A Blog....finally!

I was having trouble getting all of my pictures onto my computer, and also finding the time to blog...who knew motherhood was so much work?? Just kidding....i knew it wasn't going to be easy but i love it!  I love my cute little girl so much!  So far she has actually been a really good baby.  She doesn't cry too much....just sometimes when she gets her diaper changed and always when she gets a bath.  Other than that she has been pretty good.  She already sleeps up to four hour stretches at night.....I bet she would go longer but i wake her up to feed her.  Anyway....here is the story of Eisley's delivery:

There i was miserable at one week over my due date.  I was scheduled to get induced on Thursday night the twelfth.  The plan was to stay overnight to get this pill (citotek?)put inside me to help my cervix soften and dilate, and then in the morning they would start the pitocin.  The hospital was supposed to call me by three to let me know what time to come in on Thursday.  We did not hear from the hospital so we gave them a call.  They told us that they did not have any open rooms, but that some should be opening up and to call back at 5:00.  (Which is the wrong thing to tell an anxious pregnant lady who is a week overdue who was told not to eat anything after 2:00pm..... to wait even longer!).  We called back at five and were told to call back again at 7:30.....(by this time i was on the verge of tears)....We called back at 7:30.......and guess what?  Yep, call back at 9:00 cuz they were unusually busy (I was cursing that i am the unluckiest person in the world!!!)  So finally we call back at 9:00 and they tell us to come in at 11:00pm....(we were so tired!)

So we finally check into the hospital and they start my IV and give me the pill and we were off to sleep.  A few hours later the nurse woke me to give me another pill.  I went back to sleep and then started to get really bad cramps so i was given a shot of demerol...(yes in my bum).  After that my doctor arrived at about 8 am.  He went to check me, and then said "ok you are going to feel some fluid pouring out now"......i said "what! did you just break my water?"  He forgot to mention that.  Anyway....at that point i was only dilated to about a 1 1/2.  

Then the nightmare began.......My contractions came on fast and intense 1 min apart.  At first i was breathing good, and was trying to manage the pain, but after about 15 minutes i told Chris to get the anesthesiologist in there quick because i wanted the epidural!!!(and i wanted it NOW)  So Chris gets the nurse and she lets us know that the anesthesiologist was called into an emergency procedure so it would be a little while.  Well let me tell you....it seemed like an eternity!  I felt like i was dying, it all seems like a really bad dream now, I was seriously partly in shock and was half in/half out of reality.  (Chris can tell you some funny stories about how i was acting during this time)..I was given some pain medicine, but it didn't even make a slight bit of difference. So finally after an hour and a half of the contractions from hell, the anesthesiologist gave me the blessed epidural.  He saved me!  I didn't even care that a giant needle was being jabbed into my spine.  

From that point on things went 100 percent better.  I was eating ice chips and barely noticing my contractions.  The nurse checked to see how i was progressing around 10:00 and i was dilated now to a three.  She then checked me again just a few hours later, around 1:00...the look on her face was troubling....She looked at me and said "you are not going to believe this, but you are dilated to a ten!"  She double checked and sure enough, much to everyones surprise it was time for me to start pushing.  The nurse said for your first child it could take anywhere from one to three hours....and it only took me forty minutes!  In fact we had to stop and wait for the doctor because i had pushed for twenty minutes and the baby was getting close...so when my doctor showed up i only pushed for twenty more minutes and Eisley was born!  It was amazing!  I think i was rewarded with a fast delivery since i went a week over...i had it coming.

Anyway, there is the whole story.  Now we are just enjoying every minute with our sweet little girl!  Here are some hospital pictures, and some cute ones that we have taken since....enjoy!