Lucy Mae made her grand entrance
Thursday August 7th 2014 at 10:42 pm
weighing in at 8 lbs 3 oz and 21 inches long.
It all started that morning when I went to my 39 week Dr appointment. Luckily Dillon was able to take a few hours off that morning to go with me. We knew it was a slight possibility that we would be induced so we took the basics with us, just in case, since we were delivering in IF (45 mins from home) but we didn't expect it to be a reality. At my appointment I was 90% effaced and at 1 cm. Baby girl's heartrate was slightly on the low side, still in normal range (range is from 160-120) but at the very lowest at 120something. Doctor told us he would induce if we wanted but ultimately it was up to us. We debated back and forth and didn't want to force her to come if she wasn't ready and if I wasn't ready, but Dr Leavitt told us he wouldn't give it as an option if he didn't think we were ready. He left us to think about it and when he came back we asked him if her heartrate was a concern and he said no, but that we might as well just get her out. He told us he would be out of town the next day so if I went on my own he wouldn't be there to delivery but if we got induced and it went into the next day he just wouldn't leave and go out of town (what a sweet doctor :) ). So....after going back and forth we decided just to go for it. He sent us right over to the hospital and I was hooked up to Pitocin by 10:10am! It was really happening. I couldn't believe it!
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| Last belly pic, 39 weeks |
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| Going for a walk to kill some time and to keep things going |
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| Soon to be mom and dad just hanging out |
My body was responding really well to the Pit and I was having good, regular contractions. At one point I was having too many so they turned the Pit down. Dr Leavitt said he would be there at noon to break my water.......at about 2:30pm he still wasn't there so the nurse checked me and I was at 3 cm. She said that it was late enough at that point that he probably wouldn't be there until after office hours. Sure enough right around 5:30pm he came in, broke my water, and checked me....still at 3 cm. He had the nurse turn the pit back up and said he would be back at 9pm to check me again. He said that most women progress about 1 cm an hour so he was guessing delivery to be sometime in the early morning hours. Only about 10 mins after he broke my water the ease I had experienced of laboring all day was over and things got real intense real fast! I was trying to be brave and trying to be strong but about an hour later I couldn't handle it anymore and asked for the epidural. At 6:45pm the epidural was in place and quickly started working, thankfully, and I was able to get some rest.
Around 9pm things started feeling different and I could feel pressure that I hadn't felt before. I was still, obviously, numb but I could still feel this weird pressure and Dillon went to tell the nurse. She said that it was probably a good sign and Dr would be there soon to check me. The pressure kept getting stronger and more frequent and things just felt...different. Finally at 9:30pm I convinced the nurse to check me and I was at a good 8cm. She told me she would call Dr Leavitt and let him know. He still wasn't there by 10:15 and I knew things were getting real and I told Dillon that I felt like if I pushed, she'd be out. The nurse came in and I again got her to check me and low and behold I was at 10cm and ready! She said she would go call the Dr and tell him to come faster and would come right back and help me through a few practice pushes. If they went well she would have me stop and wait for Dr, otherwise we would practice til he got there. She came back, a contraction hit, I pushed, the nurse told me good job and then told me to stop and Dillon said he could see our baby girl :) Just then Dr Leavitt walked in and quickly walked back out saying he'd go get dressed. Moments later he came back in and a contraction hit and the pushing began. Dr could tell there was going to be tearing so he did a quick episiotomy. After only 3 contractions of pushing with the Dr baby girl was here!!
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| The Dr and nurses kept commenting on how huge and healthy her cord was! |
She did have the cord around her neck and was born with her hand in a fist up by her face so despite the episiotomy I still had 3rd degree tearing. I didn't even care tho, my baby girl was here and I got to love and cuddle on her while Dr stitched me up!!
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| Hanging out with daddy for the first time! |
And we did of course get to spend some time together as just our little family of three :)
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| Daddy on diaper duty |
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| First bath :) |
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| Eating our special mommy/daddy "Stork Dinner" from the hospital, which actually wasn't too bad. |
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| Lucy girl just slept and hung out and let mommy and daddy eat |
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| Love these two! |
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| Love my baby girl! |
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| First family picture |
Sat evening, after making us stay all day to monitor little Lucy's
feedings (neither her or I was a natural at the whole breastfeeding
thing) we were FINALLY able to take our baby girl home!
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| Dressed all cute but oh so tired and ready to go home |
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| So tiny! |
As if I haven't said it enough....we are SO IN LOVE with our Lucy girl and are extremely grateful for a relatively quick labor and easy delivery and that we are now home with a (mostly) happy and healthy baby girl!!
