimistic and chose the 16th. None of us were right since Sophie decided to come on the 14th. 

Ashley woke up on Monday at 3:00 a.m. and was starting to have contractions and could not stay asleep. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. and didn't not see my wife so I went outside to investigate and found her bouncing on her exercise ball and very much looking like she would have a baby sometime that day. 

 We decided to to go to the hospital at 6:00 a.m. as the contractions came closer together and were about 5-8 minutes apart.These are the pictures of Ashley as she was first admitted to the hospital. As you can see she was very smiley and happy before the really bad contractions came. Ashley was quite the trooper and toughed through a lot of mean contractions until she decided it would be best for her to have an epidural. Before the epidural she had one contraction that was so bad she threw up a few times. She received an epidural at around 11 a.m. and started to feel much better. Ashley took a nap for an hour and a half or so and then we just hung out awhile until she was ready to push. Ashley only had to push for about 5 contractions and 10 minutes before baby Sophie was born!

Sophie Mae Jensen is 7 lbs 8oz and 20 1/2 inches long

Grandma Jensen is soooo happy to finally have a grandchild here that she doesn't have to travel several hundred miles to see.

Sophie has been a very good eater so far and ate for about 45 minutes her first time

 Sophie looks so tiny in her car seat. 

We left the hospital around 6 p.m., the day after Sophie was born and we are very happy to have her healthy, safe, and happy. 

We were excited that my sister Marci and her family happened to be visiting this week. We didn't know if Sophie would make her appearance before they left to go back home. Baby Stella was very fascinated by Sophie and wanted to touch her sooo bad 

I got to give Sophie her first bath and dress her up, and pick out her first bow

Here we are as we are about to leave the hospital with our new baby