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Laela Jolie is here! (pictures!)

posted 25th Oct

I was scheduled to be induced on October 21st, 3 days before my due date, because my doctor was afraid she was going to be too big for me. We got to the hospital around 8:30am and they got me started on pitocin right away. Considering I had been having pretty regular contractions all morning and that I was already 4cms dilated everyone figured it'd be a pretty quick labor. Every 30 minutes they came and turned the pitocin up and within an hour or two of being on it, I was already dilated to a 5. At that time my doctor decided to go ahead and break my water, and after if ruptured my doctor wouldn't stop saying "THIS IS A GUSHER" "I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER SEEN THIS MUCH FLUID" and things of that sort then the nurse jumped up on me and was pushing baby around so the water would come out and it hurt SO bad.. it seemed kinda mean if you ask me :| I felt like crying when they were breaking my water and I just kept looking at Josh with these sad eyes because its like "Ok, this is it.. there is no turning back now" and it was just a sad moment, lol. About an hour after my water broke (about 1pm) I decided to get my epidural and I was in AFWUL pain but the epidural helped a lot. They checked me around 1:30-ish and my doctor said I was 5/6 so we were all getting so excited because I was progressing pretty fast! Then around 2 the nurse checked me again and my mom was saying "So how dilated is she?" and the nurse says "I'm not sure.. but the baby turned herself and is now face presented.. I can feel her nose, her eye" meaning Laela was basically looking out my hole.. face first. She said that she was going to turn me on my side hoping that Laela would turn and she'd come back and check me in an hour but that if she didn't turn I might have to get a c-section. Thank GOD I had already had my epidural because I felt so 'high' that they could've come in and beat me up, and I wouldn't have even cared.. so thankfully I didn't bawl my eyes out, like I would have if I hadn't been drugged up. At about 2 she checked me again and said that she hadn't turned and that Laela was actually trying to suck on her finger, lol! She said my doctor would come down in a few minutes to check me and decide what to do. My doctor came and checked me around 3 and said I was dilated to a 7 and completely effaced but that Laela was still face presented. He said that I could deliver that way, but she would end up having a super bruised face and it wouldn't be very safe because the face isn't able or meant to be squished like their heads are, so that they need to go ahead and prep the OR. I was freaking out. They turned off the pitocin right away and all of these people started coming in. The pumped my epidural catheter full of numbing meds and after about 7 or 8 shots full of numbing meds, I was completely numb. Josh put on his scrubs and I got wheeled to the OR. They continued to pump me full of meds still. I saw up on the big operating light on the ceiling my whole naked bottom half being covered in betadine then they put up the blue sheet and I started hearing them go ahead and start operating. Josh still wasn't in the room and I was panicked that Laela would come out without him in there. Anyways pretty soon the anesthesia lady said "Josh, go ahead and stand up, give me your camera!" and they take a picture of Laela being pulled out of my belly. I head some shuffling around and then I heard the most amazing noise in the world, her cry. They brought her over all cheesy and bloody so I could see her and she decide to pee all over the floor! After I saw her I just looked and Josh and started crying so much. I kept saying "How much does she weigh, how much does she weigh" and then I heard loud and clear "9 pounds,1 ounce!" and I was smiling. I honestly can't remember much after that. The stitched me up and put me back in the L&D room. I still can't remember much after that. I slept for a little while but I kept hearing the nurses say "Quit fighting the sleep, just rest" I then got put in postpartum where my mom and Josh showed up, along with sweet baby Laela. I came home from the hospital last night and things have been going great. Breastfeeding is going awesome.. though since she is a pretty big girl I have to give her 1oz of formula in the middle of the night so I can actually get 3 hours of sleep since my milk still hasn't come in yet I can't fill her up for a long time. I still am pretty sore from my c-section, but its mainly my muscles that hurt... after all of this, I honestly don't think I ever want another kid -.-