Emily Paige Rogers: Welcome to the world Emily

On Friday 24th Febuary at 9:24am Emily Paige Rogers was born.
Weighing a healthy 4.025kgs (8pounds 14ounces) and measuring 54cm long.

That's the basics .....

If you're not to squeamish, keep reading for the full birthing story of Emily.

Chad and I arrived at the hospital at 7am....very excited and very nervous.

After making it through admin, we were admitted to the Delivery wing. Here we were given one of the smaller rooms.... as I wasn't going through labour, they used one of of the small rooms to do the preparations for the Caesar. This prep included a whole lot of initial tests, such as my blood pressure and temperature, then I had to use the showers to wash in a special antiseptic soap and then we were outfitted in our super awesome hospitals outfits.... a gown for me and scrubs for Chad.

After that it was off to surgery. Here Chad waited outside while they hooked up my IV and my epidural. Once I was all settled and a screen was up over my chest, Chad joined us in the theater.

The next thing I knew, they said that she was almost here, lowered the screen slightly and let us watch her being born. She was quickly moved to an incubator where she was rubbed dry, warmed and checked, all under Dad's supervision. He also had the chance to cut the cord!

Then while i was being sown back up (about 30 min) ... she was placed on my chest and her Chad and I had some time together! It was here that Chad and I discussed her name... and before they had finished with me... she was named Emily Paige Rogers.

Once I was all sown up,we were moved to recovery area and it was here that Emily was weighed and measured and we then enjoyed some precious skin to skin time.

Once they were certain we were all ok, we were moved to the Maternity ward, which was to be our home for the next 6 days.