Introducing Sadie Grace

Sadie Grace
Born: October 7, 2008 at 10:27pm
Weight: 8 pounds 7 ounces
Height: 21 inches
APGAR: 9/9

Here's a little sampling of our newest addition... click on the pictures to enlarge.



We just love her and can't get enough of her!

Info on our name selection:

Sadie is a “classic” name that, while currently gaining in popularity (so as to avoid people having never heard of it), was virtually non-existent in the 1950s/1960s/1970s (see chart below; y-axis is "usage of Sadie per million babies").



Hence, our little Sadie will grow up without an older generation of people with the same name. At the same time, because Sadie is not historically a more popular name, this will hopefully mean that the only association many people have with “Sadie” is that of our daughter (i.e., no preconceived notions).

Grace is a family name on both sides—coming from Brett’s great grandmother, Grace Flake and Kris’ grandmother Vilma Altagracia (translated from Spanish: “high grace”). We hope she inherits their best qualities!

Quick Recap of Sadie Grace's entrance: Our Baby Story (lasting 15 hours, 42 minutes)

• 6:45 am: Kris’ water breaks— she’s not sure if it is actually the water breaking especially because the Dr had said the evening before that she wasn’t even close to being ready as the baby was high and she had not started dilating. Dr says: “Now don’t you go having your water break on me in the next few days… your body isn’t ready yet. I’ll see you next Monday”
• 9:00 am: K&B catch a cab and head to the hospital
• 9:37 am: K&B and OB resident start the process with misoprostol
• In the meantime… K&B wait for things to kick in
• 4:45 pm: Resident checks Kris: 1 cm dilated, 50% effaced
• 6:45 pm: Dr comes, checks Kris: 2 cm dilated, 80% effaced; Kris decides to get an epidural after having pretty strong contractions every 2-3 minutes since 4:00 pm
• 7:02 pm: Epidural goes in, ahhh; Kris starts receiving pitocin, Dr says that if all goes well we can expect a 7:00 am birth the next morning
• 8:00 pm: Kris turns on Biggest Loser; despite the epidural, still feeling a significant amount of “pressure” and some pain
• 8:30 pm: Resident comes to check Kris: 4-5 cm dilated, by now the pressure is getting stronger
• 9:00 pm: Brett turns on the Presidential debate, pressure intensifies (for both Kris and the candidates)
• 9:25 pm: Anesthesiologist comes to help with the pain since the epidural wasn’t fully effective (only the left side of her body was feeling more or less numb)
• 9:40 pm: Kris turns off the debate because of the pain
• 10:00 pm: Dr comes back to check Kris: 7-8 cm dilated
• 10:05 pm: Anesthesiologist comes in again to try to help with the pain
• 10:20 pm: Nurse comes in because the monitor is having a hard time picking up the baby’s heart rate
• 10:22 pm: Nurse realizes the baby’s heart rate is dropping significantly, calls in the Dr by saying only one word: “come”
• 10:24 pm: Dr rushes in yelling that he needs X and Y, asking for a resident, pediatrician and the anesthesiologist to come right away and, quickly removing the bottom part of the bed, says “start pushing”
• 10:27 pm: Sadie Grace is born after only 3 pushes