Announcing Alexa

May 28, 2012 at 12:03pm Alexa (Lexi) was born at home after only a 4 hour labor, 44 hours quicker than Addison's birth!  I was hoping to go into labor after getting a full nights sleep and I was hoping for a quicker labor this time so I was happy that both happened.  At 8am I started having short contractions and by noon Lexi was born.  Lexi and I are doing well.  I feel much more rested this time around.  With Addison I was exhausted after she was born and it was harder to handle everything because I was so tired.  This time I feel really good.  It was nice to have Steve, my mom, and two of my sisters at the birth (and Lexi's two week old cousin, Miriam, who by the way is smaller than Lexi lol).  Lexi was 7 lbs. 15 ozs and 20.5 inches long. (Miriam is 7 lbs. 9 ozs.  We took pictures of them together which will get posted sometime).  My dad took Addison and her cousin Doug to the petting zoo at Thanksgiving Point while I was in labor so when she got home and met Lexi she said "Baby came out".  I was surprised she seems to understand that.  This morning I told her the baby is not in my tummy anymore and showed her my smaller tummy and this afternoon she was holding Lexi and she said "Baby came out of mommy's tummy".  She seems to understand more than I thought she would.  We'll try to post pictures and video soon.