Ella Brittany Snow

"Proud Daddy"

"One of her first pictures"

"Wonder what he's thinking"

"Proud Mommy"

"Such an amazing experience"

3:14 p.m.

"Excited Uncle"

"Awaiting the arrival of our Precious Baby Girl"

"Excited Grandma to be and Great-Grandma"

"Such a beauty" geez it takes the life out of ya

Our beautiful baby girl was born on Saturday, September 18th, 2010. What a blessing and miracle she is to Ryan and I and many more people.

I didn't feel very good the night before, we were over at Ryan's brother Todd's house for dinner, and i was ready to get home. I woke up around 3 in the morning and had some cramping and kinda felt like i had wet the bed, i laid there for a minute and feel back to sleep, (now i know what you are all thinking, how could she go back to sleep if she thought she wet the bed) well when your so asleep i just fell back to sleep. Anyway I woke up about 30 minutes later and thought maybe my water broke and my cramping was still there. So i went to sit up and and get off the bed and more water came, so i walked in the bathroom and it was running down my leg, i called for Ryan to come and i said to him, i think my water broke, he was shocked, and then the excitement set in and he was so happy and had the biggest smile on his face, the first i had seen in awhile. I told him i was nervous, he gave me a hug and i can't tell you how happy he was to finally meet his baby girl that he and i had waited so long for.

Well, i hadn't packed my bag yet, so i hurried and threw some stuff in a bag and off we were, i called my mom and my sister. My sister told me to hurry up and get to the hospital, i knew i had some time before i was going to have her, I remember pulling up to the hospital and saying to ry just go park the car and i'll walk, ry said no i'll park the car at the front at Valet, i remember saying something about Valet Parking, and my brother in law Taras from Canada heard me say that and said "What, you have a Valet there" what hospital has a Valet. It was so funny, i was filled with excitement, fear, the unknown, I remember checking in and just thinking to myself, relax, look around and take it all in. It was so surreal, we were finally at the hospital to have a baby. They took me back to room #5. It was probably a little after 4 a.m. i was sitting in the bed and the nurse was asking me questions, and i had this urge to push, water was coming and alot, i told the nurse and she said oh that's ok your going to be leaking water the whole time during labor, she came and checked me and said oh, you are leaking alot, so she cleaned it up.

They told me that i needed to have my I.V. first before my epidural, so they tried to find a vein and after 5 attempts, they finally got it. I was so nervous to get my epidural and thought i might as well get it now cause i'm going to want it sooner then later and my contractions were every few minutes apart and i just wanted to get it over with, so i got it a little after 6. Then i thought i was dilating pretty quickly, i was dilated to a 10 by around noon, i thought geez this is going great, then they had me start pushing and i didn't think it would take very long, but boy was i wrong, i pushed for 3 hours and 14 minutes. The doctor came in and said that they usually let you go about 3 hours and then they would take other action if necessary, i didn't want a c-section, since i had just pushed that long, if i could i wanted to still try and do it the way i was. He let me cause i was doing fine and ella's heart rate didn't drop once which we were very blessed. I've said that it was Grandma Carolyn and Auntie Brittany holding onto her for just another minute.

It was such an amazing experience and we are so truly blessed to have a beautiful healthy baby girl. She was born at 3:14 p.m. and weighed 7.8 and 20 3/4 in. long