Lyla's a month and I am just now sitting down to blog about her arrival!
It all started on Sunday March 28th. I started having contractions every 5 minutes around 2 I had them for a good 2 hours before I called the doctor. He wanted me to go in right away since it was my second baby. At the hospital they put me in the "lets wait and see room" I was progressing slowly but enough that the nurse admitted me. Things went slowly until my doctor broke my water. I had gotten an epideral before hand, I guess he knew it would go quickly so he wanted me to be nice and numb. In an hour and a half I went from 4cm to 10cm. Needless to say my epideral wasn't helping with contraction pain. So it was time to push, I pushed and I pushed and Lyla was facing up. She wasn't moving out like she was supposed to. So after an hour and half of pushing, the doctor tried to vacuum her out and told me that if it didn't work I would HAVE to get a c-section. I was terrified, I didn't want a c-section especially since I had been pushing for so long I wanted to do it myself. But, I knew he was doing what was best for the baby and myself. So he vacuumed her and she wouldn't budge. It was off to the operating room. That was the weirdest experience, as they were wheeling me down the hall I would have painful contractions and the nurse said I could push if it helped. So I did cause they were horrible but it was weird pushing to no result. In the operating room they got her out and the pressure you hear about wasn't bad at all. I was expecting it to be worse. She came at 2:54 am on Monday March 29th. They let me see her immediately and then cleaned her up, got her out and into the nursery. This part was hard, with Lucy I was able to hold her immediately and nurse her as soon as she'd been cleaned up. With Lyla I had to stay and be put back together so I missed out on that experience. They got me into recovery and the a nurse brought Lyla to me to nurse. I wasn't able to move so it was difficult but it was the bonding that I needed to have! I was thankful for that. We finally were all in my room at 5 am. We were all exhausted but doing fine! Lyla ended up being jaundice so she had to go under the lights, but that was the worst that we experienced during our stay at the hospital!
Lyla weighed 7lbs and 9oz and was 20inches long.
