Introducing Madison Ann!

She finally decided to make her appearance! As you know we had an induction scheduled for Monday morning but she decided to show her face a little earlier than that. A little before 4am Saturday morning I woke up with a pretty painful contraction. I watched the clock and they were about 10 minutes apart so I took advantage of the breaks in between to get a little more sleep. By 7am they were about 6 minutes apart and I had been bleeding quite a bit with them. With this being my first I was clueless and didn't know if that was normal or not so I took a shower and called the doctor. He was already at the hospital so he told me to come on in. I finished getting ready and got to the hospital at about 8:30am. He checked me and I was fully effaced and 4cm. Since I was already scheduled for Monday, he didn't want to send me home. So they admitted me and he said we were going to have a baby. I hadn't progressed anymore by noon so he broke my water which caused the contrax to come on fast and furious. I was handling them okay, I thought, even though I was in more pain than I could ever have imagined. When they came in to check me at 3pm and I was still only 4cm it really disheartened me, though. I decided shortly after that I was going to give in and get the epidural. By the time I got it at 3:30pm I was up to 5cm so I had finally started moving again. After the epi I actually started enjoying the whole birth process. At 6pm I was 6cm and they decided to give me a little pitocin to get things moving quicker. By 7pm I was 8cm and somewhere between 9 and 9:30pm I was up to 9.5cm. At 10:30pm I finally got to start pushing. She got down to where I could see the top of her head in the mirror after about an hour but she just stopped at that point. Apparently she wasn't going to go any further on her own. I pushed and pushed to try to get her to come further without anything else but it just wasn't happening. So around 1am Sunday morning they pulled out the vacuum suction and got her out in two more pushes. I had to have an episiotomy and still got a bit of a tear. I ended up with a third degree laceration that is incredibly uncomfortable still 4 days later but it was all worth it! She is an absolute doll! I couldn't ask for a better baby. Madison Ann 1:07am 7lbs 12oz 20in

Waiting to Meet Maddie

Well after all the “signs” I have been having the past few days I can’t believe I’m still here at home. Last night I thought for sure that it was happening when I awoke around 2 with a hard contraction. I got up and walked through the house a bit waiting for the next one. The next one hit about 12 minutes later. I thought that it must be happening but with them so far apart still I wanted to try to get some sleep. I knew that if they got stronger and closer together I wouldn’t be able to sleep so I wasn’t concerned about that. They continued most of the night at 10-15 minutes apart, some much harder than others. Maybe if I had gotten up and walked around more it would have happened. I just thought that if it was going to happen it would happen regardless, so I better get some rest while I can. As you can see it didn’t happen. Don’t get me wrong I love being able to have Madison with me 24/7. I know that I will never be able to better care of her anytime like I can now. I just want to see what she looks like and hold her in my arms. I want everyone else who has been waiting for her to get to feel her kick her feet out all over the place. I know that no one has ever been pregnant forever and that I still technically have one day until the ultrasound due date so I just need to be patient and she will come when she is ready. Well Madison, whenever you are ready you have a lot of anxious people out here who can’t wait to meet you!