This is Stella right after birth (or I should say, right after they cleaned her up!!)
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
Stella's Info
When she was born she:
Weighed 6 lbs 7 ounces
Was 19.5 inches tall
Had a good Apgar rating
And, you could tell her lungs were fully developed by the shrieks that were coming out of her when they were trying to bathe her - HA!!!
She is a little jaundice now due to being 3 weeks early and having some breastfeeding problems, but we think everyone is on the same page with the feeding now (after a consultation with a WONDERFUL lactation expert at the hospital - that we had yesterday after I had a meltdown!). We also went to the doc this morning just to be on the safe side (the weekend is coming, and you know kids always get sick after 5pm on Friday) - the doc said everything was OK and we just need to come back next week for her 1 week tests.
I foresee a very feisty kid in my future!!
Weighed 6 lbs 7 ounces
Was 19.5 inches tall
Had a good Apgar rating
And, you could tell her lungs were fully developed by the shrieks that were coming out of her when they were trying to bathe her - HA!!!
She is a little jaundice now due to being 3 weeks early and having some breastfeeding problems, but we think everyone is on the same page with the feeding now (after a consultation with a WONDERFUL lactation expert at the hospital - that we had yesterday after I had a meltdown!). We also went to the doc this morning just to be on the safe side (the weekend is coming, and you know kids always get sick after 5pm on Friday) - the doc said everything was OK and we just need to come back next week for her 1 week tests.
I foresee a very feisty kid in my future!!
Thursday, January 7, 2010
STELLA IS HERE!!
Surprise - Stella came early - WAY early!!!! I wanted her to come out, but geez, I was not prepared for the 4th....I guess that is lesson #1 with kids - expect the unexpected!!!! HA =)
If anyone wants to know - my water broke at about 4:45 am on the 4th. It was quite freaky, and not something that was anticipated. I really didn't have contractions at first, so I was not really sure what was going on in there. Once we arrived at the hospital, around 5:30, we went into triage in the maternity ward and they confirmed my water broke, and said I was 2cm, so I was moved to a room where everything would happen. They started the Pitocin drip around 8 I think (I am not quite sure, it could have been 9, I was tired!)....that stuff is the worst medicine ever. I quickly decided to get the epidural - very good idea =). After the epidural was placed around 10:30/11 everything started to speed up. They checked me at 1pm and I was 8ish cm dialated, they then checked me around 2:15 and I was almost 10cm. The nurses had me start to push around 2:45 and we did 4 or 5 sets of 3 before the doctor got there - which was apparently too many because around 3:15 they told me to not push when I felt the urge - that is hard to do! The doc arrived and we did one set of 3 and her head was out. On the second set of 3 the rest of her arrived!!! Stella was born at 3:29pm Jan 4th 2010!!
If anyone wants to know - my water broke at about 4:45 am on the 4th. It was quite freaky, and not something that was anticipated. I really didn't have contractions at first, so I was not really sure what was going on in there. Once we arrived at the hospital, around 5:30, we went into triage in the maternity ward and they confirmed my water broke, and said I was 2cm, so I was moved to a room where everything would happen. They started the Pitocin drip around 8 I think (I am not quite sure, it could have been 9, I was tired!)....that stuff is the worst medicine ever. I quickly decided to get the epidural - very good idea =). After the epidural was placed around 10:30/11 everything started to speed up. They checked me at 1pm and I was 8ish cm dialated, they then checked me around 2:15 and I was almost 10cm. The nurses had me start to push around 2:45 and we did 4 or 5 sets of 3 before the doctor got there - which was apparently too many because around 3:15 they told me to not push when I felt the urge - that is hard to do! The doc arrived and we did one set of 3 and her head was out. On the second set of 3 the rest of her arrived!!! Stella was born at 3:29pm Jan 4th 2010!!
Friday, January 1, 2010
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