Blessed

Well here we are....we did it!! And right up until that moment it still seemed so surreal. I cannot believe we have been blessed with such a beautiful, healthy baby girl!!

The delivery went pretty well. We started the induction at 8am and she was born at 7:26pm. There was a slow period around lunch time where there was no progress and the doctor was about to send us for a C-section. Luckily, I was able to labor a little longer with an epidural and sure enough things went really fast! I have to say my labor was not bad at all, probably because the epidural had messed up a little and they had to bolus a dose right at the pushing stage. This was so great...I was numb, I could not feel contractions, and the doctor had to tell me to stop pushing because she was already out!! Madelyn did have the cord wrapped once around her neck (which was scary), but I was assured by the best nurse ever (Jenni) that she would be fine.

Madelyn is a little over one week old now and I have learned sooooooooo much. Madelyn is doing great. Her first Dr visit went wonderful. I started crying in the parking lot thinking they were going to draw blood from her and I would have to see her scream. After we got in the room, he was so pleased with how she looked he did not feel the need to check her bilirubin. No pokes, yeah!!! She is doing great at nursing I could not ask for much more (except sleep.....but that is ok). As for me (now known as 'mom'), I am also doing good. I am still adjusting to the sleep schedule, but that gets better with every day. Here are some updated pics. There will be plently more to come!