I know I don't post on my blog very often but when I do its because something important happened that I want to remember and share with y'all! As many of you know Kenny was at training until 4 days before Yui's due date. So during that time I was praying baby girl would not come early! I worried so much about her coming before dad came home I never even thought of the possibility of her coming late. Well she listened to my prayers a little too well, her due date came and went. I was planning a hypnobirth in the birthing center at the hospital, which is a no intervention room, no IVs, no medications, basically it's a home birth in the hospital setting. Once we started creeping up on 42 weeks the birthing center was no longer an option because overdue is considered high risk. We were given the option of using a low intervention room, which still allowed monitoring but less than labor and delivery. An induction was scheduled but I was trying everything I could to go into labor on my own, I literally tried EVERYTHING!! July 14th came around and the hospital called us and told us to be there at 6am. I still really did not want pitocin because I knew it would make my contractions more painful and harder to go natural. So I asked if they could just break my water and see if that started labor. So they broke my water at 7am and then we started the walking. Two and a half hours later they checked me again and I was still at a 1+, absolutely no progress. So I gave in and they started the pitocin. Contractions started and they wet coming consistently every 2-3 minutes, at noon they checked me again and no progress. I decided it was time to relax in the bath because the contractions were getting more and more intense. I labored in the bath for 4 hours, it was wonderful! The heat from the water eased the pain and helped me breath through each contraction. Around 4pm I decided to get out and have them check my progress. The minute I got out of the tub I realized out much the bath helped ease the pain, I wanted to jump back in the water but I needed to be checked. So I breath through the pain the best I can while waiting to be checked. At this point I've been having regular contractions for 10 hours, I was expecting them to tell me I was at about a 5 or 6 and it wouldn't be much longer. She checked me and hesitantly told me I was still at a 1+.... I died a little inside at that news. She left the room and I turned to Kenny and told him, call her back in here I need the drugs. She came back and started giving me options of different pain medications they offer, knowing I was trying to go natural then gave us a minute to discuss. The second she left I told Kenny I wanted the epidural and I didn't even consider the other options. At 5pm the anesthesiologist arrived and I could care less about the size of the needle. I hardly even noticed him place the epidural and within 10 minutes I was completely numb. The rest of the night the nurse came in every hour and turned me from one side to the other and every time she did I threw up. I also got the shakes really bad so clearly I wasn't able to sleep. Kenny was so good to me through all this, I am just so glad her was there. My sisters, mom, mother in law and sister in law all came and went during the day, bring us food, pillows, blankets and movies, they were all such amazing help! By 10pm my shakes had calmed down and they checked me again and finally progress!! I was at a 4! After that we tried to get some rest, Kenny easily fell asleep on the couch while I struggled with the stupid blood pressure machine going off. At 1am she told me I was dilated to an 8 and that we would start pushing soon! That was music to my ears! I wake up Kenny and tell him the news and he says "are you lying?" Why would I lie about that? My mom and sisters show up about 1:45, tired but excited! After a bit more waiting the nurse told me we would start pushing at 3am! The doctor arrived at 3:30 and baby girl was born at exactly 4am! Apparently she had pooped during labor and it caused her have a hard time breathing, I was not able to do direct skin to skin, in fact I didn't even see what she looked like before they rushed her over to the corner of the room and the respiratory therapist came in and suctioned out her lungs. It was very scary but my amazing doctor was very calm and reassuring. My sisters and Kenny all kept saying how beautiful and perfect she was and I was very anxious to hold her. About 10-15 minutes later they finally brought over this amazingly perfect baby girl and my life changed forever. She is absolutely perfect and Kenny and I are completely in love with her!
Once we got her home and settled we had to have babies first photoshoot <3
