AlyssaRose!!
Proud Daddy!
Proud Mommy!
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
HERE SHE IS!!
ALYSSA ROSE HAS ARRIVED!
She was born on Feb. 6th at 6:04 PM! She weighed in at 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 20 inches long! She is a precious gift from God and we are truly blessed!
It was quite an experience for me. I was scheduled to be induced so I went to the hospital on Tues. February 5th around 8:00 pm. Andy and my sister Maria came with me.
I got settled and around 9:00 pm they gave me a pill to help ripen the cervix and get contractions started. About an hour later I had pains in my back. Oh and I got the IV put in, talk about OUCH! Yeah - anyhow, as each hour passed, the pain was getting worse. Maria left around 12:00 and Andy and I went to sleep around 12:30. By 2:00 am I was in a lot of pain and got up and rang for the nurse. She gave me something she called a "cocktail" so that the pain wasn't so bad so I could get some sleep. At 6:00 am a team came in to put some kind of "balloon" to help me dilate - yeah, I won't even get into how much pain THAT was! I can still feel it if I really think about it. By 9:00 am I was in AGONY! I was crying and Dr. Bailey walked in and said "I think you are ready for an epidural" Um, YEAH, I'd say so! ha! That hurt like a, well you know ~anyhow, after that, NOTHING! No pain- it was just WAITING to dilate ~ well, I was having contractions constantly but NEVER EVER DILATED! By 5:00 pm that day, Dr. Bailey came in and said I had a couple options ~ unhook everything that was in me and let me go home and come back the following week and do it all over again, OR get a c~section. Well, after all that I said "Let's go, get this baby out!" So after some preparation and scrubbing up, they started the procedure which was SO fast! Of course I was out of it with all the drugs in me but it was really amazing. I remember some of the conversation that took place, definitely talked about Grey's Anatomy which was funny!
When Dr. Bailey said "It's a girl" all I could shout was "Thank You Jesus! Alyssa Rose is here" and I looked at Andy and asked if he was OK that she was a girl cause I know he wanted a boy. He was in love the second he saw her! He is overjoyed!!
She is now 3 weeks and 1 day old! It's been overwhelming but the most wonderful experience a woman could ever have. I can't believe she is here and that I am a Mommy!! She doesn't cry much ~ only when hungry, needs a diaper change which she doesn't even cry much during that because she's so busy staring at a big black and white bear we have in her crib! She loves Mr. Bear! :)
So there she is folks ~ she's here and we couldn't be more grateful for Alyssa! :)
She was born on Feb. 6th at 6:04 PM! She weighed in at 8 pounds, 13 ounces and 20 inches long! She is a precious gift from God and we are truly blessed!
It was quite an experience for me. I was scheduled to be induced so I went to the hospital on Tues. February 5th around 8:00 pm. Andy and my sister Maria came with me.
I got settled and around 9:00 pm they gave me a pill to help ripen the cervix and get contractions started. About an hour later I had pains in my back. Oh and I got the IV put in, talk about OUCH! Yeah - anyhow, as each hour passed, the pain was getting worse. Maria left around 12:00 and Andy and I went to sleep around 12:30. By 2:00 am I was in a lot of pain and got up and rang for the nurse. She gave me something she called a "cocktail" so that the pain wasn't so bad so I could get some sleep. At 6:00 am a team came in to put some kind of "balloon" to help me dilate - yeah, I won't even get into how much pain THAT was! I can still feel it if I really think about it. By 9:00 am I was in AGONY! I was crying and Dr. Bailey walked in and said "I think you are ready for an epidural" Um, YEAH, I'd say so! ha! That hurt like a, well you know ~anyhow, after that, NOTHING! No pain- it was just WAITING to dilate ~ well, I was having contractions constantly but NEVER EVER DILATED! By 5:00 pm that day, Dr. Bailey came in and said I had a couple options ~ unhook everything that was in me and let me go home and come back the following week and do it all over again, OR get a c~section. Well, after all that I said "Let's go, get this baby out!" So after some preparation and scrubbing up, they started the procedure which was SO fast! Of course I was out of it with all the drugs in me but it was really amazing. I remember some of the conversation that took place, definitely talked about Grey's Anatomy which was funny!
When Dr. Bailey said "It's a girl" all I could shout was "Thank You Jesus! Alyssa Rose is here" and I looked at Andy and asked if he was OK that she was a girl cause I know he wanted a boy. He was in love the second he saw her! He is overjoyed!!
She is now 3 weeks and 1 day old! It's been overwhelming but the most wonderful experience a woman could ever have. I can't believe she is here and that I am a Mommy!! She doesn't cry much ~ only when hungry, needs a diaper change which she doesn't even cry much during that because she's so busy staring at a big black and white bear we have in her crib! She loves Mr. Bear! :)
So there she is folks ~ she's here and we couldn't be more grateful for Alyssa! :)
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