We dropped Hudson off at Nikkala's and headed to the hospital bright and early Friday morning to have our baby. Once admitted, they proceeded to induce me. It was an uneventful morning, just laying around and waiting for the medication to take effect. By noon I was beginning to make progress dialating, so they ruptured my membrane and started pit. I kept holding out on getting my epidural until I was a 6 and my contractions were becoming severely uncomfortable. We anticipated a few more hours of laboring until I would be fully dialated, so I decided to get an epidural. The anesthesiologist administered my epidural immediately and was just cleaning up when the nurse checked me again. I was fully dialated and ready to push. (This all happened within about a half hour.) We had to wait for the nurses to finish the final preparations before I could begin pushing. Three pushes later and our beautiful baby girl was here at 3:44 pm. Dalanie weighed in at 6 pounds 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Everything happened so quickly that my epidural never had time to take effect. It was nice to be able to get up and use the bathroom without having to wait for my legs to wake up. I was numb during delivery though from medication they administer to fill the gap until the epidural begins working. That was a good thing.All in all, it went very well and I am feeling great. Maybe too good in fact, my mom keeps threatening me.
We feel very blessed to have our baby here, safe and sound. Birth is such a miracle.
6 comments:
She is beautiful! I am glad that everything went so well and you are feeling so good!!
Oh so cute!! Job well done on your beautiful little girl...how fun! Congratulations!!!
She is so precious! And her hair is amazing! Congratulations to all of you!
Wow, her dark hair is amazing! How exciting to have another girl in the house! Congrats!
Yay, Hudson looks like he likes her a little bit.
She's so pretty! New babies are so precious! We're so happy for you and Brent!
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