Welcome Lainey Elizabeth!

Lainey Elizabeth Ludlow was born on Friday, July 22nd at 4:36pm and we couldn't feel anymore blessed!! It was an easy delivery and she is perfect and healthy!! It was a long week the week before she delivered. on Friday the 15th I contracted ALL DAY long so when Scott got home for the day we decided to go into the hospital and get checked out. I was 2cm and contracting every 3-5min but after 2hours of being watched I stayed 2cm so they sent me home. I was feeling pretty frustrated and uncomfortable. NJ and Megan decided when they heard I was going to the hospital to go ahead and come to Memphis since they were going to watch Jackson and Leah. I figured it would happen any day. On Wednesday I had a Dr.'s appt and he said I wa s 3cm and thought it would happen in the next day or two. I went back in on Friday after 2 more days of contractions and he said I was 4cm and went ahead and sent me to the hospital. I was so glad, because if I hadn't delivered on Friday, megan was going to leave to go back home since she had already been there for a week and her and NJ were planning on being in the delivery room. I would have been so sad if she missed it!!

So anyway, they admitted me and started Pitocin to get some contractions going and the Dr. came over at 1pm to break my water. I got my epidural at 3pm and by 4pm i was 10cm and delivered at 4:36pm. We were so excited to see we had another beautiful princess!! She is almost the exact same size leah was. Lainey was 20inches and Leah was 19 3/4inches and Lainey weighed 6lbs 15.8ounces so they rounded to 7lbs and Leah was 6lbs 13ounces. Crazy how close their sizes are!! She is beautiful and absolutely perfect!! It is crazy to me how she already fits so perfectly into our family. I love her so much!! Megan went to my Dr.'s appt on Friday with me while NJ watched the kids and Scott went ahead and went to work until i knew I was admitted. This is Megan and I when we first got to the hospital before I was hurting :) Sorry I couldn't get pics to rotate.

We should have known we were having a girl when we had the name Lainey picked out and our nurses name that day was Laine. I worked at Germantown for a short time when we first moved here and had the pleasure of working with a lot of the girls there and Laine was one of them I always got along with really well so i was glad she took care of us that day.

Scott and I when he first got to the hospital. He is so cute, he wore his "The Time Is Now" Mavericks playoff t-shirt to the hospital! I thought that was pretty clever :)

Lainey Elizabeth right after she was born. She had a cord around her neck when she was born so she was kind of pale and there was a question about her chest not looking quite symmetrical so they had NICU come and look at her when she was first born. She pinked up pretty quickly after they came down and they think it was just from the cord around her neck and they think her chest looking uneven was just from her position when I was pregnant because by that night in the nursery she already looked more symmetrical...just enough to scare mommy and daddy right after she was born :)

Mommy and Lainey!!

Our sweet new baby with Mommy and Daddy

Aunt NJ and Lainey

Aunt Megan and Lainey. I think Megan was holding her breath when I was pushing because she got really pale and felt like she was going to pass out so she had to sit for a little while :)

Daddy's girl already

Cuddling with Mommy

Nj and Megan picked up the kids after I delivered and drove them to the hospital for us to tell them the sex of their new sibling. They were both so excited to hear they had a new baby sister. Jackson wanted to hold her right away and has wanted to hold her ever since, Leah has been a little more apprehensive with holding her. She loved to kiss her and touch her but still hasn't held her in the 4 days since we have had her. Leah comes around on her own time and she always has...love that girls strong-will!

Leah with Daddy in her Big Sister Skull t-shirt :)

Lainey after bath-time...look at all that hair!!! It's a little lighter than I thought it would be.

Lainey with a sleepy Mommy.

The cutest thing!! Lainey LOVES to stretch!! Her favorite position is to hold her legs straight up in the air, she did it right after she delivered and she loves to do it now, even when she is sleeping. It is so cute to see her skinny little legs straight in the air.

Proud big brother.

First family picture of the 5 of us, couldn't get everyone to pose, but I still love to see all 5 of us together. We are so lucky to have our family!!

Lainey also loves to suck her fingers and her best friend is her Pacifier!! She loves that Paci!!

I love how her hair looks like Lloyd from Dumb and Dumber here :)

Lainey and her best friend...now it's hard to get a picture of her without it!!!

I have to take the time to thank NJ for taking such good care of the kids while we were in the hospital. I do not know what we would have done without her and the kids absolutely adore her so I never had to worry that they were missing Mommy and Daddy while we were there. We cannot thank her enough!! Love you NJ!

We have more pics to share from the last couple of days at home that we will share tomorrow!! We love you so much already Lainey!!