Lauren's Stats at 2 weeks old

Weight - 7.70#
Height - 20"
Head - 14.21

Lauren needed some help burping

At just a little over a week old, Lauren had some visitors and little Cole wanted to help burp her. Afterwards he gave her a kiss! Isn't it cute!!!!! Thanks Cole!

*Little did we know that Lori was pregnant with baby Kate at the time! :-)

Lauren finally arrived!

After 27 glorious hours of labor Lauren arrived happy and healthy on June 3! 6 lbs 11 oz and 20.5 inches long. She is wonderful and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat!

Lauren's Arrival Story

After 27 ½ hours of labor, we had our little angel. Here is our story…

At 4 a.m. on Saturday, June 2nd, 2007 I awoke with a contraction. I got up and Kraig said, “Are you ok?” and I said, “I think I just had a contraction.” He said “well, they told us to just go back to sleep if we can”, so that’s what we did. I woke up every once in a while with contractions so I started timing them and by 7 a.m. I could not sleep anymore. I got up and took a shower just in case it was the real thing. The contractions were not that strong, but were every 15 minutes. Throughout the day they got closer and stronger. By 2:30 p.m. Kraig and I were ready to speed up the process so we went walking around our neighborhood. By 3:00 p.m. they were 5-6 minutes apart. We went in the house and they didn’t stop so we went to the hospital to see if we were actually in labor or if we were experiencing Braxton-hicks contractions. The hospital monitored us for 4 hours. I was dilated 2 cm and my contractions were regular, however after 2 hours of walking, I was not progressing so they sent us home at 7:30 p.m. but said that they would probably see us again later that night. They were right! Kraig and I left the hospital and went to Shogun to take home some dinner. After we ate I laid down in bed and slept for 1 hour and woke up at 9 p.m. with the most pain I had felt all day so I knew something was going on. I didn’t want to go back to the hospital afraid they would send us home again, but after a few minutes of monitoring my contractions, we realized they were about 2-3 minutes apart. The pain was much more intense, so much so that I wanted to cry! With a little persuasion from Kraig, we decided to go back to the hospital. At 10:30 p.m. they checked me and found that I was dilated to 4 cm and checked us into room #23. They said “earlier you didn’t have an I’m in labor face…now you have that face, so we are going to keep you!” I was excited because I knew that meant that I could get an epidural! To my surprise they had to do lab work before I could get it and the anesthesiologist had to do a stat C-section, so I had to wait until 1:30 a.m. (2 ½ hours) to get my epidural and by this point I had dilated to 5 cm. Thank goodness for the Lamaze classes because without those I think I would have lost it and would not have been able to control the pain like I did. I felt much better after the epidural but was exhausted since I had been up since 7 a.m. (except for a 1 hour nap). Kraig and I both slept until 3:30 a.m. (2 hours) at which the nurses checked me and found I was dilated to 8 cm! We called our parents to let them know our progress and told them they didn’t need to rush up to the hospital, but they did anyway! At 6 a.m. I was dilated to a 9 but Lauren's heart rate kept dropping, so the nurses said "lets start pushing and see if we can get that last cm out of the way" so we began pushing. Kraig and I were excited to meet Lauren! After 1 ½ hours and a few different labor positions due to Lauren’s heart rate dropping multiple times, Lauren finally arrived, perfect as could be at 7:23 a.m. on June 3, 2007! The interesting part was that after all that pushing, Lauren actually arrived by me laughing! Kraig was talking to our Dr. about Las Vegas and how our Dr. had just been there on vacation and she saw all these people wearing chains and letting their chest hair hang out, etc...well Kraig started laughing and talking about how he would totally show his chest hair if he had any, but 'oh, it's just so bald' and that got us all laughing, which made Lauren finally pop out. (I think Kraig was a little excited and nervous at this point so he was just talking more than normal) Of course the Dr. was being nice and let things progress slowly so that I would be in the best shape possible after birth and I would like to thank her for that! My recovery was not that bad considering the hour and a half of pushing...so thank you Dr. Weathers! After Lauren arrived, Kraig cut the cord and we had our wonderful baby! She was beautiful with 10 tiny fingers and 10 tiny toes!
6/3/07
7:23 a.m.
6 lbs, 11 oz
20.5 inches long

-Kraig, Connie and Lauren Williams

Diaper Shower

We had our first shower this weekend hosted by Edie Bliss. The theme... Diapers! Look at all the wonderful gifts we got! Thanks everyone! We love everything and really appreciate it! I'm 31 weeks and 5 days in the photo. : )

New Nursery Photos

Hello everyone! Kraig and I painted the letters for Lauren's room this weekend and Kraig put them up tonight. We think it turned out pretty cute and hope Lauren appreciates the work that went into it some day! LOL! We also found our glider this weekend and let me tell you, I about fell asleep in it just rocking to see if I liked it...so it was a great investment as I've heard that a comfortable chair is something you MUST have because you will spend a lot of time in it! So we are pretty close to being finished with the nursery...we just have a few things to finish and then of course the most important thing...baby Lauren's arrival! We can't wait! Anyway, enjoy the photos!

6 months!

As you can see my belly is starting to round out! I think Kraig and I are surprised everyday at the change! So far so good. We go to the doctor every 2 weeks now and I'll have my Gestational Diabetes Test at week 28 so hopefully I'll pass! I'll let you know.

We had our first birthing class tonight. How to bath a baby, change a diaper and swaddle a baby or as Kraig puts it "wrap it like a burrito" were the topics of discussion. It was fun! We got to enjoy it with Emily and Kyle Coleman as they were taking their last birthing class. We took this class first because we are going to be on vacation on the actual date we were supposed to take it...so they let us switch it out. I can't believe 6 months have already passed! Little Lauren is growing and kicking or moving all the time. It's crazy! They gave us babies tonight to learn on, and the nurse said the babies looked a little on the big side but that they were a normal birth size...I think Emily and I were both thinking "there is no way a baby that size is going to come out of us!" I guess we shall see in a few more months! : )

24 week photos

Here are my 24 week photos (aka 5.5 months). I'm sure Kraig is tired of taking photos of me...especially tonight as we had to take 6 photos in order to get 3 good ones that were not blurry! Oh well, he is a trooper! He has actually been awesome this whole pregnancy...always worrying about me and making sure I'm not carrying things that are over 25 lbs. He loves to talk to my belly and rub it so that her daddy will know who he is when she is born! I think it's really cute! He is an awesome husband and is going to be a great dad to little Lauren! I'm very lucky! I can't believe that 5 1/2 months have already passed! Only 3 1/2 more months to go!

It's a girl

We found out at 22 weeks that we are having a little girl! Kraig was right!

20 week photo

These are photos of me at 20 weeks which I thought was 5 months...but actually I was 1 week away from being 5 months pregnant. I'm starting to show a bit more! Still carrying very low so lots of people think it's a boy! Kraig is set on a girl and I have no idea! Exciting!