She's finally here! Adie was born at 7:48pm on May 30th, weighing in at 8 lbs 3 oz, and 21 1/2 inches long. It was a VERY long day/night. She's beautiful!
So now for all the details. We were admitted Thursday night because my water broke, after waiting a few hours to see if contractions would start on their own, we decided it would be best to be induced with pictocin. So after 1 hour, 4 nurses, and 6 pokes, they were finally able to get an iv started on me and started the meds. Contractions started slow and manageable, but progressed pretty quickly and got very hard, very fast. It was a long night Thursday and into Friday. I asked for nubain to help with the contraction pain, and it helped, for a while. Finally Friday afternoon, after laboring for over 15 hours with strong contractions, I was so uncomfortable, okay so miserable that I told Dean I wanted the epidural. It was wonderful, even though I went in wanting to do it without any pain meds at all. At this point I was dilated to 2 cm. They kept me on the pictocin after the epi, hoping it would help things progress. A few hours later, I was only dilated at 3 cm, and at this point my water had ruptured 24 hours previous. It was decided that we should do a c-section. At this point I just wanted it to be over, and they don't let you continue labor if your water has been ruptured much past 24 hours. There's more risk of infection. So I went in around 7:30 and less than 20 minutes later our little girl was born. We were all so tired after the whole thing. Addison spent the night in our room, but her blood test came back high for jaundice, so this morning she was moved to the NICU. She is doing better, and hopefully we will both be home in a couple days. I've been taking it slow, the incision is pretty painful when I move around. Thank you Kara for posting and keeping everyone updated. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers. I'll post more pictures later.
