It's A Girl!

Reina Leighton Eastman was born on Jan. 4th, 2009 at 10:24pm. She weighed 6lbs 10oz and scored 9 and 9 on her apgar tests (scale that goes to 10 ranking the "healthiness" of a newborn - she did great (10s are unheard of). I was in early labor at home for about 6 hours before heading to the hospital to wait another 15 hours before Reina would make her entrance. She came out with a full head of dark brown hair and a nice full cry. The doctors were worried about her during labor because unless I was laying on my left side her heart rate would drop. At one point four nurses and the midwife showed up, only to have me quickly change positions and put me on oxygen. AND...the midwife on call happend to be Commander Corey - my favorite doctor. Her and all of the nurses were amazing. All in all, the labor and delivery was pretty rough. It really is true what they tell you about giving birth - it hurts! We all came home Tuesday afternoon and are slowly recovering....although the exhaustion is slowly creeping up on us. We already went back in for Reina's newborn check up. She has lost about 5% of her birth weight which was great according to the pediatrician. Despite fighting a little bit of jaundice, Reina is doing great.

Thanks to the DoDDS "hotline" I think the whole world already knows Reina was born! We heard from Mr. Stevens, a teacher Chris and I had in 7th grade! We have slowly been taking pictures, but we're feeling a little busy! We're working on it though. I created a slideshow below that you can click on to see the pictures up close. Thanks for all of the supportive emails we've recieved.