It's a girl!

Cadence Rae Schuerman was born June 5, 2010 at 3:23 pm. She weighed 7 lbs., 1 oz. and measured 20 inches! I was totally convinced we were having a boy...Danny thought it was a girl all along. :) She is the prettiest baby we've ever seen (of course we're biased). She is very calm and hardly cries (we're sure that will change in a couple of weeks). She might end up being a stubborn little girl, though. After waiting until 41 weeks to make her debut, she made me push for over 3 hours with a total of 20 hours of labor! She was worth every minute of it!

I had a doctor's appointment on Friday and we ended up scheduling an induction for Saturday morning at 5:00 am. Cadence decided that she finally wanted to meet us around 7:00 pm. and my contractions started to progress. I thought I might try to sleep through them, but that wasn't happening. The contractions became very strong and very regular. We left to go to the hospital at 1:00 in the morning and ended up having a baby without the scheduled induction! Danny was an awesome birthing coach (even without classes - mom gave us a private class at home since she's a labor and delivery RN) and my mom and Danny's mom were there to help as well. The nursing staff was great and my doctor was calm, cool, and collected.

We can't wait to start our new life with our new, precious baby!