Lincoln Tanner Ashby is finally here

I don't really have time to tell the whole story right now.....but I wanted to say: he's here! Lincoln was born November 18th at 11:15pm. He was 21.5 inches and 7 lbs 13oz. It was a VERY fast labor. (I guess it started at 9:30pm, but we weren't sure it was the real thing until 10:15pm) Our midwife was actually delivering a baby up in Park City (her second one for the day) and she came as fast as she could, but she did not make it before the baby was born. She had a back up midwife that we had contacted who was closer, but I still was not even dilated enough for a hospital to admit me! (As part of helping induce labor, I had something inserted to measure the dilation and try to help it along.....since I was more than a week past the due date.) When my water broke we thought forget about dilation, he must be almost here. So, we immediately called our back up midwife who was all ready and waiting for us to call so she could walk out the door. The only problem is that our address is a little confusing to find....1150 South is a street that is disconnected, so you can be on one end of it and not be able to get to my house. Anyway, after the baby was born she was a few blocks away and we were able to give her more directions to get here. I guess I couldn't help but tell a little bit of the story. I'm just so grateful for my beautiful, healthy baby and that everything with the birth could go so smoothly and as planned with no medical complications (except for not having a medical professional there.) And mostly I'm grateful for my amazing husband who remained so calm, supportive and helpful during this whole process of helping me through labor and actually delivering our baby. We are so truly blessed!