7 lbs, 4 oz. 19.5 inches long
So I realized that I have neglected to mention on LiveJournal that Zelly Zipporah was born on her due date, June 9th at 4am. She is healthy and warm and cuddly and adorable. She has a nice head of fuzzy hair. She is pinky. This is has been the best week of my life. Labor and delivery were quite difficult. She was born in the OP position, "sunny side up" as the nurse said, so she was born facing up instead of down. The back labor was intense. I pushed for almost exactly 4 hours, 3 hours and 45 minutes of which was after the first part of her head was showing. They offered to use a vacuum suction to help pull her out. I was able to turn down drugs and the suction, but said yes to the episiotomy that cut through some muscle (level 2 I guess). It was pretty painful and I'm still quite uncomfortable.
The happiness of holding her and looking at her, though, far outweighs the pain. At 4 days she was back to 2 oz shy of her birth weight.
The nurses at Overlake were amazing and heroic and awesome. They said that fewer than 5% of Overlake births are natural and the they were impressed with how alert Zelly was out of the womb. Seriously though, without awesome nurses I don't think it's possible to have a good birth experience.
It's hard for me to explain how much I think everyone should own a baby because they are the best.
More when I can keep my eyes open...
The happiness of holding her and looking at her, though, far outweighs the pain. At 4 days she was back to 2 oz shy of her birth weight.
The nurses at Overlake were amazing and heroic and awesome. They said that fewer than 5% of Overlake births are natural and the they were impressed with how alert Zelly was out of the womb. Seriously though, without awesome nurses I don't think it's possible to have a good birth experience.
It's hard for me to explain how much I think everyone should own a baby because they are the best.
More when I can keep my eyes open...