Well...since I am sitting here in this hospital bed, thought I would write down my birth story and get some pictures up.
I was sitting at the kitchen table on the night of the 7th talking to my aunt online. At 5:20pm, I got this HUGE contraction. Didn't think anything about it as that's what I have been doing...lol. Three minutes later...another. Three minutes later....another. So...decided to call DH and see where he was. He didn't get off of work until 6pm and he works an hour away. So told him to hussle up and called over to his grandparents' to ask if they would come and watch the boys that I was in a lot of pain and this was it!
Dh's grandparents got to the house around 6:45pm. While waiting for them to get there (contractions every three mins) I decide my house is a disaster and I need to clean. So I proceed to "clean and breathe." I changed both my boys into pajamas and got them ready...it was a comic site for anyone to see I am sure. Dh's grandpa drove me down to the gas station (shaving 15 mins off our commute to the hospital.) Dh picked me up from the gas station and to the hospital we went.
We arrived at 8pm, checked in and got situated. I was checked and still at 5cms. They told me to walk around for about 30 mins and if I progressed, I could stay. (They were wary about me being 37 weeks still.) So we walked around, I was having some good contractions. Came back, was checked...6cms!!! YEAH!!!!! I was admitted, given my iv for fluids and ready to endure a few more hours of labor!!!
At 11pm, I was given my epidural. Well, the first epidural. My contractions were every two mins and it then took the antheshiologist 45 minutes to give me my epidural. It was in...my water was broken and we were on our way. Thirty minutes later, I was having contractions every minute and in A LOT of pain! My catheter was leaking and my epidural was not working. So, now had to get ANOTHER epidural with worse contractions than the first! Needless to say, we were pretty settled in by 2am.
I was doing alright...started to fall asleep around 2:30am as dh kept picking retarded stuff on tv. 2:40 my nurse came in and checked me....9 cms and 90%. By the time, my midwife got her scrubs on we were complete and ready to go. We all guessed she would be about 7 1/2 lbs...since she was still three weeks early... I pushed for about 6 minutes, and Adriana came at 2:50am. She was grunting since she was only ready to go for about two minutes before we had her....little purple.
They got her all warmed up and crying. And weighed her...9 lbs 2 ozs! she was gigantic!!! She was 21 inches long. We were all very surprised and my midwife agreed that she is glad she came now instead of in a week. Her apgars were 8/9 and I only got to hold her for a few mins before she got taken to the nursery.
She has been in the nursery since yesterday because her blood sugar is low and they have been trying to get it up. They decided early this morning she needed to have an IV for the next 24 hours to help get it to where it needs to be. So, here I sit. I walk down to the nursery to visit her every few hours and to nurse her. But we are supposed to go home tomorrow...cross fingers her blood sugar stays up!!!
Here are a few pics of her. As she hasn't been with us too often. Hoping to get more here later. Sorry they are so big...photobucket wasnt liking me.
Here she is
Not happy
Our little monster
After I explained to dh that it was 3am and he needed to stop taking pictures of me.
So I took one of him
In the nursery
Just chilling
The only pic of her not in the nursery