Beatrice Grace

Beatrice Grace Dunham

Born June 26th, 2014, 8 lbs. 2 oz., 19 inches long.  She is perfectly healthy, has the sweetest, mellow demeanor, and looks very much like her siblings when they were newborn.  

I am so glad we were able to be at the smaller hospital in town where Elsa and Nora were born.  Everything felt much more relaxed and comfortable to me (at least as relaxed and as comfortable as a hospital can be) than at the big medical center.  The c-section went well and thankfully was not quite as bad of an experience as I had been dreading - I still hated it but I wasn't a complete wreck through the whole process like I thought I might be.  I was way too wiped out to take any of my own photos for several days, but that's what grandmas are for right?  Joel's mother took plenty in the meantime.

Joel helped me get through the surgery and then held her almost all of the time we were in the hospital.  I am so blessed to have him be our family's Daddy.

The girls thought it was funny that I couldn't feel or move my legs, and I think at first they were equally excited to get to play with the hospital bed as meet their sister.

Elsa presented Beatrice with the hat she made, which is thankfully larger enough to still fit her when it gets cold.

and Nora gave her a "Pooh bear" snuggly toy - Nora's and Elsa's Pooh bears are perhaps their most important possessions (along with Oliver's which they insisted on keeping in the nursery to "help 'member him"), so it was very important that Beatrice receive her own right away.

We were so blessed to have Joel's mom, Nana, come to help with the older girls, plus it was the first time it has worked out for her to actually be in town for a grandchild's birth.  We only stayed in the hospital for two days, and we are so very thankful for her help!