She's here!

Short version:  Juliet Elise was born 3-3 at 18:18, weighing 7,7!  She's all about the double numbers!  She is doing great!  I'm still having issues with my blood pressure and some pre-e signs-- headache, slightly blurred vision.  

The whole story:  I went in on Wednesday night to start Cervidil.  I didn't end up getting it until midnight.  I was able to sleep until about 2 am, when I woke up in pain.  I didn't make much progress over the night, but some.  Dr. came in and broke my water around 9am and placed an internal monitor to measure contractions.  I was having strong regular contractions, so they didn't start pitocin.  I was only at 1.5 cm at that time!  The contractions were getting painful, but I was getting through them.  Around 10:30, I was only at 2cm!  

I was told that the anesthesiologist would be in a c-section starting around noon, so if I wanted an epidural, I had to order it before then or wait until after 2pm.  I ended up getting the epi around 11:30am.  By noon, I had dialated to a 3, which was frustrating for me!  Shortly thereafter, I started really feeling the contractions in my cervix and rectal area, to the point where I was shaking and in tears from the pain.  I got a booster to the epi around 3pm.  When my wonderful nurse came to check me at 4:30, I was really hoping to be at least 6cm.  The good news was that I was 9!  She came back a little over an hour later, and I was fully dialated and baby had moved to +1.  She had me practice pushing, and said I was really efficient at it.  She called for the Dr. and I started pushing.  Then she got worried that I would get the baby out before the doctor came, so they called her and she had me push at 50% to move her down more slowly.  Once the doctor got in, baby was out in 2 pushes!  I have a minor tear and still have really high blood pressure, which I am on meds for.  

She is beautiful, with a little bit of blondish hair.  Her apgars were 9 and 9, and she is doing well!  We'lll go home from the hospital tomorrow.  We are both in love with her!