Much Needed Update

WHOA it's been a while...so quick catch up (not that many read this anyway...who knows, it just might happen today lol) *inhale large breath*

Bayani Sage was born August 28th after 20 hours of labor, not all of it was intense, only like the first 2 or 3 hours and the last 5 hours...had gone in on the 27th for regular appointment, but her heart rate was low, so they decided to send me to Ingham Regional Medical Center *here after to be known as IRMC* to see what they wanted me to do...which was later determined to induce me. They stuck (literally) a string up my "hoo-ha" which got my cervix ready and started small amounts of labor...but since it was getting said cervix ready, it hurt for a bit...after that, waiting game.

*pant pant pant....inhale large breath again*

NEXT MORNING (28th) they hooked me to an I.V. of crap to get labor going at about 8am, after like half an hour of being on said I.V., during a contraction, her heart rate dropped down to near 70 for 2 minutes straight...her heart rate is supposed to be between 120-160. So, they stopped my I.V. for a little bit, monitored me for a while, eventually put me back on the I.V., and watched me for a while. At about 11am, they checked my cervix, and I was only dilated to 3cm (you need to be at 10 to have the baby, if you don't know this) they said since I had been on the I.V. for as long as I've been, and since her heart rate kept going a tiny bit lower than they wanted it to during each contraction...they said if I didn't make any progress by noon, I would get a C-section...basically, if I didn't get to 10cm in one hour, I'd get the C-section.

*SUPER large inhale, pant pant pant...large breath AGAIN*

At 11:45, I felt a weird feeling, since at 11:15 I got an epidural, it wasn't pain. It was pressure. I told my nurse I was feeling something weird that wasn't a normal tightness from the contractions. She threw on a glove and some gooey stuff and checked my cervix and said she couldn't find it...either it's gone or she's missing it. They called the attending doctor and made Dr. Seiler hurry up, and so the attending told me to start pushing. Ironically I went from 3cm to 10 cm in 45 minutes, and just to let you know, that's freaking unheard of, super rare. Magically at 12:20 her little head popped out and before her shoulders were out she barked at the doctors. It was quite funny.

*sigh*

Other than that, nothing new has happened. She was born at 5 lbs 7 oz., 19 1/8 inches long. She just had an appointment on Wednesday and is now 7 lbs, 15 oz and 21 inches long. She's very good at holding her own head up already, not for long periods of time, but for a couple minutes. As long as you steady her, she can stand on her feat and hold herself up for a minute straight or two also. She is now starting to smile more, only a little, I don't think she means to, she knows that when she moves certain face muscles it makes mommy happy...that's about it.

She's getting so big so fast already :)