Baby is here!

On Sunday night I had trouble sleeping, only got about 2 hours. I got up at 4 am and did my exercise tape then shovelled massive amounts of snow off the driveway. The rest of the day I just layed around and watched TV. Matt went to watch Thanksgiving Day football with friends. I told him to have fun and drink some beer, there was nothing happening here. He texted me at 6:45 that night to double check. I replied that nothing would happen and pressed send. I still had the phone in my hand when I was setting it down, and my water broke. All over the carpet. I waddled to the bathroom with a towel between my legs and called him back.

We had his brother drive us since Matt had had a couple beers. Got to the hospital after leaking all over the house trying to do last minute things. I was 75% and 2cm dialated. They were really busy so observed me for an hour, if no change I was going home or getting inducing drugs. I was 4 cm on next change so they got me into my birthing room. Around 11 I was 4-5 and still feeling good. Yes I felt the contractions but I was still laughing. I decided to do the epidural then so if needed pitocin ( which I did) I wasn't in pain. The epidural was hard to get in, took 6 locals and 4 sticks before she found a spot. Apparently I have a very boney spine. It hurt but was worth it. I went from 5-8 in no time after the pitocin with no pain but then something went wrong with my epidural and every time I did the booster my back spasmed in pain. So I chose not to booster anymore because I needed my back for pushing. I went from 8 to 10 by 7 a.m. I laboured till 8 then they came in and had me on my side. When I felt the pressure of contractions I was pushing on my side, on my own to move her down because she was at -1 station. That worked so at 8:30 I started pushing with help (one leg up on my side). We had some progress so at 9 a.m. we moved to my back with me holding my legs up with help. I had many students in there watching (one passed out). At 9:15 the doc entered. It was nice, they did not tell me when to push, I told them when I felt the contraction and the urge. So if I wanted to skip a contraction to rest I could. They only kept encouraging when I was pushing to make the best of it.

Nevaeh Lacey was born at 9:29 a.m. on October 14th at (get this) 8 pounds 11 ounces. She is a wonderful baby! Barely fusses and loves her mommy and daddy. We are breast feeding but due to some latching problems, I have to supplement due to really sore nipples. She was sucking and my milk came in but she sucks so hard she actually sucked some skin off. I am giving my nipples a break (and partaking in a vodka) while dh gives her some formula.

We are so in love. To quote my fav show, "First we had each other, then we had you. Now we have everything." Sex and the City