Should have done this a while ago.

This blog should have been done on Feb 20th. The day that I was released from the hospital.

But here it goes for the Birth Blog.

I went into the hospital to be induced on Wednesday, Feb 17th. The nurse takes me and my group of folks into one of the delivery rooms. They give me my gowns and tell me to get undressed and onto the bed. Once that was done a nurse came in and asked how far was I dilated at my last appointment. I let her know that my Dr. told me that I was at 2 cm. They then tell me that they are going to have to move me to one of the smaller rooms, because there could be people that are further along than me that may come in. So, we pack up and move to the smaller room. So...Brian, my mom and sister are in there with me in this tiny room. Maybe 20 minutes later my Dr. comes in and says that he is going to let me go home, because they really don't see a reason to induce me and I am not dilating. He brought another Dr in with him to let me know this information. But this OB says that she is going to check my cervix before letting me go home. When she checks she says "OH WOW" you are at 4 cm. Then she has my Dr recheck me and he says "Oh yeah, you are at about 4 or 4.5 cm" So with that great news...they set me up to go back to the big room. But, they tell me that I needed to walk around the ward for about an hour. We did that and while on our walk we run into Leslie. So, we go back to the room and hang out. At this point I am at 5cm. After that it was just slow slow slow.

Around 2 pm, I was so ready for an epidural, I was so worried because the Dr told me that if I was in active labor at 5cm, I would not be able to have one and I was at 6 at the point where I wanted the epidural, but since it wasn't active labor. I was ok with getting the epidural and oh how much I LOVED IT! I didn't reach 10 until about 10. It was showtime then. I was pushing and pushing for almost 2 hours and Rian just was not coming. On top of that she was face up so they said that was going to make labor a little harder. After not being able to push her out and I was just tired and aggravated. The Dr's left the room and I told Brian, Mom and Leslie that I just wanted them to give me a C=Section. The Dr's came back and said that they were going to do a C-Section. I told them that at that point that's what I wanted too. My only concern was the recovery, I really didn't want to have a c-section, but I didn't want anything to happen to my little one. So, I would rather have our little girl safe and ok.

They take me into the OR and get started, I wasn't in there that long. I layed there waiting and waiting and then I started to worry when I didn't hear anything. All of a sudden I hear the Dr's call Brian over to where they were and then I heard the sounds of our sweet little baby. She was screaming her lungs off. So...Instead of her being born on Wednesday Feb 17th, she was born on Thursday, Feb 18th @ 1:59am

I am so Thankful to Dr. Duda! She was an AMAZING OB!

I have to say that I am so in Love with this little girl and these past 16 days have been the most awesome days ever. I am tired and I feel so worn out, but it is so worth it to look at our little girl and she how beautiful she is.