Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Latest Addition!

We are proud to introduce our first Daughter Angeline May Neufeld!
She weighed in at 6lbs 6oz, 48 1/2 cm, and was born at 0523 hrs. (5:23am) on March 14th of 2009 that's the quick info.  
A day shy of 38 weeks!
Melissa did very well in dealing with an intense 5 hours of labor and 25 minutes of pushing.
She was quite alert like her brothers, but preferred to sleep after the first hour and a half looking around.


David is thrilled to be a big brother again!  He has given her hugs and has made very good attempts at saying her name.  When we asked him if we should take his sister home he said "ok!"

The story thus far goes as follows:  It all started with flu like symptoms starting the morning of the 13th Melissa was getting really tired and slightly dehydrated, so we all went to bed as early as possible (considering it lasted until late in the evening)  About a few hours of resting later (not sleeping) Melissa started having contractions, and thinking that this was just another round of pre-labor [apx. 0000 hrs] she proceeded upstairs to have a bath to help calm it down (leaving me to sleep... thank you!).  After soaking in the tub and not having any slow down Melissa woke up her Mom and started the timer [0130 hrs].  About 30 minutes later I was woken up as it was time to get organized because this was no false labor!  A quick call to our life saver Auntie Heather (A thousand thank yous!) to watch over David and she arrived in no time, so off we went to the hospital.  We arrived at the hospital [0245 hrs] and were in assessment for about 35 minutes where Melissa dealt with some contractions in the 5-6 cm. dilation range without any help from gas or drugs.  When a room was finally cleaned up (the hospital was full) we were in and making quick progress [0320 hrs].  At about 4:58am Melissa was 10cm and the doctor broke her water (and with a bit of fentanyl in her system) it was pushing time for Melissa and 25mins later (with an annoying 5 minute stall where we all panted the contractions through) we all had the news we were all waiting for... It's a baby!?!?  Mommy made an effort to watch this time and got to watch the baby come out (which she missed with the first two boys) and I helped with placing her on Mommies tummy and the cord cutting, but nobody knew what this baby was!  After realizing that there was no announcement we all went to flip the baby over and the nurse said it's a GIRL!
Whew!

Melissa and Angeline are both healthy and happy, and after waiting 6 hours in our delivery suite we got moved to a post-partum room (like I said the hospital was full).  Upon arrival we realized that we were not going to get much rest as we had neighbors in suite, we decided that it would be best to go home as soon as possible.  Our neighbors were very nice and the father had a great camera with a detailed zoom lens so we look forward to seeing the photo's of our daughter Angeline and their son Luke.  As we made it clear to the nurses that we wanted to go (and they were overfull so they made sure we could) we had a few checks, a bath for Angeline and we were gone.  After a quick stop at McDonald's for Melissa (and cones for Daddy and David) we arrived at home at 4:30pm.  What a day!

20 comments:

BSLytwyn said...

OMGosh I am so over the top excited and happy for you both. Congrats, she is so adorable and amazing. I love her name as well, very unique and suit's her a lot. She look's a lot like you meliss but I do see a lot of Jon in her as well. Now baby Brooke has a best girlfriend, with awsome parents lol. Your mom was the closest on the poll guessing the right date and the closest in weight but mommy fell close behind guessing the right date just a little bit off on the weight- defiantly Mommy and Nanna instinct. I can't wait to meet you're precious baby girl, Angeline. Let me know as soon as you are up for visitors and i'll be over as soon as possible.

Love and hug's.
Sheena.

Anonymous said...

So beautiful and the pictures of David are priceless. Congrats Jon and Melissa, so very happy for your family. Love you! A. Jo

LeAnna (and David) said...

hooray! Congratulations you guys!

Anonymous said...

Congratulations you guys! We can't wait to meet Angeline! We're glad everything went well. Thanks for posting pictures so soon. Very cute indeed.

Anonymous said...

Jared and I are both so thrilled on the arrival of baby Angeline. Congratulations on your beautiful baby girl.

I was one ounce off in guessing the correct weight. So close! Jared owes me a hour long massage and a date night of my choice because it is a GIRL!!!!

We are so happy for all of you. We will be sending some very cute Australian things for Angeline this week. The two of us look forward to holding her and spending lots of time with her and her big brother.

Good job on the birth Melissa and congratulations once again. Angeline is very cute and looks like her older brothers.

We love you lots.

Uncle Jared and Katherine

Jenn Stevenson said...

Congratulations!
Wow - good guessing Melissa! That's a quick hospital turnaround - good for you guys, be sure to take it easy and get some rest, you must be exhausted!
I am so glad that you had a cute baby girl, I guessed girl!
Lovely little baby, can't wait to meet her!
Love Jenn, Matt, B & Bump

Karen said...

she is just gorgeous! thanks for the quick chat on web cam. can't wait to see her and hold her in person! i see alot of david in her in these pics. david is so cute with her...

diane sudermannn said...

Hey Melissa: Congratulations on a beautiful baby girl. I'm so happy for you and Jon. I so enjoy your blog. Diane Sudermann

Anonymous said...

Yippeee!!!! Congratulations to all of you on a job well done! The photos are so precious, she is just as bright as can be and simply adorable. David looks like he's grown 5 inches with pride at his new sister.

We can't wait to see her....

Lauren Laidler said...

congratulations once again guys on your beautiful baby girl! she is absolutely adorable and i LOVE pics of angeline & david. he is going to be the best big brother ever. looking forward to seeing you all and new baby on the webcam hopefully soon!? love and prayers to you guys. we're sooo happy for you! she's stunning! love and hugs!
xoxoxoxox

Rachel said...

CONGRATUS YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!! she is such a cutie and so alert! glad to hear that everything went quickly and smoothly! looking forward to meeting her soon! lots of love from us!

andrew, rach and asher

Sabrina said...

Hey
Theresa called me to tell me the news last night...yeah! I'm so excited to meet the little Angeline, beautiful name by the way. I'll be in Vancouver next weekend...any chance I could try to come and visit and meet her? Hope to see you in a week!

xox

Michelle said...

Congratulations! I am so excited to meet your new addition. Girl's are great! It sounds like you did awesome Melissa.

Lindsay said...

Congrats Neufelds! She is beautiful!! Very excited for you all :)

Nicole Elisabeth said...

sooo happy and excited for you! what a blessing, and shes sooo pretty! I hope you're having the time of your life right about now. Congrats!

Anonymous said...

Congrats!!! She is so beautiful...

Cindy

theBreedvelds said...

Congrats!! I can't wait to meet her! She is so little and so sweet! What a blessing!

Anonymous said...

What a blessing added to your family. We are overjoyed for this new life that has come into your lives. God bless & Love
Marie, Jody and Joseph Halverson

M-Squared Family said...

WOW!! Congratulations! Lovely pictures and such a beautiful name! So excited for you all!

Unknown said...

Just wanted to leave a little "congratulations" and hope everything is going really well for you all :o) David looked well chuffed in the pictures - so cute!!! :o) love from the Joyces xxx