Introducing: AMELIA JANE PETRINI

That's right, she has finally made her grand entrance! Amelia was born on Friday, July 11th at 2:47pm, weighing 7lbs 14.9oz! I still haven't heard how long she was, but overall, she is just perfect and healthy!

Reader's Digest Version of Labor and Delivery:
If you read my previous post, you will note that I was having contractions Thursday night, and went to Triage around midnight to get checked out. Around 3am, they sent me home, telling me it could still be another day or two based on my progress. Boy were they wrong. We came home, and I tried to sleep, but after an hour, the contractions just got stronger. So I got up, recorded my contractions, had a bowl of cereal, then decided around 6am that I couldn't take it anymore and that she was coming soon. We called out reinforcements to help with the kids (A big THANK YOU to my friends Anjuli, Giselle and Maricel for helping!!!) and we were off to the hospital by 7am...right during rush hour of course! Upon arrival, I was crying through contractions and asking for an epidural ASAP. It took them 2 hours to finally admit me due to shortage of delivery rooms that morning, but told me I got the last room! Around 10am, my water broke. At 11am, they finally gave me that blessed Epidural! I've never been happier!!! Around noon, they said I was 5cm, and they thought it would still be a long process, but I progressed quickly and around 2pm, I told them I felt the need to push. At 2:30 I was a 10 and so they set the room up and called in the forces and after only a few minutes of pushing, Amelia was here!

After 24 hours, they told me I had the option to go home early because I was recovering so well and the baby looked great, so after John picked up my mom from the airport, I was discharged from the hospital and came home last night.

Here are some pictures of her special day:

Cutting the cord...a second time

My biggest baby yet:

This little gal feeds like a champ...she knew just what to do.

Getting all cleaned up. She didn't like it at first.

But once she was getting her head and hair scrubbed, I think she rather enjoyed it because she calmed right down.


The kids came bearing gifts for baby Amelia. Then we sang Happy Birthday to her. Bella has been practicing this song for weeks to sing to the baby. I wish I had my video going during it. It was so sweet.


And of course, the kids were even more excited to see that Amelia had brought some gifts of her own to her new brother and sister.

"How did she know I wanted a rocket...this is so cool!" -Ben

"It's a princess!" -Bella


First family Photo:


Grandma Coleby flew in the next day to come see the baby and I'm excited we will have here around all week.!


Stay tuned as I will post some more pictures of our little Amelia. Thanks to everyone for voting for the names....your votes actually counted as I was leaning toward Madelyn for awhile...also a very cute name.