Finally a baby!
So,
I woke up early on Tuesday morning, went in to the hospital, went to work, then back to the hospital. Stayed overnight. I got there just before 8pm, stayed up working with her.
The pain finally got to her so she asked for an epidural....which didn't work. So she asked for another one. Which didn't work. The poor thing. At 3 or 4 we started making some real progress with dilation and the baby finally came at 5.32am. 6lbs 15oz. 9 and 9 for Apgar. Good scores. Then I went to work for 8.30am. So very very exhausted. Worked, left a little early, then slept for like 20 hours. Now I feel better.
I have to say I'm really disappointed in my Doula-ing. I felt so helpless, useless, like I didn't really do anything. I'm reconsidering my position...
Still trying to find my secret santa what he/she wanted. (I know Alex reads this and I don't want to give anything away. :P... ps. Alex I got you.. or is it Kyle?)
I dont think I can find it so I'm going for the back up thing instead.
I so want to be done x-mas shopping and move onto the baking part! I think I'm going to have an informal baking party at my place on Saturday.
We got the first real snowfall, which I'm actually pretty excited about. If the weather drops a little more we may be able to go skating on the Canal before February!
Well, I suppose that's it for now.
Starting work in an hour.
Yippie.
I woke up early on Tuesday morning, went in to the hospital, went to work, then back to the hospital. Stayed overnight. I got there just before 8pm, stayed up working with her.
The pain finally got to her so she asked for an epidural....which didn't work. So she asked for another one. Which didn't work. The poor thing. At 3 or 4 we started making some real progress with dilation and the baby finally came at 5.32am. 6lbs 15oz. 9 and 9 for Apgar. Good scores. Then I went to work for 8.30am. So very very exhausted. Worked, left a little early, then slept for like 20 hours. Now I feel better.
I have to say I'm really disappointed in my Doula-ing. I felt so helpless, useless, like I didn't really do anything. I'm reconsidering my position...
Still trying to find my secret santa what he/she wanted. (I know Alex reads this and I don't want to give anything away. :P... ps. Alex I got you.. or is it Kyle?)
I dont think I can find it so I'm going for the back up thing instead.
I so want to be done x-mas shopping and move onto the baking part! I think I'm going to have an informal baking party at my place on Saturday.
We got the first real snowfall, which I'm actually pretty excited about. If the weather drops a little more we may be able to go skating on the Canal before February!
Well, I suppose that's it for now.
Starting work in an hour.
Yippie.