She's Here!

Camilla Chaya made her entrance yesterday morning at 5:14am. It was a very long night after we arrived at the hospital at 9:40 pm. I was only 3 cm dilated which astounded me after the amt of contractions I had had before arriving, but my doctor ok'd admitting me, and my contractions stayed strong all night, keeping me up all but about 30 mins. In a nutshell, it was probably my longest birth experience of the four girls, i.e. the longest length of time I felt pain. Kayla's takes the cake for most painful since it was without drugs, but I'm not certain which I'd prefer.

Here I am two days later, still exhausted between little sleep on Sun night and night-time feedings on Monday night, so I think it's been the most tiring of my births as well. Or, one could always chalk it up to getting older.

For those that live around here, we were talking about naming her Rayna Rachelle up until the birth. Somehow after she came, it just didn't seem to fit eventhough it fit all our criteria for names, so we went back to talking about other names. I mentioned Camille, the name of Pres. Kimball's wife (or so I thought), and there was just something that felt right. We corrected it to Camilla since that was actually Pres Kimball's wife. It has Latin roots meaning Pure, or noble, or also unblemished character which we liked. Since we both like Hebrew names, we paired Camilla with Chaya (pronounced Ki-yah), meaning life, keeping our pattern of double letters for our first and middle names. We'll be calling her Cami for short. Now Abri won't be the only one with a nickname in the house.

Emma was very disappointed when we told her Camilla was the new baby's name--she feels its too "unusual and weird" and she doesn't like it. She liked Rayna and thought it was pretty but didn't ever classify it as unusual or weird. Go figure. Abri didn't have any opinion on the matter, and of course, Kayla is barely saying one syllable words to give an opinion.

I'll post pics soon, but to describe her: she has brown hair, less than any of the other girls, chin with prominent cleft/dimple, charcoal eyes (for now), long arms, fingers, and toes, with Todd's nose (we suspect), and my lips and ears. She weighed 7 lbs 1 oz at birth, length 19 3/4 inches, the smallest of all our girls. But, she's healthy and doing well.