Thursday the 17th, we were able to finish the last few things on my list of cleaning the house, I had one last blanket to finish, and the carseat my parents ordered for me arrived in the mail. The van was cleaned and the car seats were rearranged to accomidate #4.
On Friday the 18th during a routine Dr appt the Dr informed me that he would be seeing me back around the hospital within 24hrs, I was dialated to 4cm, 70%effaced, and she was supper low. I kinda laughed and held my breath, not really trusting him. I called our normal sitters mom and asked if I could put her on call to watch the kids for the weekend and had another friend lined up for early this week.
Sure enough right befor bed I started to contract a few times, and informed Jake. We went straight to sleep in hopes of catching a few hours of zzz's. I was awoken around midnight with infrequent contrations, but by 3am they were strong enough and regular enough to call Cathy Heft, our neighbour and sitter.
I was admitted around 5am with contractions every 2-3minutes. Sometime around 7am everything stopped. I was dialated to 7cm, our little miss had stage frieght! Finally sometime around noon they put me on Pitocin and broke my water. Within 30minutes I was back into strong active labor. Shortly after 1pm I asked for drugs, they barely took effect by the time the Dr walked in and said lets get this show on the road.
During a "test push" she crowned and it wasn't five minutes later she was here.
24hours after she was born we were discharged and on our way home. I am greatful for my own bed and the distraction of my kids- there is only so much hospital entertainment I can handle.
My last pregnancy photo. Liza took it before she went to bed. I weighed this much when I became pregnant with my other three, makes for a very different pregnancy!
9 comments:
She's adorable, Chrissy!! congrats! Man, if your baby was that big 3 weeks early, i'm glad you didn't go full term! Congrats again!
Love, Samm
My son was also born on the 19th- A VERY good day!
Good luck with the adjustment of four kids!
Congrats..she is beautiful.
Congratulations! Your little girl is beautiful!
Congrats!! She is a cutie, and I love her name. She looks like a Roecker! I wish we were closer so I could help out. Anyway, give Micheal some loves for me!
What a sweet baby! I'm referring to the cute little one in the pink cap, not the one sleeping on the hospital bed :) Congrats mama
congratulations chrissy!!!
Oh my she is so cute! I can't wait to meet her in person! We love you!
Wow, congratulations! I want to know how your pregnancy was different than the others.
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