It's A Girl!!!

We are so very excited to present:

Skylar McCall Comfoltey

She was born this morning at 2:55 AM (10/5/08)

Weight: 8 lbs. 2 ozs.

Length: 22 inches

Eyes: They look blue right now, but I think most newborns have blue eyes originally...

Hair: Brown, and lots of it!

Well she's finally here!  We're so excited to have her!  She is definitely the cutest baby I've ever seen.

We were originally scheduled to come in at 10:00AM.  However, we received a call from the hospital shortly before 8AM and they informed us that the hospital had no beds available.  So we waited around at home for until 3PM at which time the hospital said that we could come in!  Kylie was admitted at 3:30PM and had stable contractions about 2 minutes apart all the way through.  She was amazing!  Kylie delivered Skylar a 2:55AM after about 2 hours of pushing.

The nurses were excellent and they really helped us feel as comfortable as possible with what was going on.  The supervisor, Kimbra, gave Skylar a perfect APGAR rating of 10!  Skylar's skin was almost immediately pink over her entire body.  She was strong and very active.  Kimbra told us it was the only 10 she's given all year.  Skylar is a very healthy baby.

So it's been about 12 hours since little Skylar joined us.  The first hour she stayed with us in the delivery room.  Then she spent 3 or so hours in the nursery.  They got her all clean and tested her for all sorts of baby things.  After that she came to stay with us.  She slept for about 5 hours straight, even when we tried to wake her up to feed her, she would fall fast asleep.  She is definitely an easy baby right now.  She has only cried a few times since she was born and she only cries for about 10-30 seconds at a time.  It's amazing!  Even when the nurses were poking her and turning her all over to clean and test her, she just went along with it.  She's just such a good little girl :)  

(On a side note, the poor kid next door has been crying for the last few hours and was crying for at least 4 hours earlier this morning too.  We can't hear it too well from our room, but that's what the nurses are saying)

Here is a picture of Kylie holding Skylar and Sky holding Ky's pinky (fierce grip on this kid!)

This is my current view of Skylar (taken while sitting in a chair with a laptop on my lap).

Love,

Mike

PS: If anything doesn't make sense in this post, it's because we have not really slept in a while :)

PPS: I started this post about an hour ago so Skylar is sleeping on Kylie right now.  Occasionally she'll make a cute little noise.  They're both so beautiful.