She's Heeeere !!! Home Sweet Home !!!
Well, we are finally home and beginning to get in to a routine. Raija will be 2 weeks old this Wednesday, Oct. 7th . She is doing so well and is a great baby. She loves to sleep, eat and her thoroughly enjoys her 'naked time' every morning. Ty and I are truly blessed.
Labor, on the other hand, was quite an experience for the both of us! We arrived at the hospital at 6 am to be induced. Ty went to move the car out of the emergency parking lot and, when he returned, the contractions were already coming hard and fast. The nurses predicted Raija to arrive sometime around 4:00 pm. I was in pain quickly and received an epidural around 9:00 am. It was so weird; it only numbed my left side for a bit, then I wasn't numb at all. The contractions continued to get worse, I was not getting any relief and I had already received the maximum dosage of the epidural. The nurses offered, and I decided I would have the anesthesiologist re-do the epidural. So as everyone was running around trying to get him back to our room, I looked up at Ty and realized I was pushing. Ty had to get the nursing staff and they asked if I wanted the epidural. I said there was no time-I needed to push! I started pushing at 10:50 and the nurses told Ty they were changing their delivery guesstimate from 4:00pm to 11:20, which turned out to be a great guess because, after 30 minutes of pushing, Raija Jewel arrived at 11:21am. Thank goodness she came fast!! She is absolutely perfect and each day we fall more and more in love with her!
Stats: 11:21am, 7 lbs., 4 oz., 20 inches long
-Breann
Labor, on the other hand, was quite an experience for the both of us! We arrived at the hospital at 6 am to be induced. Ty went to move the car out of the emergency parking lot and, when he returned, the contractions were already coming hard and fast. The nurses predicted Raija to arrive sometime around 4:00 pm. I was in pain quickly and received an epidural around 9:00 am. It was so weird; it only numbed my left side for a bit, then I wasn't numb at all. The contractions continued to get worse, I was not getting any relief and I had already received the maximum dosage of the epidural. The nurses offered, and I decided I would have the anesthesiologist re-do the epidural. So as everyone was running around trying to get him back to our room, I looked up at Ty and realized I was pushing. Ty had to get the nursing staff and they asked if I wanted the epidural. I said there was no time-I needed to push! I started pushing at 10:50 and the nurses told Ty they were changing their delivery guesstimate from 4:00pm to 11:20, which turned out to be a great guess because, after 30 minutes of pushing, Raija Jewel arrived at 11:21am. Thank goodness she came fast!! She is absolutely perfect and each day we fall more and more in love with her!
Stats: 11:21am, 7 lbs., 4 oz., 20 inches long
-Breann
posted by Raija Jewel @ 8:10 PM
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