Tuesday, September 16, 2008

How did it go?

This seems to be the question of the day. So, here is the whole story in a nutshell...
On Friday night around 10:30pm I thought that my water broke, so I called the hospital. Since we weren't sure if it really did (3 calls later) I rested until 4:30 and woke up and still felt that I needed to be checked and the nurse agreed. So we headed on in around 5:30am on Saturday morning. I have a bacteria that lives in my body called group b strep so I had to be admitted as soon as I thought that my water broke so I could be given antibiotics to prevent the spread of the bacteria to Elly. So, I "hung out" until labor and contractions started around 2:30...still no action...Pitocin started at 4:00 to help speed up labor and give it a kick...finally needed some drugs around 8:00pm (ouch, the doctor couldn't get the epidural in - 5 tries later, ugh!) and then I just laid there throughout the whole night waiting and waiting and waiting for Ellyson to move down so that I finally meet her and then after around 2 hours of active labor and pushing...I got to meet her.

Elly and I both are doing VERY well and had zero problems so we got to come home today!!

1 comments:

teampischke said...

Welcome baby Elly.. thanks for posting Holly... isn't that Epi the best thing ever.
She is adorable.
How are you?
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