Apearantly, when most people have an epidural the needle goes right on it, but with me, I have a really tight back apearantly and it took nearly ten tries to get the part that gives you the goods in (the catheder). All other tries resulting in hitting the bone making an ominous and very icky crunching noise.
I started to feel contractions again around 9cm and then when I hit ten, little Evelyn still wasn't ready to come, she hadn't dropped yet, so they double dosed my epidural meds so that I could comfortably sit at a ten for 2 hours in hopes she would drop and not leave me pushing for 2 hours. Ok, very effective. I was so numb I couldn't even move my toes. So then about an hour later the Doctor came to check on me, and had me 'practice' push, so when the time came I'd know what to do...Also very effective. She dropped a lot sooner than any one anticipated and I was ready to have the baby.
However, there was still the fact that I couldn't even move one toe. The nurse had to hold her hand on my tummy to feel my contractions for me to tell me when to push. Three, maybe four contrations later (15min of pushing tops) we had Evelyn in our arms after not even 16 hours of labor. It was a fantastic experiance. I was so scared about the whole thing, but really, it was so cool...most likely because I couldn't feel a thing and was smiling the whole time and my Doctor was cracking jokes, but really, AMAZING.
She was 8lbs 11oz and when I held her I was seriously like, how did you fit in there!!! She's so perfect though and minus the second night we brought her home (she had a tummy ache all night) she sleeps through the night, waking only 2-3 times to eat and be changes then falls right back asleep again. She's never fussy, just smily when she's awake (which is really like 2-3 hours a day) and so adorable when she's sleeping. It's so fun to dress her up and play with her. I keep saying she's my new toy. It's hard not to change her outfit 3 times a day because she looks so cute in everything. We just love her chubby little cheeks!! Luckily she did get Stevens hands and feet, long and slender. We really spend all day just staring at her. I can't even imagine life with out her!
Twin Noses!
Going out grocery shopping
First time Daddy bathed Evelyn
Evelyn held her head up for close to five minutes at not even a week old! Very impressive
Evelyn and her betrothed, Mason
I think this may be a gassy face...
Birthday Suprises!!!!
My birthdays not for another week but Steven couldn't wait another week. He thoguht of it 6months ago but one week was too much!!And I'm glad it was! When we were in Denver, we were really borded one night so Steven suggested we go for a walk around the mall and look at things we want. Well, I've always wanted pearls, so we went to tons of jewlery stores looking at pearls and I found the perfect set. The necklace I would buy if we weren't just looking at things we'd never get. Little did I know that Steven was actaully taking me birthday shopping because he would never pick out pearls for me. SO now I am the proud owner of the most beautiful 80 inch strand of pearls I have ever seen! They are so perfect and so unique. I love oblong, or uncultured pearls and they're hard to find because jewlers culture the crap out of every thing,but find them we did and own them I do! Happy birthday to me!
