"D" Day

Finally finding a second to update the blog before Abrie decides to wake up and want to eat again! So, on Monday, I went in for my check-up pre induction that was scheduled for Tuesday, and found out that I was still only dilated to a "1" and "thick", so they wanted me to go to the hospital that night to start the processes of thinning out my cervix.

Here's my last belly shot before going to the hospital. Once I got checked into the hospital they started me on Cytotec to try and get my contractions stronger and more regular in the hopes of thinning my cervix. Even with a sleeping pill on board and getting a couple shots of pain medicine in the night, I still only slept about 30 minutes. The good news was that when I checked into the hospital I had dilated to a "3" on my own and had effaced to 75%!

At 7:30 the next morning, my doctor came in and checked me, and I was still the same (which kinda stunk after having a sleepless, painful night), but he went ahead and broke my water and they started me on Pitocin. Holy crap did the contractions kick in more fast and furious after he broke my water. I swear it took an hour to get the anesthetist down there to get my epidural in, but it probably only took like 15-20 minutes. I don't know how women go through labor medication free! I must be a huge wimp!! Having my epidural was heaven sent, and by 10 am I was fully dilated and ready to push. I pushed for an hour, and our sweet baby Abrie was born at 11:09 am weighing 6 lbs 13 oz and measuring 20 inches long...smaller than we thought she was going to be! I had a little meconium in my fluid, so respiratory was there to check her out, but she ended up not having any problems! The kind of comical relief of the whole experience was that apparently most of my water was up behind Abrie, so that when she came out there was an EXPLOSION of fluid! If the doctor hadn't decided to gown up from head to toe, he would have been covered head to toe with fluid!

Later, my sister Katie and her husband brought Landen up to meet his baby sister, and she gave him a gift (pictured below). He loves his train and has already worn out the batteries! He's been so cute with her so far, except for a little incident this morning when he went and grabbed some bath toys and started squirting her with some water. I guess she needed to wake up!

This is Landen getting his gift from Abrie at the hospital.


Our first little family photo, yes I'm as exhausted as I look!

Me and my little girl, she just loves to snuggle like this!

Let the wrapping around Daddy's finger begin ;)