My baby story isn't too exciting, although a memory that I'll always have. We had been in the process since late December of finishing our basement, and earlier that week, everything in our basement had been wrapped up and it was time to do our part. We opted to do all the finishing work ourselves, meaning caulking and filling baseboard nails, doing all the painting, and getting the carpet installed. We decided that day to get to work on it, and spent most of the day in the basement caulking baseboards. Around 8pm that night I had a moment where I thought that maybe my water broke, although it wasn't the splash down like everyone says it is so I disregarded it. Matt and I were going to watch Breaking Dawn (!!!) that night, so we sat down to watch the movie at around 8:30. Within 10 minutes of sitting down I had my first contraction. I think I finally told Matt I was having contractions around 9 pm after I had a couple more. We finished the movie and decided to go pack a bag in case this was the real thing and I called my cousin to let her know that this might be it - she was going to come over and watch the 2 year old while we went to the hospital.
I downloaded an app on the iPod to start keeping track of contractions. The evening progressed and this is what I did until 1 am:
My contraction history is below :
StartTime
|
EndTime
|
Duration
(mm:ss) |
Freq.
(mm:ss) |
Intensity
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:17 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:18 PM |
00:42
|
00:00
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:19 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:20 PM |
00:35
|
02:00
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:22 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:23 PM |
00:56
|
02:50
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:26 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:27 PM |
01:03
|
03:48
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:29 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:30 PM |
00:44
|
03:13
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:31 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:32 PM |
01:00
|
02:14
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:37 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:38 PM |
00:58
|
05:22
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:38 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:39 PM |
00:35
|
01:34
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:40 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:40 PM |
00:36
|
01:12
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:42 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:42 PM |
00:40
|
02:02
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:43 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:44 PM |
00:26
|
01:52
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:45 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:46 PM |
00:32
|
01:32
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:47 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:48 PM |
00:42
|
01:50
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:49 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:49 PM |
00:30
|
01:41
|
-
|
Feb 11, 2012
11:55 PM |
Feb 11, 2012
11:57 PM |
01:13
|
06:53
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:01 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:02 AM |
01:05
|
05:53
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:06 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:06 AM |
00:50
|
04:11
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:09 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:10 AM |
01:03
|
03:39
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:14 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:15 AM |
01:04
|
04:22
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:16 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:17 AM |
00:54
|
02:29
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:19 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:20 AM |
01:00
|
02:39
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:23 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:25 AM |
01:19
|
04:33
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:28 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:29 AM |
00:51
|
04:41
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:30 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:30 AM |
00:35
|
01:51
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:33 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:34 AM |
01:03
|
03:26
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:38 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:39 AM |
01:00
|
04:38
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:40 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:40 AM |
00:36
|
01:37
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:44 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:45 AM |
01:13
|
04:36
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:49 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:50 AM |
01:00
|
04:54
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:53 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:54 AM |
01:00
|
03:30
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:54 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:55 AM |
00:42
|
01:32
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
12:56 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
12:57 AM |
00:53
|
01:35
|
-
|
Feb 12, 2012
1:02 AM |
Feb 12, 2012
1:03 AM |
01:08
|
06:37
|
-
|
Exciting yes?
At 1 am I decided to get up and call the doctor. She called me back and assessed the situation and we decided that it was time to go to the hospital. We called my cousin and she came over and headed to Boulder.
When we got into Boulder around 2, I measured 4 cm (yay!), and they asked me what my pain was at, I decided that I wanted to keep going but around 3:00 I decided that I had had enough and wanted the epidural. Around 3:30 I had the epidural, was feeling better and was at 7 cm, and the doctor broke my water which put me to 8 cm. And then the waiting game started. I was 9 cm around 4:30, but it took FOREVER to get to 10. Around 7:00 there was a shift change, and I got a new nurse. Around 8:15-8:30 she decided that I should go ahead and push a little to take the edge off some of the contractions I was having. And that did the trick, I was finally at 10 cm. At that point she said "don't push till I get back" and she went and got the doctor, Matt came back from inhaling some breakfast, and we were ready to go. 4 pushes later, I had my teeny purple baby girl on me. She weighed 6lbs 13 oz, and was 19 inches long.
She's 5 months old now, and so sweet. She started smiling around 5 weeks, which we could hardly believe, and now can roll from back to front, and sometimes she remembers that she can roll from front to back, although she forgets that and just puts her head down and cries when she's tired of being on her tummy. Big sister has adjusted very well, and gives her lots of kisses and wants to always say hello to her in the morning and kiss her before she goes to bed at night. We certainly are blessed to have 2 beautiful healthy daughters!
