Baby Lila's arrival

Welcome Lila Arlene

Lila was just born, weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz, 19.5 inches. Mom, Dad, and baby are doing great!!

It's time!

Jill is fully dilated and has just started pushing! We should have a baby girl very soon. Stay tuned!

Birthday!!

Jerod and I came in to the hospital last night around 11:45. My contractions started getting very intense and about 3 minutes apart, so I made Jerod get to the hospital as quickly as possible! Luckily most of the traffic lights were in our favor.

By the time I got checked in I was 3 cm dilated and 90% effaced so they immediately got me into a birthing room. I spent time in the jacuzzi and tried to breathe through the contractions for about 3 hours and got to 5 cm dilated, but decided it was time for the epidural. I got it at 3 am and have been trying to sleep ever since. But I'm too excited to sleep! :)

We'll be delivering sometime this morning, so stay tuned for pictures of our little angel!

Hi everyone, it's Jill! Thanks to Erin for keeping this updated for us. We are still at home and the contractions aren't as regular as they were earlier today. We are going to get some rest and enjoy time at home. Hopefully things will begin progressing again soon!

Stay tuned...

Some excitement

This morning Jill's contractions seemed to be coming at a pretty regular pace and there were some other signs that things may be progressing. She called her doctor and headed to the hospital. As you might imagine the anticipation is unnerving...and I am not even the one having the baby!!

This trip to the hospital turned out to be a false alarm...for now at least. They have sent Jill home as there hasn't been much progress with dilation. She is reporting that she is having contractions every 5 minutes and they are getting stronger. Looks like they may be making a second trip to the hospital by tonight!!

Good luck Jill and Jerod!!

Anytime now!!

Hi everyone,
This is Erin. I will be updating the baby Verboort blog when the big day comes...which is just around the corner according to Jill's doctor appointment this morning!!

Jill's progression is still at 2 cm dilated but she is now 70% effaced. The head is also very engaged. The doctor said she would be very surprised if Jill makes it to her next appointment next Tuesday.

The good news is that Jill's schedule is free this next week so the baby's arrival would be wonderfully timed.

Keep up the bouncy ball Jill. Hurry up baby girl. We all want to meet you!!

Animal Cruelty

We decided to test out the carseat tonight...


And it works!! :) Poor kitty...

38 weeks!! Only 2 more to go (HOPEFULLY!!)

Today marks the beginning of our 38th week. It's amazing how fast 8 months went by, and how slow time seems to be going now that we are so close. We are just so excited to meet this little girl! Today Jerod and I got up early and went to Maggie's Bun's for breakfast. We are reading the labor and delivery parts of our books and preparing for labor. I'm sure that we won't remember a thing that we read when it comes time, but it is still fun to prepare together. We decided to drive out to the beach and take our current daughter (Brandy) for a day trip. The weather was supposed to be super nice at the beach, and we brought along a blanket to lay on the beach and continue our reading. The weather was a little bit overcast, but was still pretty warm. Brandy swam and played chase with her ball. She had a blast! We ran into Sam, Candy & Makenna Marshall and got to watch 2-yr old Makenna play in the water. It made us even more excited to have our little one here!

After laying on the beach for awhile we went up to have some lunch and visit Flamingo Jim's (we must visit Flamingo Jim's every time we are in Rockaway!). We took a bumpy back road on the way home to see if we could induce labor, but she seems pretty happy in there, so we'll just have to wait!

Now we're home in Forest Grove and getting ready to watch the Beavers play UNLV. What a great day!!

All our bags are packed!!

Still 3 more weeks 'til our due date, but our bags are packed and we're ready to go...just in case!!

I'm trying out this post using my blackberry because the hospital we are going to doesn't have wireless. So I'm hoping to be able to send updates (or rather have a friend send them) from my phone. Hopefully this works!!