She's Here!

On Saturday November 27th at 7:52am Madeleine Rae made her arrival into this world. It wasn't the easiest labor but she was completely worth everything.

It all started on Thanksgiving. After a great day spent with some great friends I went to bed about 9pm to get ready for some cleaning I had planned for Friday. I fell asleep fairly quickly and woke up about 2 hours later with contractions. I layed in bed for a while and started to track them using an app I had downloaded a few days before. After about 30 minutes I decided I wanted to go lay with Jym (who had been sleeping in the guest room due to my snoring). The contractions were 8-9 minutes apart but steady.

I went back into the bedroom a little while later to let Jym get some sleep and tried to get some myself. I didn't get much as the contractions kept me up for the most part although I snoozed in between them when i could. The contractions got a little longer apart in the morning 8-12 minutes. We decided to go to Home Depot early afternoon and try to get a few things we saw. The walking seemed to get the contractions going a little stronger and closer together and around 4:30pm I called the doctor because the contractions had been about 5 minutes apart for a little over 30 minutes. The doctor told us to go into the hospital and so we arrived there around 6pm.

We got admitted a few hours later. After some walking around and the fact that i had been consistently contracting for almost 24 hours I was at the point where I was just exhausted and asked about an epidural. The epidural was put in at 11pm and at 5am the doctor broke my water and 3 hours later Madeleine made her arrival. We had been expecting her to be a decent sized baby as at my visits the doctor had said as such and had guessed around 8-8.5 pounds. When she finally arrived and was weighed she was 9lbs and 9oz. I definitely was not expecting that and I think it surprised the doctor as well.

A few hours later we were up in recovery and Diana arrived around 11am. It's been a hectic couple of days and we got to go home on Monday but we're making our way through it. It's definitely not easy but she is absolutely perfect and gorgeous. Here are a few pictures of our precious little girl.