I know I haven't been on here in forever to update you all!! But as most of you know, Samantha made her entrance on October 11th, 2009 at 8:56AM. She was 7lbs 1oz, 19 1/2 inches long!
Labor and delivery went surprisingly awesome! I started having contractions after I woke up from a nap the day before. I could barely tell they were contractions. So we waited a little while to see if they would get stronger. They ended getting a little stronger so my husband and I went to the hospital to see if I certainly have started labor. The nurse told us I was only dilated to 1 and the contractions weren't strong enough. She told us we could either stay at the hospital or go home. We figured it would take a while so we just decided to go home. We didn't want to stay at the hospital longer then we had to.
After returning home around 10 or 11. I decided to get something to eat and lay on the couch. While I was laying there I felt and heard a big POP! Yup... My water broke! (let me tell you... it is the MOST disgusting feeling, felt like you were peeing on yourself constantly) I called labor and delivery. The nurse told me to take a shower and pack my bags and head to the hospital. My husband called his mother and after I was done showering and packing a few more things, off we went to the hospital.
As we were driving my contractions were getting a lot worse and on top of that I was leaking everywhere. We finally made it to the hospital. My husband wheeled me up to labor in delivery. We got to our room and I changed and got hooked up to the monitors. Everything was going beautifully.
The contractions were getting a lot worse so I tried the Whirlpool a couple of times. It helped for a little while. Then while I was laying in the tub, I just couldn't take it anymore. So I told my mother in-law that I needed a nurse and some epidural. After getting sick (thank you mom for holding my hair back,lol) I went back into the bed and the nurse hooked me back up to the monitors. Finally the anesthesiologist got there with the most wonderful drug in the world! He had me lay on the bed on my side with my needs touching my chin, which as you can imagine was very uncomfortable with this big belly, I had a couple of contractions as he was poking me which wasn't fun but I didn't think it hurt at all getting poked. I thought getting my IV hurt more then the epidural. They also gave me some Pitocin to help things speed up. After a few minutes I was pain free!!! I could actually lay there and just relax and watch some movies. I was going to try and get some sleep since I've been up all night but, I couldn't. It was just too exciting knowing that we were going to meet our little girl at anytime.
It wasn't more then an hour and it was time to start pushing. I pushed for a couple of minutes and my doctor told me that she was hung up on my tail bone so she had to use a suction cup to help her out without having to break my tail bone. Before the doctor had Samantha all the way out, the doctor held her head up and waved Samantha's arm to Grandma while she took a picture. It was so incredible! I ended up only having to push for about 15-20 minutes and there she was!! Our beautiful baby girl! It was AMAZING!!!!!!
I got to hold her right away. I couldn't believe it! This beautiful creature that lived inside of me for 9 months was in my arms and I could actually see her moving around and hear her cry! Everyone was crying themselves.. Yes, even my husband! Which I have NEVER seen him cry before. But I knew this day was going to be the 1st!
They took her away to get her cleaned up and weighed and do all the things they needed to do to make sure she was a healthy baby. And she is a VERY healthy little girl! We are so blessed and couldn't imagine not having her in our lives!
