ok Annie...I'm finally getting to my blog so that you can be updated. You and 2 others may be the only ones who check this on a regular basis! :)
Left off Feb 13th. I was pregnant. Today, Mar 13th. I am not. :)
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| My due date 2/27/13 |
Miss
Lauren Mary graced us with her presence on February 28th at 3:51pm. 7lbs 3oz 19-3/4"
Here's her story: After a couple days of ups and downs-will I be induced? will I go on my own? The girls disappointed faces every morning that they still saw me at home, expecting me to be gone in the morning having the baby they so eagerly wanted to meet. We finally got the go ahead on that Thursday morning. I was scheduled to go at 6:30am but was called off and that someone would call me with a plan later in the morning. I wasn't expecting a call back at 7:20 but was excited that they did and wanted me to come in. :) So Brian and I got the kids ready for school and was out the door at 7:40. I got to the hospital around 8:20 and in my room around 8:30. They didn't start the Potosin until around 9:40 or so. My doctor came around 10:30? and broke my water and checked in with how I was doing. Contractions were pretty minor at that time but were coming every 3-4 minutes. I was enjoying this time. But by 1pm the contractions were harder and I was getting more uncomfortable. Back up just a bit..The nurses said I had great veins but failed 2 times to get my IV in. (the first of many pokes) So at 1pm I had the nurse order me the epidural. She started me on saline. Contractions were getting harder and I actually had to start doing the in-2-3 out 2-3 breathing. Finally the anesthesiologist came and failed 2 times to get it in. At this point I was pretty uncomfortable and was freezing/shaking. My nurse and Brian were awesome though! So that was probably around 2:30-2:45. The epidural ended up only working on my left leg. :( I was feeling the contractions and pelvic pressure and praying that the medicine would find my right side and area down below. No such luck. By 3pm, my nurse called my doctor (he was at a conference) and informed him I was having a lot of pressure and felt like I wanted to push. The only thing that silly epidural did was get me to point of pushing in a short amount of time. Dr. Campbell arrived & checked me. Dilated to 8-9 but fully effaced. He had me push thru some contractions-not the kind to get the baby out but get her further down. He and a nurse noticed that she wasn't coming down very good and figured that she was hung up on something. Like the cord was either around her arm or leg. Finally it came to the real pushing. I think I pushed thru 3 contractions and on the last one my doctor told me to listen to him very carefully and stop pushing when he told me. I'm wondering why at this point....I want her out! Well, I didn't know about the cord thing at the time. So got her head out (and felt everything) he had me stop and monkied around down there for a bit then had me push again, this time she came out and had the cord wrapped around her leg and arm and it had started to tie in a knot. No wonder this felt more painful that the others! Thankfully, she was good, had great color, beautiful dark hair, just perfect. I was so thankful to be done. I honestly didn't know if I could go thru with it & was hoping that it wouldn't end in a emergency c-section. I was overwhelmed at this point & so overjoyed. The thought that I had just had my 5th child didn't bother me anymore. The jokes, the comments, the teasing about having so many kids didn't matter. I felt so blessed to be chosen to be the mom of 5 healthy, beautiful daughters. And to have a husband who felt the same as me is priceless.
