born May 10, 2010 at 5:13pm
7lbs 5oz 19" long
Amelia was scheduled to be delivered due to my diabetes. She was induced at 38 weeks and 5 days.
Joe likes to tell people that labor was easy; what does he know!! I prefer to say that it was relatively uneventful. I went into the hospital at about 10:30 in the morning on Monday. Went through about an hour and a half of paper work then a bit of time fighting with the nurse over the birthing plan (she insisted that it was important to break my water prior to an epidural and I refused, again, what does she know?). Finally around noon-ish I got an epidural which created some trouble because it dropped my blood pressure to sickening levels several times. While going through the ups and downs caused by my epidural I remember thinking several times, I think I'm going to die and if I have another baby I will NOT get another epidural. After the problem was finally fixed the resident broke my water and contractions began. About 45 minutes later I was having lots of contractions but they weren't consistent - some were 2 minutes apart some were 8 minutes apart. So, the nurse administered enough Pitocin to normalize my contractions. Just before I was going to start pushing my bolus dose of my epidural wore off and the real pain of delivering a baby began to set in - this is when I realized that I will get another epidural if I have another baby. Thank goodness I could push the button to deliver a bit more pain medicine before I began pushing. At about 5pm my doctor arrived and I pushed several times. Amelia's head poked through and my contraction ended at which point everyone except me was ready to take a break - her head was half out for goodness sakes. So, I pushed her head the rest of the way out to ease the pressure sans a contraction. After the head the body and placenta basically birthed themselves. I walked away with only a small tear - one which I attribute to the beautiful round shape of Amelia's head.
My hospital stay was much better than I was expecting. Fortunately, the nursing staff at Salt Lake Regional is far superior now to my previous stay there. After leaving the hospital, however, I was unprepared for the pain of recovery. I never really felt any pain recovering from birthing Henry so I was shocked at the amount of pain I felt for several days. Mind you, I'm sure my pain was certainly not more than any other new mother experiences, I was just unprepared because of my previous experience.
Today Amelia weighs 6lbs 15oz. At 95% of her birth weight she is nearly perfect. She eats like a champion which is a wonderful blessing. She will probably outweigh Henry any day now, since he still never really eats.
10 comments:
Congrats you guys. She is very cute. I'm glad everything went well.
Congrats. You should come to the douglas ward so we can see her in person.
Yay!! Congrats!!! I'm in the worst place possible--with three weeks left I want nothing more than to not be pregnant anymore, but I also know what's coming and don't really want to have to deliver the little guy... *sigh* But seeing your new little one does make me more excited :) Congrats, again!!! Glad it went well!
Congrats you guys! She's so cute! Good luck adjusting to two. I hope you recover quickly and that Henry adjusts well!
Congratulations! Here's to a speady recovery. Oh, and you're going to have to change the name of your blog now.
yay! i'm so happy for you that she's here and that everything went well.
Congrats! She is so beautiful. What a perfect little family.
Congratulations! She's gorgeous! Amelia and Ruth are both Parkinson names! (Ruth is my middle name). So I guess I'm saying, good choices!
so excited for you both, look forward to seeing more pictures. goodluck in Florida. Are you anywhere near dinsney world?!!
I love that picture! Congrats, we definitely need more beautiful children in the world. I am so happy for you two, and glad that your hospital experience was better than expected.
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