Wyatt Mat Evatt has arrived!!

Let me start of by saying that pictures will soon be following...I am currently typing at 3:17am Chile time in our hospital room and find it impossible to sleep with everyone coming in along with the excitement of a new baby.
Wyatt was born yesterday, Sept 21, at 7:19pm at 8lb 11 oz and 21.9 inches long. Yeah...he pretty much came out looking like he wanted a steak for dinner instead of boring breast milk.
Let me just give you a quick rundown of how things went yesterday....
Our admission time for the hospital was 1pm..and since I was so eager to get on with things, we ended up getting here about 12:30. At about 2:30, they gave me Pitocin and I was still planning on sticking to my original plan of no anesthesia. It was a piece of cake..until the medicine kicked in and the contractions started coming hard and closer together fast. I was dilating rapidly and made it to 5cm before I waved the white flag and gave in to the epidural. Umm....definitely the way to go and for those of you out there who did it sans drugs...I have to hand it to you.
My midwife, Loreto, was great. She speaks about as much English as we speak Spanish..which is still relatively little....but we were all able to communicate with each other. (In case anyone needs it in the future...empuje=push).
I don't know if it was from exhaustion or what..but after that, things started to get lost in translation. The baby nurse would come in and explain what was going on and what we were supposed to do..but we couldn't conjugate any more nouns or verbs and the poor nurse would have to repeat herself or do the good old standby of charades, which includes pointing and some acting skills.
We'll be here for 3 nights and 4 days...which I at first was thinking would be too long...but as I'm laying here and having anything I want at a button away....I'm thinking that things aren't so bad. They have people stay longer to be able to consult them on breastfeeding and make sure that you are somewhat prepared to handle the kid on your own. Not a bad concept.
Another thing different here is that when you tell people the name of your baby...and it's not the typical Chilean name...(Claudio, Cristian, Mateo)...it's almost as if people can't understand that a gringa from the US would want a name that is familiar in the US. Going against the grain really isn't a concept here...everyone tries to fit in a certain mold. And..everyone has 4 names here...you receive names from your mother and father...So, currently, Wyatt's name is Wyatt Mat Evatt Evatt. We'll be changing that sometime this week.
Anyways...Matt and I are super excited about our new little one. Matt is going to be an excellent dad and I can't wait going through parenthood with him. We laugh alot which is great.
I'll post pictures in the next day or so....the baby is getting restless, so I suspect I will be needing to feed soon.

Wish us luck!
Love-
Kipley