It felt like this pregnancy was never going to end this last month, but alas, it finally has! It got to the point where the doctor told me every week, "Ok, we'll probably see you in the hospital at some point this week!" My response every week was, "Yeahhh... I'll see you next week for my appointment." I was doing everything I could to get baby out but nothing was working. I was walking up and down the road like a mad woman, doing squats every time I stood up, walking up and down the stairs a million times a day, running in the pool, husband and wife time ;).... everything, but nothing was working!
July 31st was my moms birthday and I kept joking that the baby would come on her birthday because when she was pregnant with my brother she did not want to share her day... instead she forced him to wait until August 1st to be born, lol. Well, on July 31st (Sunday) I had a horrible stomach ache in the morning but just figured it was the big breakfast I ate. We had a dinner for my mom that night; while we were there I was getting what felt like gas pains. We left my parents around 8-8:30 and by 9 I was having pretty bad pains. I thought it was nothing until the pains made me start sweating everything they came. I told Josh and his reaction was to make me start walking the stairs, lol. The contractions weren't enough proof for him, he had to make sure I was really in labor. By the time we left for the hospital at 10:30, I was having contractions every 7 minutes. We got to the hospital by 11:30 and my contractions were about every 5 minutes apart. They kept me hooked up to monitors until about 2:30 before they even admitted me to the hospital. My midwife got to the hospital around 5, I believe, and that's when she broke my water. My contractions before then had been bad but managable. Once she broke me water, that was a different story. Within minutes I felt like I had been literally ran over by a semi. They gave me some medicine that they said would take the edge off... I don't know what edge they were talking about because it certainly didn't do anything for me! I was in the worst pain of my life when finally I said I wanted an epidural. My message to all of those out there that are waiting to give birth, don't be wonder woman, get the dang thing! Within minutes I felt like a million bucks. I was able to sleep finally, after being up all night. By the time I woke up I was about 8 cm, I rested for a little longer then I started feeling some pressure and the midwife told me it was time to push! 50 minutes later beautiful little Madelyn Noelle was born.
Life with baby has definitely taken some time to adjust to. We are slowly getting the hang of things here... I finally feel like I can touch her without breaking her. She had her 1 week check up yesterday, she is already past her birth weight! She was 6 pounds 3 oz and 20 inches long at birth. When we left the hospital she was down to 5 pounds 13 oz... yesterday she was 6 pounds 8 oz! She's a little porker! The doctor said she looks great and we have nothing to worry about as of now :)
That's all for now, I hope to be able to update often but we will see how that goes.
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