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| The new and improved Bogarts! |
April 2, 2013 will go down as the day in which Laura's prayers were answered. We had scheduled an induction for our to-be second child. Similar to 'induction day' with Henry, Laura got up early so she could get ready as if she were going to work (which I guess, in a way, she was :) ). As is the Bogart way, we were running behind. We were to be at the delivery room around 7:30am. At 8:00, we had just gotten to the Plaza, and still needed to drop off Henry at daycare, so Laura had to be dropped off on her own to start the process while Reggie ran Henry over to daycare. Trying to score some points, Reggie arrived at the delivery room with a latte for Laura, since there is a lot of down time before anything really gets going in an induction. Unbeknownest to him, however, apparently you cannot have coffee the day you are giving birth. So Laura's loss was nurse Kim's gain!
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| Last belly shot - fully baked |
This time around we were pretty locked in on our name choices. We knew if it was a girl that the middle name would be 'Leigh,' after Laura's sister Jen. We had two first names at the ready depending on what she looked like. With no need to endlessly scour the naming websites before the labor process got going, our morning was pretty boring. Reggie made the mistake of making this observation audibly to Laura, who shot him a snarky response right back!
Labor was both much harder and much easier this time around. Laura had issues getting her epidural to take to both sides of her body, which caused some immense pain until they were able to get it all fixed. On the flip side, the pushing was much easier this time around. The doctor was called, and immediately asked if Reggie was ready to call the sex. Literally 8 minutes later, Aubrey made her grand appearance! Laura wouldn't believe Reggie when he announced it twice. It took Dr. Schieber actually showing Aubrey to her to convince her that yes, indeed, she had her girl. She was an absolutely perfect and beautiful 7lbs, 8oz. and 19.5" long. Lucky for us, she was also immediately into eating, unlike her brother. As the family came in to meet our little girl, Reggie immediately started to look to see what the going rate was for a pint of blood as a way to keep up with Laura's projected spending :)
We had Henry meet Aubrey on his own first, and as he entered the delivery room he started singing 'Happy Birthday.' He was singing it to Laura, but, whatever, it is the thought that counts! We then had him announce to the family sitting out in the waiting room the sex of the baby. It was a perfect day.
