On Monday 8-22-11 we welcomed our baby girl, Lily Evelyn, into the world at 8:19 am. She weighed 7 lbs 11 oz. She is 20 1/2 inches long. She is absolutely beautiful and we are in love! Here is her birth story:
Sunday night Ryan came home from his "boys night" and had woke me up around 11:30 pm. When he woke me up I could tell I was not feeling well. I didn't feel like I was having contractions or in labor. I felt sick, nauseated and like someone had kicked me in the gut and the pain was not going away. Something just didn't feel right so we called the clinic and they told us to call 911 because I had had some spotting, felt light headed, etc. I told them we would just go into the hospital and have things checked out (I didn't see the need to call 911...still glad I made that choice!).
We got to the hospital around 12:00-12:30 am and no one wanted to "check" me because of my low placenta. So needless to say I was in excruciating pain for about 4 hours while they ran labs, tests and finally did an ultra sound. Eventually the MD gave the okay to have me checked and they found out I was dilated to 5. Needless to say I was going to be staying the night...or morning at this point and having a baby! Since I was only to a 5 and already had been in a lot of pain for hours I had an epidural. It definitely helped take the edge off. I could still feel a lot of pressure in my stomach, but it was definitely better. I was able to rest in between really bad contractions. Around 6:30 am they broke my water. They didn't want me to start pushing until 9:00 am but at 8:00 I told the nurse I was feeling a lot of pressure. She checked me and said the baby was coming. The MD hardly had time to get his gloves on. Three pushes later I was holding onto my baby. However, in the rush at the end no one had told us if it was a boy or a girl. I was asking "what is it"? Ryan finally checked and said "it's a girl"! We were so excited to have our sweet little girl! We thought she was beautiful and that she looked a lot like her older brother when he was born...in a girly way of course :) She is such a good baby....I am aware she is only two days old but still :-) She has been an awesome nurser. I do not take this for granted because Logan was not quite so easy!
We are taking Lily home tomorrow. I'm actually typing this all up while she is taking a little snooze. Daddy and Logan are back at home tonight. We are excited to all be together at home tomorrow for the first time! And now for the best part, here are some pictures of newest addition!
