Thursday, January 14, 2010

the story of evie jane's entrance into the world

Ok, I thought I would write about Evelyn's birth before I forget the details. So here is the story...
I was a week and a few days past due, so we scheduled an induction for Sunday night (January 10th). All day Sunday I was having contractions. Once I started timing them they were about 5 minutes apart. So we got all our stuff packed up and headed in to the hospital for our induction.
We got there around 6:30 and I got hooked up to the iv for the antibiotics for being group b strep +. After the first round of antibiotics was finished I needed to get up and walk as the contractions were getting more and more uncomfortable. So since I was only dialated to 3 cm, we walked the halls. As we walked the contractions continued to get stronger and started to really hurt.
Back at our room I tried sitting on the birthing ball, not very helpful at that point. Since I thought I had the whole night ahead of me I decided to go for a little nubaine. All it did was make me woozy for a few minutes. Shortly after that things got intense.
My water broke at 10:30 pm. When the nurse checked me she asked if Iwas ready to have a baby. I think I said "are you serious?". She was.
The nurses and resident all came in and they paged the on call dr (he didn't make it on time).
I asked if it was too late for an epidural. It was. So I started pushing. I had great nurses and a wonderful husband to help guide me through, and keep me calm. Evie Jane was born at 10:40.
So there is the story of my 2nd little girl's birth. It was fast and recovery has been easy. Now we just need to get Evie to sleep at night and be awake during the day...

3 comments:

Katie said...

Way to go!! Short labors are every woman's dream. I'm already jealous! :)

Christina said...

Congratulations Chrissie! She's beautiful and I'm so glad you had such a great labor and delivery! Praise God!

KeriAnn said...

Nice work! I echo Katie's comment.