Phew! Now that we're home and pretty much settled in, I finally feel I can sit down and dish out all the details of this amazing event! OH! But first! Our closet AND living room wall is done! I'm so proud of Jeromy. He busted is butt to get it done and a friend of his came over and finished the dry-wall and texuring. They look fantastic!Ok, back to the important stuff... So, Monday the 5th I convinced my doctor to actually go through with inducing me and we were set for Wednesday. Jeromy started video taping as we left the house and wouldn't stop! Proud daddy, I must say! We checked in at 7 am to Emanuel and about 8:30 they started the pitocin and broke my water. Nice thing was that right when we got settled into our room I lost my mucous plug and started having good contractions on my own. I'm sure that's what helped me progress so quickly. They took me off the pitocin around 10:30 because I started having steady contractions about 1 minute apart. I was able to walk around for a little bit and then spent about 2 hours on and off sitting on an exercise ball. It was so nice! I was amazed at how it helped with dealing with the pain. They gave me something in my IV to "take the edge off" and it was wierd! I felt more drunk than anything and it didn't touch the pain. My mom, Bonnie (Jeromy's mom) and Madeline all showed up about noon. Madeline was so excited and asked at one point if we could have another baby! I asked if we could get through delivering this one before we started planning for more. lol At 1:15 I was at 7 centimeters and my awesome nurse, Emily, suggested I sit in the jaccuzi tub to help releave some of the presure and relax. I was going to give it a shot, but when I went to stand up I thought I was going to vomit and I realized how tired I was. I sat dealing with the pain and deciding on an epidural for a couple minutes. I was done... I got the epidural at 1:45 and it took a good half hour to kick in. He gave me the smallest dose and once it did, I got about an hour of pain free contractions. I was trying to take a nap but I think I was so tired and excited, I just couldn't get to sleep. Funniest thing about that is my mom, Bonnie, Jeromy and Madeline all got cat naps during that time. The epidural started to wear off but I was trying so hard to deal with them and not give myslef another shot of the drugs. I finally did and at 3:00 my doctor arived. It was great to see him and I was so glad he made it to deliver Libby. I as at 10 and ready to go! I started pushing at 3:15 and at 3:44 our Libby was born! Everyone in the room was shocked at how big she was! Dr. Prescott blurted out "Well, you haven't missed any meals little one!" Madeline came in and helped Jeromy cut the umbelical cord and the mom's followed close behind. We had the vidoe camera set up right behind my head during the delivery and got some pretty funny comentary throughout the whole day.
As for now, we're all doing just amazing! She's such a good baby, just like Madeline was. She latched on right away and is an awesome sleeper! She's awake more and more during the day and is up to about 4 hours of sleep at a time during the night. Best thing is that I nurse her for about 30 minutes and she goes right back to sleep. She's not at all fussy and when she does fus, it's usually time to eat or time to change her butt. OMG! The funniest thing happened last night, I started crying! Jeromy was changing a poopy diaper and apparently she wasn't done. Right as he got the clean one under her butt she had a projectile poop! It went everywhere and almost hit our dog Jake, who was sitting there supervising. It was hysterical! Jeromy didn't think so because it went everywhere, but I couldn't stop laughing!
Anywho... Here are a few pictures from all this good fun! Enjoy!!
