Our new little granddaughter is finally here - February 1, 2012. Embree Sage Wells weighed in at 7 lbs. 14 ozs. and was 20 1/2 inches long. Andrea went to her doctor's appointment yesterday and Dr. Degnan felt like she was ready and told her to be at the hospital this morning at 7:00. They had a bit of a scare - each time Andrea had a contraction the baby's heartbeat would get really low and then they couldn't find it at all.
The nurse called the doctor in and he decided that the baby was in trouble so even though Andrea was only dilated to 8 cm. he wanted the baby out immediately. He had to use forceps and literally pull little Embree out. Apparently the cord was wrapped around her neck causing her to stop breathing as the contractions tried to push her out. The nurse told Andrea that she was very blessed to have Dr. Degnan, who by the way is 80 years old, as her doctor because he is very skilled in using forceps. The only other option would have been a c-section which would have taken too long and the baby may have died. We are so thankful to our Heavenly Father for this special blessing and so glad to have our little Embree safely here. When we took big sister Halle in to see little Embree she really didn't say much but the continuous smile on her face was worth a thousand words.
