So we finally have our little girl that we had been waiting forever to be born (yes it was only 4 days past her due date but we were so eager four days seemed so long!) She was born on 9/15/2008 at 7:30 on the dot. She weighed 8.4 and was 20 inches long.
A long story made short about the labor and delivery. Sunday night my water broke at 11:45, we went into the hospital, we checked in at 1ish and sat in triage for 3 hours. They checked me and I hadn't even started contractions, I was only 1 cm. Once we were placed in a labor and delivery room they started the pitocin. I eventually started getting contractions but they didn't seem bad. By 6 am I was not very comfortable and the pitocin was making me not feel so good. I debated the thought of an epidural but I didn't want one if I was close to 10cm, I felt one more contraction and decided I didn't want to feel the next. I had the epidural put in and they checked to see how far along I was, I was only 2.5 almost 3 cm. I am greatful I got the epidural. Well the next day we just hung out and let to pitocin do its job... although we didn't do much for the day I wasn't bored, I think seth was though. For one reason or another I just wanted the room to be quiet, which is not a common thing for me. I had to have oxygen for part of the day, so it made it hard to talk. By 5:30 pm it was time to push... and there I was with Seth to my left and Marla to my right. I pushed and between each push I slept. I have 30 second power naps. Then at 7:30 she was born sunny side up with a cone shaped head.
She was 8 lbs 4 oz and 20 inches long.
We were suppose to leave the hospital on Wednesday after her cultures came back (I has group b strep and they did not get enough antibiotics into my system before she was born, so she had an IV in the whole time we were in the hospital which was hard to see on my baby). After her tests came back and she was good, they discharged her. Then they took my vitals one more time and were going to discharge me... BUT my blood pressure jumped so they didn't feel comfortable me leaving, so we stayed another night. It was nice that my baby and hubby could be with me.
The next day (Thursday) we got the okay to go at 10 but the doctor wanted to see us, so we had to wait for her to come to the room... 4 hours later she finally came and stayed for 2 minutes just to tell me to make an appt on monday and that we could go home.
Now that we are home we have been having lots of fun! We love our little girl we are so happy she is home with us. The first night it still seemed alittle different and not like reality but she is doing great!
