Sorry it took so long!
Olivia Rose arrived on Monday Sept 21 at 3:34pm. 8lbs 2oz, 20in.
- 5:45am- Arrived at the hospital
- 7:30am- Finally got started with antibiotics for GBS, then pitocin- I was 5cm and 60% so they didn't want to break my water until I had the antibiotics in for 4hrs.
- 7:30-12:15- Contractions went from every 4 mins to every 2 mins. I was still laughing and joking
- 12:15- OB broke my water (7cm) and contractions were immediately more intense every 1.5-2mins
- 12:45- decided I better get the epi because they were back-archingly uncomfortable and I knew I couldn't bend my legs to get her out. I tried my music and different positions...no such luck.
- 1:15- Epi Man came to my rescue. He was a million times better than my first one with Connor.
- 2:15- Nurse checked and said I was Complete! I thought she was joking and she laughed at me :) OB wanted me to labor down for an hour since O's head wasn't all the way down yet.
- 2:30-3:00- Nap, yes I said nap...gotta love the epi
- 3:15- Checked and her head was right there. Gave a practice push and the nurse said it wouldn't take much
- 3:25ish- OB came in and they got everything set up.
- 3:30- I pushed through 1 contraction and then she told me to push again before the next contraction if I could, so I did. She gave me a 10 sec break after the second set and had me keep going because there were decelerations in her heart rate. So I kept pushing. About 2 contrations and 12 pushes total and my little girl was out!
She came out with both hands by her face, so I ended up tearing on the last push. Cord was around her neck and she was pretty purple, but she did let out a good cry. Apgars were 8 & 9. They put her right on my belly for a minute and then had to get her some oxygen and suck some fluid out.
I wanted out of the hospital on Tuesday, but because I was GBS+ they wanted us to stay till Wed to make sure Olivia was fine. We got out about 10am on Wed.
Things have been pretty good. 1st 2 nights home were long nights. She cluster fed from 12:30-5:30am the first night and then 1-7:30am the second night. I got about 2 hrs of sleep both nights and only 30 min nap both days, but felt surprisingly good. My mom and grandma were here from Sunday night - Sat morning and my dad got here on Thursday night. Grandma was a great help and very supportive, mom was a pain in my butt telling me what to do and arguing with me about everything.
Connor is in love with her and has been a great big brother. He likes to hold her and hasn't driven his cars on her face yet :) We had some acting out from him, but I think most of that was because we had company and he was running the show while we were in the hospital.
Here is a link to a bunch of pics. We did her studio pics on Wed afternoon, and it was just as horrible of an experience as Connor's, but we did it anyway.
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z294/denyse79/Olivia/
Thanks for looking! And reading my LONG story :) It's amazing how easily she just fit right into our family like she's always been here. We are very Blessed.
