I wanted to have this documented so I can always remember the day I became a mommy.
So my blood pressure had been a little high towards the end of my pregnancy and I was worried about having a big baby because Eric weighed 10 lbs 3 oz when he was born. I have the best doctor ever and he said he would induce me on the 3rd if she didn't come before then. I was almost fully effaced and dialated to a 2.5 and he felt confident that my body would cooperate well with inducing. My official due date was 11/11 but I was done being pregnant and didn't care anymore if she had a cool birth date. So I quite workin on the 1st and just spent time getting the house ready and her nursery finished up. On the 2nd I cleaned the house top to bottom and finished getting my hospital bag ready so I would be ready in the morning to meet our little girl.
I had been having contractions throughout the day which was nothing new since I had been having contractions for the last 4-5 weeks of my pregnancy. That night as I was going to bed I started timing my contractions and they were about 3-5 minutes apart and were actually consistenly painful. That lasted for about 2 and a half hours so finally Eric told me to go shower so we could go to the hospital and see if anything was really happening. So I showered and we headed over to AF hospital at about 12:30.
We got there and they hooked me up for monitoring and I was dialated to a 3. The nurse acted like she didn't think they would keep me and I think she thought I was just trying to make sure I had the baby on the 3rd because I was 3rd on the induction list. After hanging out with some pretty painful contractions for an hour she checked me again and I was at a 3.5. She called the doctor on call and she told her to admit me. YAY! I was a little freaked out at this point because I was really going to have this baby soon and there was only one way she was coming out. At the same time I was very happy that my body was doing this on it's own and I wasn't going to be induced.
The nurse said I could get my epidural now or wait but that the anesethiologist was already out if bed so he would probably be happy if we had him do it now. I wasn't sure I wanted it yet because my contractions weren't too unbearable yet but I had them do it anyway. The epidural wasn't too painful but it was a really weird uncomfortable almost scraping on the spine and weird pressure, but after it kicked in I felt great and couldn't feel a thing.
The nurse said they would check me in about 2 hours to see where I was. So Eric and I just hung out and he tried to sleep but I couldn't really sleep. At one point the baby's heart rate dropped because the contractions were right on top of each other and they were about to give me medicine to slow my contractions down, but they put an internal monitor on me and her heart rate went back to normal. At this point I was a 4 or 5 I really can't remember.
They came back in about an hour later and checked me because I was feeling a lot of pressure down there and like I could feel the monitor moving down that was on babies head when I had contractions. I was at an 8 at about 6:00 or 7:00 AM. They asked if my water had broken and I told them no and they said the doctor probably woudn't come out of bed to break it and they would just wait until my doctor came by the hospital around 7:00 or 8:00 and he would break my water.
Dr. Jones showed up and checked me again at about 7:30 and I was at a 10 and ready to go. They said that because the internal monitor was on baby's head it would've broken my water but I probably didn't notice because it was a slow leak. Dr. Jones said to have me start doing some practice pushes and see how it goes so we started that at about 8:30.
At this point my epidural had worn off quite a bit. I was feeling a lot of pain from the contractions and primarily a lot of pain down by my inner hip where I think one of her shoulders was stuck or something. They had the anesthesiologist come in and give me more medicine directly into my epidural line and it helped for a little bit but eventually he ended up having to come back in 3 more times after that because the pain was so bad.
Pushing was hard. I pushed for about an hour and 45 minutes before baby girl joined our family. I felt alot of the delivery and could feel him stitching me up as well a little so that wasn't fun.
Baby girl wasn't crying and was pretty bluish and not breathing very well when she came out. The nurses worked on getting her to cry and breath better and came and put her on my chest for a few minutes so I could meet her before they had to rush her down to the nursery to get some help. Eric went downstairs with her and I was terrified. I just wanted her to be ok and didn't know what was wrong and just hoped everything was ok. They had to put her on an IV to help get her blood flowing and put her on a CPAP oxygen mask to help her breath on her own for about an hour and they they gave her a bath and after about 3 hours I was finally able to have my baby with me. They said that because of the long pushing it was a pretty stressful delivery for her so that is probably why she was having a hard time.
I loved her so much already and it is amazing how you just love and know this little one that has been growing inside of you for the past 9 months.
We had a hard time over the past few months thinking of a name that Eric and I both agreed on and we kind of hated each others names that we loved. Mya was on our list but it was never one that either of us loved or said much about we just liked it. After seeing her little face it thinking about it though it just feel into place that she is a little Mya. Jane is her middle name after my mom and sister.
It's been over a week since Mya got here and I love her more every day as I learn more about how to be a mommy. It's exhausting and a whole new world but I am so grateful that I get this chance and that I have my little miracle baby.
She has had a bit of a rough week since coming home. She wasn't pooping when we left the hospital and she wasn't getting much to help flush out her system since my milk hadn't come in yet and her jaundice test came back high the day we were leaving the hospital so the doctor wanted us to retest it the next day to see where it was at. It was still high so the doctor wanted us to start her on the Bilibed light therapy on Sunday to try to help her jaundice levels come down. We had to have her in this mini tanning bed thing and when she wasn't in there we had to have her with a mini blanket light under her onesie. We were supposed to keep her in the bed except for to feed and change her. We weren't very good about following this and just used the blanket light most of the time but finally yesterday we got good news that her levels were low enought that she could come off of the lights. It was such a relief and I'm hoping now that we have that over with we can get into a routine with sleep and all of that fun stuff.
I'm so happy to be a mom and for my little Mya.
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