Us waiting for Baby to come!
Still waiting... and I was only allowed to eat those darn ice chips. But Thomas brushed my hair for me so I'd look pretty for the picture!
And here she is! Happy Mama!
And a very happy and proud Daddy!Well I guess I should fill in some of the details. So Thursday night I started having contractions about 10 minutes apart, pretty regularly. This lasted all night and all day Friday (meaning no sleep for me! It's kind of like hitting the snooze button all night long.) and eventually they started getting closer together and stronger and stronger. Friday night we had planned to do a little birthday celebration and go out to some campgrounds and make a fire and have dutch oven peach cobbler! But I was having pretty bad contractions, so we decided just to do it at home instead. So Michael and Qait and Ender came over and shared in our celebration. I was not really able to enjoy the yummy cobbler- because I was quite nauseated by the pain, but I did get one bite at least. And it was a great bite! Anyway so Michael and Qait hung out with us, and somewhere around midnight that night I decided I'd had enough and I was ready to go to the hospital. I figured- hey- I've been in labor for almost 30 hours here, I'm tired and ready to get this done with!
So by this point Thomas had fallen asleep on the floor in the living room. I was very grateful that Michael and Qait were still there, as my attempts to wake him proved... fruitless. We finally persuaded Thomas that there really WAS a good reason for him to get up off the floor and go to the hospital with his pregnant wife who was in labor with his first child and that he needed to do so in a timely manner. Once we got him up, Michael and Qait helped us get our things together and Michael drove us to the hospital. We got there and got paperwork filled out (Thomas forged my name on some of them because I was in some serious pain by this point) and they took me back to check me out. Turns out I was only dilated to 1.5cm... so the nurse told me (her name was Nancy) that I'd either have to go home for a while or do laps around the building until the contractions were twice as strong. I started crying because I already felt like I'd had enough and I did NOT want to go home until they were twice as bad! So she went off to call the doctor and make sure that's really what he wanted me to do and I laid there crying and Thomas muttered something like "I told you so". I think he was still miffed about having to wake up and get up off the floor.
So Nurse Nancy came back and she had great news- the doctor (Dr. Barton was the one on call) said that I was already overdue, and to let me stay and put me on pain medication! I was so happy to hear that! So they took me back and gave me a room and started me on some pain medication... and it made me sleepy and I slept for the first time really in 2 days... that was amazing.
After a few hours' nap, they came in and checked me again and I was dilated to a 4 and they said- "we can give you an epidural now, if you want one". I said "Oh yeah that sounds great!!!" Thomas said something like- "are you sure you really want one?" since we had talked about keeping our options open, and the nurse looked at my face and said- "Ok we'll get you an epidural!" About 3:30am Saturday morning I had my epidural, and it was the greatest thing ever. I couldn't feel a thing. Initially I had been really nervous about actually GETTING the epidural. I was worried that I would have a contraction at the time they told me "DON'T MOVE" and involuntarily jerk and end up with something horrible. But everything went really smoothly and it was just fine. I loved my epidural. It was great. It was amazing. I still have a numb spot on my right kneecap from it. I treasure that numb spot- I didn't feel a thing!
So 10 hours later, around noon on Saturday they checked me and said- ok, you're ready to start pushing! And I was like- wow, ok! So we pushed for 2 hours and then the doctor came in and said, "Let's get this baby out!" First they tried using the vaccum, but that didn't work. Then they had to use the forceps, which eventually worked, but they did have to give me an episiotomy. But after 20 minutes or so, baby Audrey was born! And she was beautiful, even though she had little forcep bruises on the sides of her face and a vaccum hickey on her head. And her head was all lopsided and squished. But all I could do was cry because we did it! And she was my little baby girl and she was healthy and wonderful that was all that mattered to me.
So by this point Thomas had fallen asleep on the floor in the living room. I was very grateful that Michael and Qait were still there, as my attempts to wake him proved... fruitless. We finally persuaded Thomas that there really WAS a good reason for him to get up off the floor and go to the hospital with his pregnant wife who was in labor with his first child and that he needed to do so in a timely manner. Once we got him up, Michael and Qait helped us get our things together and Michael drove us to the hospital. We got there and got paperwork filled out (Thomas forged my name on some of them because I was in some serious pain by this point) and they took me back to check me out. Turns out I was only dilated to 1.5cm... so the nurse told me (her name was Nancy) that I'd either have to go home for a while or do laps around the building until the contractions were twice as strong. I started crying because I already felt like I'd had enough and I did NOT want to go home until they were twice as bad! So she went off to call the doctor and make sure that's really what he wanted me to do and I laid there crying and Thomas muttered something like "I told you so". I think he was still miffed about having to wake up and get up off the floor.
So Nurse Nancy came back and she had great news- the doctor (Dr. Barton was the one on call) said that I was already overdue, and to let me stay and put me on pain medication! I was so happy to hear that! So they took me back and gave me a room and started me on some pain medication... and it made me sleepy and I slept for the first time really in 2 days... that was amazing.
After a few hours' nap, they came in and checked me again and I was dilated to a 4 and they said- "we can give you an epidural now, if you want one". I said "Oh yeah that sounds great!!!" Thomas said something like- "are you sure you really want one?" since we had talked about keeping our options open, and the nurse looked at my face and said- "Ok we'll get you an epidural!" About 3:30am Saturday morning I had my epidural, and it was the greatest thing ever. I couldn't feel a thing. Initially I had been really nervous about actually GETTING the epidural. I was worried that I would have a contraction at the time they told me "DON'T MOVE" and involuntarily jerk and end up with something horrible. But everything went really smoothly and it was just fine. I loved my epidural. It was great. It was amazing. I still have a numb spot on my right kneecap from it. I treasure that numb spot- I didn't feel a thing!
So 10 hours later, around noon on Saturday they checked me and said- ok, you're ready to start pushing! And I was like- wow, ok! So we pushed for 2 hours and then the doctor came in and said, "Let's get this baby out!" First they tried using the vaccum, but that didn't work. Then they had to use the forceps, which eventually worked, but they did have to give me an episiotomy. But after 20 minutes or so, baby Audrey was born! And she was beautiful, even though she had little forcep bruises on the sides of her face and a vaccum hickey on her head. And her head was all lopsided and squished. But all I could do was cry because we did it! And she was my little baby girl and she was healthy and wonderful that was all that mattered to me.
It looks like her ears aren't even folded! how cute! Sean's were and one of them is, I'm afraid, permanently flat in the back and slightly pointed. She has a beautiful head. I know that sounds odd, but the shape is very nice.
ReplyDeleteShe is so cute congratulations. That last pic looks profecional. very cute!
ReplyDeleteI love that I finally get to hear the whole story and I'm SO glad they didn't send you home Friday night! Congrats, she is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteShe's darling, Megan! How nice of you to let Thomas go home with you, too!
ReplyDeleteCongrats, you two. She's precious!
ReplyDeleteCongrats Megan! Thanks for posting so all of us down here can see your sweet little girl!
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