Last Sunday was our baby shower at church. This pregnancy I always took a picture of my belly on even numbered weeks. Because we were dressed nice for our shower I'm so glad I asked Dan to take my photo here at 35 weeks....it ended up being the last picture of me pregnant as we went into labor three days later!
Last Wednesay I went to work and for the past couple of days I'd noticed that something was "different". I was worried that I might be leaking amniotic fluid so I had it checked out after the baby shower over the weekend....nothing? By Wednesday it was still bothering me so I cancelled my students at school and ran up to the clinic. I FULLY expected them to check me and think I was nuts for being so paranoid, but instead I got, "YOU are having a BABY TODAY"! I just about fell off the exam table. I called Dan and he frantically tied up loose ends at church and ran home to pack our bags since we were NOT prepared. I called my mom as I was literally parking my car at he hospital. I was going to be induced! Everything went REALLY fast. My mom and my grandma had extremely fast labors so you can imagine my anxiety about what to expect. The dr. broke my water at 3:40 pm and I did start contracting on my own, but they weren't too bad. By the time Dan got there I was contracting hard enough that I couldn't talk to him through the contractions. It seemed like minutes and my pain level was a 9 and the contractions were 30 seconds apart. They had to slow down my pitocin just so I could sit still for the epidural. The dr. came in (he was SO awesome) and said she'd most likely be there by the wee hours of the morning. He checked me then and his eyes got huge......I had dialated from a 3 to a 9 in an hour. We were up next. Can I just say that epidurals are amazing! Women who go through labor without them deserve to have countries named after them because there is just no way! Anyway, since I wasn't in pain we didn't push right away when I got to a 10 so she would have been born even sooner, but at 9:48 pm on Oct. 27th little Svea Grace was welcomed into the world. It was the most amazing experience I have ever been through. I would do it again in a heartbeat (even the 2 hours of REALLY bad pain before my epi) to experience our little girl being born! Dan was amazingly supportive, calm, and motivating and in a total of 6 hours I went from driving myself to the hospital to snuggling our little girl on my chest. God has blessed us with Svea......we are enjoying every second. Above is a photo from Monday night. Who says babies don't smile!
Last Sunday was our baby shower at church. This pregnancy I always took a picture of my belly on even numbered weeks. Because we were dressed nice for our shower I'm so glad I asked Dan to take my photo here at 35 weeks....it ended up being the last picture of me pregnant as we went into labor three days later!
Last Wednesay I went to work and for the past couple of days I'd noticed that something was "different". I was worried that I might be leaking amniotic fluid so I had it checked out after the baby shower over the weekend....nothing? By Wednesday it was still bothering me so I cancelled my students at school and ran up to the clinic. I FULLY expected them to check me and think I was nuts for being so paranoid, but instead I got, "YOU are having a BABY TODAY"! I just about fell off the exam table. I called Dan and he frantically tied up loose ends at church and ran home to pack our bags since we were NOT prepared. I called my mom as I was literally parking my car at he hospital. I was going to be induced! Everything went REALLY fast. My mom and my grandma had extremely fast labors so you can imagine my anxiety about what to expect. The dr. broke my water at 3:40 pm and I did start contracting on my own, but they weren't too bad. By the time Dan got there I was contracting hard enough that I couldn't talk to him through the contractions. It seemed like minutes and my pain level was a 9 and the contractions were 30 seconds apart. They had to slow down my pitocin just so I could sit still for the epidural. The dr. came in (he was SO awesome) and said she'd most likely be there by the wee hours of the morning. He checked me then and his eyes got huge......I had dialated from a 3 to a 9 in an hour. We were up next. Can I just say that epidurals are amazing! Women who go through labor without them deserve to have countries named after them because there is just no way! Anyway, since I wasn't in pain we didn't push right away when I got to a 10 so she would have been born even sooner, but at 9:48 pm on Oct. 27th little Svea Grace was welcomed into the world. It was the most amazing experience I have ever been through. I would do it again in a heartbeat (even the 2 hours of REALLY bad pain before my epi) to experience our little girl being born! Dan was amazingly supportive, calm, and motivating and in a total of 6 hours I went from driving myself to the hospital to snuggling our little girl on my chest. God has blessed us with Svea......we are enjoying every second. Above is a photo from Monday night. Who says babies don't smile!
2 comments:
So happy that your delivery was quick and everyone is doing so well. Birth truly is a miracle, isn't it? No words can describe it. I love all the updates. Keep 'em coming!!! Much love to you guys!!
Thanks Jess!!! We are so excited for you guys too! Yes, I can't believe that I actually wish I could relive the experience again when I was so scared of birth in the first place. We will keep the updates coming:)
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