Lucia Lynn Fatica

This is John posting. Abbey is busy recovering, so I'm going to post a brief story and some vitals.

I climb into bed at about 2:30am Tuesday morning shortly after arriving home from work when Abbey springs up exclaiming that I kicked her. "No wait, my water broke!" And just like that, we were off to the hospital.

Everything seemed to be advancing very quickly. Contractions started shortly after we got the hospital. Contractions became almost unbearable after about an hour. (Note: do not tap your fingers on the chair while your wife is having a contraction.) Abbey received an epidural, and the nurse informed us that she was already at 7cm! This is at about 6am. After that, everything pretty much stopped....except for the contractions. We stayed at 7cm for almost 6 hours. The doctor increased the inducing medication to try and get things moving again. Finally everything picked up and we were at 10cm within an hour. There was about an hour of pushing, some slight thoughts of a c-section since the baby seemed stuck, and then finally some forcep action. We had our baby girl.


She was born at 2:00pm on February 19th, 2008. She weighed 6lbs 14oz, and was 18.5 inches long. The professional hospital picture can be found here (pictures will be posted Wednesday night).

Pictures taken by family and friends can be found here.

Oh yeah, and we'll call her Luci for short :)