We are offically a family of 5. Madelyn Elaine Maschino entered the world Saturday, October 17th at 12:30 a.m. She weighed 8.1 lbs and 19 1/2 in long. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Everything went well although not exactly to plan. I arrived at the hospital fully complete and ready to push. You know what that means . . . no epidural. This was NOT the plan. Was definately scared to death. I had no idea I was that far into labor and I had an epidural with both the boys, but after 4 minutes, yes only 4 minutes of pushing she arrived perfectly. It all happened so fast. My labor didn't start until 9:30 p.m. and she was here 3 hours later. WOW! We are heading home from the hospital Monday morning to begin our lives as a family of five. Max & Brock have visited us in the hospital 3 times and they love her. Max will be great with her, Brock is the one I will need to watch. He is so loving, but wants attention to and he's doing it by trying to pinch and poke. Well Madelyn is going to sleep so I am too.
