Ava Lynn birth story

sorry it took me so long. any way, it starts on friday. about mid morning friday i started to have constant contractions, and as many of you know i was feeling prettty upset then too. at that time i was ignoring them, or at least trying to. i had pains like that before and every time they told me i hadn't had enough water, and my bladder was just acting up out of distress. so i tried resting and drinking some water. my daughters where taking advantage of me tho hardcore. they knew i was weak and were in EVERYTHING. i never had so much issues as friday.
by 5 i was about to lose it. i called my onoffical mother to vent and she said she would take the girls for a little while. i bawled. flat out just cied my eyes out. poor seph was upset by my crying so she sat in front of me and cried too, and of course i only cried harder. illi kept smiling as if to try and cheer me up.... i felt like a real failure.
because i was a few days past due when she picked my girls up i told her there was a good chance i was in early labor..... but i wasn't sure.
about an hour later my husband josh came home and tried to help me calm down.it worked mostly, except the contractions were still coming. at that point they were give or take about a 10 minutes apart.
i called my aunt who is also pregnant and due with her 5th soon, figuring she's really the th e most likely to know if i was in labor. and if i wasn't she'd know before i had to call the doc. five minutes after i talked to her, i called her back as i was losing my mucsu plug,.
we waited till about 2 when my contractions were about 4 minutes apart before we headed out. (my god damn cat bite me while i ws in the middle of an contraction.... i'd killed him if i hadn't been wrapped up in you know a contraction. we really didnt grab anything other than the cameras phones and our selves and arrived at the hospital at 2:30.
i was disappionted to learn i was only 3cm at that point. but the labor wasn't so bad. looking back thoughi think part of the reason i wasn't getting very far was becausei was tensing not relaxing.
i was soooo tired i asked for iv meds just so i could sleep and get som strenth back. they did, and i kinda slept some.....
at 5ish i was checked again, ava was pretty far down, and contractions were every three or 2, but i was only a 4..... i think my doc was getting worried by that time because he popped my water (after i received a dose of iv meds again) and put an internal monitor in.
after that my labor seemed come to a stand still..... at 8ish (not sure on times.... i was very tired.....) they started pitocin, and i asked for an epi..... woooo that stuff HURTS. the epi allowed me to relaxe some and i went from 4 to 10 from 8 to 12. yea.... and the epi i got was a lower kind of epi, i could still feel contractions, but not nearly to the degree....
one whole leg was dead tho.... i could wiggle my toes and that was it..... that was my left side. my right side i did pretty good on i could still move, just not well....
at 10 they told me i wasllowed to push, and once everyone was in place, push i did! FOR TWENTY MINUTES!!! sorry, just a little proud of that !
it took me about 5-8 minutes before i figured out HOW to push, but after that it took no time popping her out.
at one point i believe i was told i said something like,"get the fuck out!" i didn't scream, cry (ok i cried, but not from pain...) i could feel herhead as i pushed her out. i KNEW then just how close i was.....
they placed her on my belly, all goo covered....... my first words were, "baby, oh.... my baby, baby baby baby....."
she was born at 12:25 saturday, weighing 7lbs 3 ozes, 19 and 1/4 inched long. her head was 12 and 3/4.
i tore only slighty, requiring a single stich at an angle.
the next day i spent ALL DAY breastfeeding. literally from boob, to other boob. between 20-45 minutes on each side, from side to side. (the nurses started calling her a little pirana)
even the lactation constult was curous how she would still be rooting when she had just finished, and did 2 things she normally never did. she give her 2 teaspoons of formula, and a binkie, but when she started spitting up, she just looked confused.....
needless to say but my milk is in, and my nipples sting!!

more pictures at a later date!

Congrats on your new and very cute little girl  !

congrats!

Congrats she is beautiful!  

Aww so cute mama! Your daughter's name sounds like my best friends daugther's name. Ayla -Lynn, but she used those 2 names, as her first name, then she has the middle name.