Happy Birthday Olivia!
I thought I would take a moment today to share the condensed version of her birth story with you all since I started my blog when she was 3 months old. Once upon a time...
5:30 pm March 3, 2007...on our way home from grocery shopping I started having contractions 5-10 minutes apart. We had Ryan's brother in the car with us so I waited until we arrived home to tell him. He made me a sandwich and then left to go and snow blow the mini-storage. I sat on the couch and waited.
7:00 pm...I went upstairs to lay on our bed, hoping to be more comfortable, and watched Oprah's special on her school in South Africa. Contractions started consistently coming every 5 minutes and were becoming more painful.
8:00 pm...Called Ryan and said he better come home!
9:00 pm...Called the hospital and they said to come in...so we did!!
10:30 pm...Admitted, started walking the halls and called our parents to let them know baby was on it's way!
Let's just skip the hours from 1 am March 4 to 7 am...horrible back labor, internal monitors that didn't wait to stay on, the breaking of the water, no relief in between contractions due to back labor, yeah...let's skip that part.
7:00 am...One word: EPIDURAL. Thank goodness. Rested until 9:30 am. Finally dialated to an 8. Nice pic, don't you think? Ugh...
11:00 am: 10 cm!! Started pushing...baby not wanting to turn face down...talk about the OB coming in to turn her...OUCH! OB comes in to check, she had turned on her own!! Continue pushing...
12:45 pm: OB comes in again, concerned about needing to use the vaccum....I said, NO WAY! And pushed with all my might.
1:00 pm: Here is Olivia Lynn! 7 lb. 2 oz., 21 in. long! Beautiful baby girl!
It was so worth it...
10 comments:
Happy birthday, Olivia! xoxoxox
I loved reading her story (and could totally relate to that miserable back labor--if a lady doesn't have back labor, I don't even want to hear her complain--ha, ha!). The stories were fun to see...it's hard to believe it has been a year! Happy Birthday Olivia! Party it up, girl!
YEAH! Happy birthday! And labor sounds like all my labors combined! (except the getting stuck at 8 or 9 for 4 hours...I am glad you cant include that in your story!) Hoepfully the next labor willbe MUCH shorter and MUCH easier!
HAPPY BDAY! What a milestone...I remember lilly's first birthday like it was yesterday! Great story!
Yay for birthdays! Happy birthday Olivia!
And she was even a beautiful newborn. You know..not all babies are beautiful when they are born. Olivia....she was. And still is. Oh she is cute!!
BTW, love the poll.
Happy late Bday Liv, sorry I didn't call yesterday I was stuck at daycare and couldn't get to the phone.
I just got back from the beach, the ocean was great...the only thing that would've made it better was if you were there and we could've cruised the beach in my jeep. Oh well, we'll sneak out soon.
Later baby,
Elijah Dangerously Cute Porta
Thanks everybody! She had quite the day yesterday which I will post about when I have more time...off to work now!
thanks for sharing the story! what a beautiful moment even through all the back labor!
I didn't know Olivia was a March baby! I have two!! Halloran is March 19th, and Brady is March 25th. I have two parties to plan in a couple of weeks!! AAAAAAAAAahhhh!
Glad she had a nice day!
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