We are happy to announce that Lilia Cotterell was born last night at 12:38 AM. She weighs 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and is 19 inches long.
Faith had been kept up all Saturday night/Sunday morning with contractions. The contractions were not super strong, just enough to keep her awake. She only dozed about 40 minutes the whole night. I am amazed she functioned as well as she did yesterday. We went to church and by that time she was consistently contracting every 10 minutes. After church we just waited for them to increase in frequency and intensity until we decided it was time to go to the hospital. We called Steve and he came right over to be home with the boys. We got to the hospital at about midnight, got checked in, and Faith's water broke as we were still signing forms in the L&D room. Unfortunately that was before she could get an epidural. The nurses had called the doctor and he got to the room and barely got suited up in time to catch the baby. Faith did a great job and all of the nurses afterward were all impressed with how well she handled the delivery with just local anesthesia.
Faith and Lilia are both doing very well. We will post more pictures along as we go.
15 June 2009
She is Here!
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CONGRATS!!!!!!!! We are so happy for you and glad to hear that Mom & Lilia are both doing well -- we love you!
Hooray for you!!!! Congratulations to everyone! We're very happy for you and wish you all the best! Lilia is beautiful!
Congratulations Faith and Spencer! what a blessing that she came when she did. Faith, you're amazing. Glad to hear you're both doing well. I bet the boys will just love her.
Congrats, she is beautiful!!
Congrats you guys! She is beautiful!
congrats again! we'll be excited to meet her next month. :)
congratulations again!
have you told her who her favorite aunt is yet? ... just wondering. (:
Congratulations guys! Woo! She looks adorable. I'm trying to think of a different/funny way to say congratulations, but am failing. So congratulations again.
Congratulations, she is beautiful! You are so awesome, Faith! I am so glad she is finally here.
Congratulations! What a beautiful baby! We are so excited for you!
Congratulations! I can't wait to see more pictures! I am so glad that you really were in labor when I was talking to you on Saturday night! I was getting worried when I hadn't heard anything on Sunday. :-) I am so glad that all went well!
Congratulation! Way to go natural, i'm impressed!
Congrats, guys! I love the baby blog posts that the husbands do because the wives are still in the hospital. So, thanks for the update, Spencer! What a crazy delivery! I can't believe you went to church in labor, Faith! Congrats on having another VBAC, that is great. You are a strong pioneer woman for doing it with no epidural. I love the name Lilia. Congrats again, she's beautiful.
Don't worry, Eden. I took care of that.
Way to go, Faithy! and congrats to the Spencer Cotterell family!
Yahoo! Thanks for posting (and telling me about it!!). That was one fast delivery--were your boys that fast?! I'll be awaiting more pictures when you have time!
Yeah!! Congratulations!!
Congratulations! So exciting. I'm so glad Spencer is around for a bit this summer. I'll look forward to seeing more pics! :)
Congratulations! She's lovely.
She is so cute! Congrats Cotterell family!
Hooray! We are so glad you didn't make it to the 24th. :) We wish you well in the next few weeks with your precious little girl.
Yay! Congratulations!
What a beautiful name for a beautiful baby! Faith, you are hardcore. Way to go!!!
Congrats! That is so exciting! Glad that everything went well! She is so cute -- you're going to love having a girl!
Congrats Faith and Spencer!! I so excited for you both!! I can't believe how big Ben is and Andy I have missed our good old nelson apartment days!!
Now you got a girl in the mix! 2 to 3 odds now. Congrats!
WOW! Where have I been!? CONGRATS!!! So happy to hear all went well and now Lilia is here! Please call if you need anything! I just went through the whole 3 thing...and still am! It's so great!
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