Desiree Lynn

Our new baby girl was born on Monday August 2, 2010. She was 7 lbs 15 oz and 21 inches long.

I went into the doctor on Monday and they said I was dialated to 4cm and they couldn't let me go into the hospital until I had consistant labor patterns. So I left home and waited until I was having normal contractions. I had them for about 2 hours at 4 pm and we drove ourselves down to the hospital. We checked into the hospital at 5 and they said they would monitor me for an hour.

My doctor came in about 6:15 and he said that I was about 4 1/2 cm and he didn't want to break my water when it was so late and night. He didn't really want to be up all night. He did anyway because Terrell wouldn't be available for the next week to be with me. They said they would be upstairs right away to give me my epidural. 2 hours later, they came up with my epidural. I was already dialated to a 7. That was fun having to do that by myslef considering that I do not have any tolerance for pain. Blah!!!

So I finally got my epidural and then at about 9 pm I was feeling so much pressure like I had to go to the bathroom and my nurse checked my and I was completely dialted. My doctor said that I did very good in my labor and he was proud of me for not taking all night. I started pushing at 9:20 in she was born at 9:29. Terrell said I was losing my touch, Owen was only 7 min!!

The only bad thing about about the labor was that they stuck the epidural needle in too far the first time and puntured my spinal cord so it made some spinal fluid leak out. It caused me to have massive headaches and throw up so they did what is called a blood patch and they draw blood from my arm and they inject it onto me spinal cord to stop the fluid. My back to way sore but the headaches are gone. So I might think about not having an epidural next time but we will see.

She is very cute and we love her to death. Owen is doing great with her too. Her are some of my favorite newborn pictures that they took at the hospital.