Prudence Emmeline Robern Is Here

Prudence Emmeline Robern was born on Saturday, April 4th, 2009 at 9:45pm.

She weighed 9 pounds 8 ounces and measured 21 1/2″ tip to stern. Her apgars (1-9 score of healthiness) were 8 immediately after birth and 9 a little while later. We are very happy and have been slowly recovering from the whole process the last few days.

Delivery did not go as planned — little Prudence decided that, while other babies come out anterior and facing forward, she wanted to do it posterior and facing backwards. As a consequence, she got stuck in Mom’s pelvic bone. After five days of stop-and-go labor, we concluded that the baby was not coming out without a caesarean section. Fifteen minutes of major abdominal surgery later, Prudence was in the world and Meg had stitches and staples. Despite all that, the new Mommy seems to be recovering well, and the baby has been declared very healthy many times over by different pediatricians. It wasn’t the way we wanted to do things, but given the circumstances, we are quite happy with what we got!

And, of course, pictures: