Ellie Lynn decided to come a little early. I guess she really wanted her mom to be a mother on Mother's Day. She came 3 weeks early and is absolutely perfect.
Saturday morning I was up doing chores around the house while Roy was at work. I had been doing laundry, getting chap stick stains out of Roy's new golf shirts, and picking up all of the shower gifts I had received the night before. I had so much on my list of things to get done that day.
Around 9:45 I was just hanging up with my friend on the phone. I bent over to pick something up and pop. My water broke. I was a little startled because it was 3 weeks and 1 day before her due date. I called my mother in law who was a nurse to confirm I was not an old lady who just peed her pants... I then called Roy and text him. He has been checking his phone at work every 10 minutes just in case this moment happened. He called me back with in 3 minutes and left work without even telling his boss. He got home, walked the dogs and we left.
We got to the hospital in about 15 minutes. We walked into the labor and delivery portion of the hospital. There was no one there at the desk since it was a Saturday. There was a phone with a phone number for us to call. We called and told them our situation. Roy said they sounded like they didn't believe us. Once they finally came out to get us (10 minutes later) and I explained what happened and how much fluid had come out they took us right to a delivery room.
It was about 11:00 by the time I was all changed and hooked up to the monitors. I filled out lots of paperwork and then we just sat there. I apparently was having contractions because the monitor said I was. I couldn't really feel them. About 3 hours after laying there just chatting with Roy I started feeling the contractions, but they didn't hurt too bad. They checked me and I was only a 3. We decided Roy would go home and take care of the dogs, walk, feed, and water them. He also wanted to shower and change out of his work uniform since he had been at work since 4:30am.
While he was gone they started me on pitocin. This kicked in fast and I really started to feel my contractions. Unfortunately it didn't move me along very fast. Finally around 5:30 I was at a 4 and able to get my epidural. That went well. It took a little while for it to kick in on my right side, but after a little time I was loving life!!! Thank goodness for epidurals. I remember telling Roy I wanted to kiss whoever invented them.
Well for the next 6 hours I laid there in labor. I didn't get to a 10 until midnight. Then we started to push. After one set of pushes I thought I was not going to be able to do this. It made me so tired. I had been awake for almost 20 hours and was already exhausted. Luckily I discovered how much better it felt to push through the contractions rather than lay there. It was still an hour and a half of pushing before they gave me the "if you don't get her out soon we are going to have to do a c-section." talk. She had been in the birth canal for so long and her head was starting to swell. Lets just say that scared me enough that within 10 minutes they were calling the doctor and 5 minutes after the doctor came in she was out. I wish they would have scared me a little sooner.... hahaha
Well little Ellie was here. Roy said the first words out of my mouth were "wow, I just pushed a baby out of me!" She was perfect. She had 10 fingers and 10 toes. She was a little white but turned pink real fast. She had the cutest little cry. It sounded like a little hiccup at the end. It was so fun to see her dad hold her for the first time and just look at her. Then they handed her to me and I just stared at her, and she stared at me.
I feel very lucky that I had such an easy pregnancy and nothing horrible go wrong at birth. She is a very content baby. She doesn't cry much. She does sleep A LOT. This makes it hard for me to feed her because she won't focus long enough. Hopefully she grows out of that quick.
We have had family down from Utah and it was fun to see them and watch them meet their newest granddaughter. They have all left and now we are now spending some one on one time with each other.
Saturday morning I was up doing chores around the house while Roy was at work. I had been doing laundry, getting chap stick stains out of Roy's new golf shirts, and picking up all of the shower gifts I had received the night before. I had so much on my list of things to get done that day.
Around 9:45 I was just hanging up with my friend on the phone. I bent over to pick something up and pop. My water broke. I was a little startled because it was 3 weeks and 1 day before her due date. I called my mother in law who was a nurse to confirm I was not an old lady who just peed her pants... I then called Roy and text him. He has been checking his phone at work every 10 minutes just in case this moment happened. He called me back with in 3 minutes and left work without even telling his boss. He got home, walked the dogs and we left.
We got to the hospital in about 15 minutes. We walked into the labor and delivery portion of the hospital. There was no one there at the desk since it was a Saturday. There was a phone with a phone number for us to call. We called and told them our situation. Roy said they sounded like they didn't believe us. Once they finally came out to get us (10 minutes later) and I explained what happened and how much fluid had come out they took us right to a delivery room.
It was about 11:00 by the time I was all changed and hooked up to the monitors. I filled out lots of paperwork and then we just sat there. I apparently was having contractions because the monitor said I was. I couldn't really feel them. About 3 hours after laying there just chatting with Roy I started feeling the contractions, but they didn't hurt too bad. They checked me and I was only a 3. We decided Roy would go home and take care of the dogs, walk, feed, and water them. He also wanted to shower and change out of his work uniform since he had been at work since 4:30am.
While he was gone they started me on pitocin. This kicked in fast and I really started to feel my contractions. Unfortunately it didn't move me along very fast. Finally around 5:30 I was at a 4 and able to get my epidural. That went well. It took a little while for it to kick in on my right side, but after a little time I was loving life!!! Thank goodness for epidurals. I remember telling Roy I wanted to kiss whoever invented them.
Well for the next 6 hours I laid there in labor. I didn't get to a 10 until midnight. Then we started to push. After one set of pushes I thought I was not going to be able to do this. It made me so tired. I had been awake for almost 20 hours and was already exhausted. Luckily I discovered how much better it felt to push through the contractions rather than lay there. It was still an hour and a half of pushing before they gave me the "if you don't get her out soon we are going to have to do a c-section." talk. She had been in the birth canal for so long and her head was starting to swell. Lets just say that scared me enough that within 10 minutes they were calling the doctor and 5 minutes after the doctor came in she was out. I wish they would have scared me a little sooner.... hahaha
Well little Ellie was here. Roy said the first words out of my mouth were "wow, I just pushed a baby out of me!" She was perfect. She had 10 fingers and 10 toes. She was a little white but turned pink real fast. She had the cutest little cry. It sounded like a little hiccup at the end. It was so fun to see her dad hold her for the first time and just look at her. Then they handed her to me and I just stared at her, and she stared at me.
I feel very lucky that I had such an easy pregnancy and nothing horrible go wrong at birth. She is a very content baby. She doesn't cry much. She does sleep A LOT. This makes it hard for me to feed her because she won't focus long enough. Hopefully she grows out of that quick.
We have had family down from Utah and it was fun to see them and watch them meet their newest granddaughter. They have all left and now we are now spending some one on one time with each other.
4 comments:
Angie! Yay!!! I have been waiting for the whole story! I am so happy that for the most part things went smooth! I am glad that you family was able to come and visit! Ellie is adorable with TONS of hair!! Yay for little girls! Keep up with the feeding, it is hard when they keep falling asleep, but soon they will learn to keep going!
Congrats AGAIN!! :) Oh, and YAY for epidurals!!!
She's so cute. I love that last pic. Glad that everything went well. I hope we have a girl. haha. that sucks you were in labor for so long. Good luck with the feeding!
I'm so happy for you. I found myself just staring at my baby girl too when she came out. I also cried a lot out of joy. I was so emotional that first month. Virginia slept a lot too and it also got in the way with feeding. But it gets so much easier. Congrats again!!!
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