I am into brevity, however. So here are the major events:
- Contractions began on Tuesday December 7th, sometime in the middle of the night. All I can remember is that I woke up with them, not really sure what they were. As the day progressed, and as they got more intense, I finally realized what was going on.
- I went to my regularly scheduled doctor's appointment at 3. The doctor told me I was 95% effaced and dilated to a 2. This was progress from the previous week when I hadn't been dilated at all. The doctor also told me to go ahead and schedule an appointment for the following week. I couldn't imagine going another week with contractions, so I left the appointment a little discouraged.
- Over the next several hours my contractions became closer together and more painful. At 10:30 PM we drove to the hospital.
- I was admitted at 11:30 PM...dilated to a 4. This was right where I wanted to be before I received my epidural, so I was pretty proud of myself that I had labored all the way to a 4 at home.
- Epidural at midnight. This is about the time I fell in love with a man named Mark, who was my nurse anesthetist.
- I progressed throughout the night, and around 7:30 in the morning was dilated to a 10.
- I didn't begin pushing until about 10:30 or 11. Long story...my doc was doing a c-section, they wanted the baby's head to come down naturally, she needed to turn...yadda yadda yadda. It felt like we waited forever to start pushing.
- Had some issues with the epidural. Finally got them resolved.
- At 1:00 pm my doctor came in and asked if I wanted some help getting my baby here. I said yes. By 1:19 Addison made her entrance into the world.
It was the most beautiful, scary, exciting, and happy moment of my life and a moment I hope I never forget!
2 comments:
Seriously the epidural is the greatest I am not sure how or why women do it without. You need to put some more pictures up of your cute little girl!!
Congrats! I am so glad that you are all healthy and there were no real complications.
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