I have been procrastinating writing about Hadley's birth story. I tell myself every week that I'm going to write about it this week and it never happens! Mostly because I am so busy with her! I have a sleeping hubby and baby right now and all I want to do is climb in bed and join them but I am MAKING myself do this finally! This might be really boring but I want a record of her birth story written somewhere so I figured I would share :)
Since the end of November I had been pretty miserable having contractions. My doctor told me that there was no way I would make it to my due date. I stopped working a few weeks before I had planned because I was so miserable with contractions. It's like my body wanted to go into labor but didn't quite know how. Anyways, my due date (December 22, 2013) CAME and WENT!!! I had hoped and hoped that she would be here for Christmas. Christmas morning I was having contractions that were 5-7 minutes apart so we decided to go into the hospital. When we got there the nurse checked me and I was dilated to a 4. She hooked me up to the monitors and my contractions were 7 minutes apart. She had me walk around the halls for an hour to see if that would speed things up. When she checked everything again I was still the same so they gave me some pain meds (I was so miserable) and sent me home! If you ever want to ruin someones Christmas send someone home from the hospital that is 3 days over her due date! I was so mad, especially because we missed all the Christmas festivities and because they told me I would probably be back that night!
That night I didn't sleep at all because the contractions picked back up. Finally around 7 in the morning we decided to head back to the hospital because they were 3 minutes apart. When we got there the nurse checked me and I was 4 cm dilated still! I thought they were going to send me home again but when she checked me again in a half hour I was a 4.5. They decided to keep me, give me the epidural and break my water to see if that would speed things up. I got the epidural shortly after (which is not bad at all) and a little while later the on call doctor broke my water. (My doctor was nowhere to be found). They checked me shortly after (probably about 2 or 3 in the afternoon) and I was only a 5!!! They decided to put me on the pitocin because they said the epidural had slowed my contractions down. After they put me on the pitocin my epidural started wearing off. I kept pressing the button for more and the anesthesiologist even came in and gave me more but it wasn't working. The contractions were really strong and painful at this point. She checked me again around 6:30 and I was a 10. They called the doctor and she told me to start pushing with the nurse. I pushed for about an hour and at 7:53pm on December 26, 2013 my sweet baby girl was born. I can't even explain the feeling I felt when they put her on my chest. I am crying just thinking about it. She was 9 pounds 15 ounces and 22.5 inches long! They took her away from me pretty quick because her and I both had fevers. They had to take her to the special care nursery to get iv antibiotics and I was bleeding a lot from her being so big so they had to stitch me back up. This was the worst part for me. My epidural did not work while I delivered her or while they stitched me back up and I was in a lot of pain at this point. After an hour of stitching I was finally able to hold and feed my baby girl.
The days in the hospital were rough. I could barely get up to go to the bathroom. Garrett was so awesome through everything. He would go into the nursery with her to get her antibiotics, change all of her diapers, help me feed her and stay up with her at night. She swallowed a lot of amniotic fluid so she kept choking and they had to keep suctioning it out of her stomach. We were super paranoid at night. Finally that Saturday her labs were finally normal and they let us go home! I was so happy to get out of that hospital! We went home and started our new life with her! She is so sweet and we couldn't ask for a better baby!
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