She's here!

It's funny how you make certain plans and you get ideas about how things will turn out, but in the end, none of your plans matter because life has a way of making its own plans. That's how Emilie's birth ended up. We left Isaac with Jarom's parents then started heading up to the hospital, but on our way, Michele called and said that they were very busy and to come in at 11pm instead of 8pm. so we went to my parents' house and visited with them to bide our time, then finally ended up at the hospital. By about 11:30pm I was going on the pitocin and labor was underway. Progress was slow-going, and about 4am they broke my water without much significant change. After a few hours, I was still only dilated about 5-6 cm. Part of the problem was the scar tissue from the cerclage not permitting me to dilate further, and part was her head not progressing down into the birth canal. I stayed in a pretty steady laboring pattern all morning, then around 1pm, my doctor decided that the best solution would be to do a c-section. I already had the epidural in place (otherwise i never would have survived all morning!), so they just took me into the OR, upped the drug dose, and cut me open. Jarom stood by my side holding my hand and watching the action, and at 2:01pm, our little Emilie Anne was born! They held her up to let me see her (but all I saw were her little legs), but jarom got to hold her right away then brought her over so I could get a better look at her. She was crying pretty loud when she came out and was bright pink and looked so healthy! She weighed 8 lbs 9 oz and 22 inches long, and of course, we think she's just the cutest little thing ever!

She still has such a cute little cry and she doesn't like to be put down. She's a good nurser and sleeps really well during the day - we're working on sleeping at night too so that Mommy can get some rest too, but that may take a while. Isaac is still staying with Jarom's parents this week, but they brought him up on Monday night to meet her and just fell in love with her. He was so upset that we wouldn't let him hold her more and just wanted to examine her little hands and little face. I think he's going to be a good big brother, although it's going to take a lot of supervision so that he doesn't hurt her.

I think I'll be able to come home on Friday. I can be discharged on thursday, but I'm still in a fair amount of discomfort and could use an extra day recovering. But we will be home by this weekend for sure. We love this adorable little girl and are so excited that she's joined our family!

Here she is!


Daddy holding her. She's about 5 minutes old here.


Here's her proud big brother!