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Kendall & Kate are off to the hospital, Kate woke up at 7:40 because her water broke. She was not having many contractions when she arrived at the hospital, We all started a pool to see who could guess all of the important things like time of birth, weight, length, hair color and if he wold look more like Mom or Dad. The best prediction was Makall's she guessed he wold be 9 lbs. and 12 inches long (you could tell she had no idea how long a full term baby should be). Jordan had the nicest prediction of what the delivery time would be, he guessed 4 pm. The Doctor came in around 10:30 he checked her and she was dilated to 1 cm & 50% effaced. At that time Kendall and I changed our guess of birth time and put it back by 6 or so hours. Kate then went for a walk, got back tot he room and rested for 2 hrs, at the end of that 2 hours she was tot he point she could not stand the pain any more. We were hoping she had changed a little the nurse said she could give her some fentanyl because she was sure it was to soon to get an epidural. We were all so surprised when she checked her and she was dilated to 8 cm. No wonder she was in pain, that was when Kate went from the top of the family whipm list to the top of the toughest girl list. They called for the Dr to come from the OR to do the epidural. He did not get there in time, shortly after that she had to push, and it was all over from there, the Dr barely made it there in time. She was an amazing girl, you would have thought she had gone to weeks of natural childbirth classes. She never screamed yelled or swore at her husband and told him she hated him.

Blake Kendall Christensen was born at 3:40 p.m. after only a few pushes, once his head was born without even another push our he came. The Dr almost dropped him he came so fast.

Because he had such a fast labor his head was round and perfect, no cone head for Blake. (I'm sure Kendall was a little sad because he wanted some black mail pictures for when he was older!)

He weighted 7 lbs- 15 ounces, was 21 inches long and had dark hair. We know he doesn't look much like Kate when she was born so I guess he looks like Kendall. We are trying to find some of his baby pictures.