Sophie's Here

I know it's been awhile since we've blogged but life has been a little crazy!! Baby Sophie has arrived! It was an interesting and fast arrival which ended up being great. My parents were here because we were thinking I was going to go into labor soon, it was a little risky though because it was still a week and a half early. I was having contractions on and off on Saturday but they weren't in my back or regular so everything indicated they were false contractions. The only thing was they were painful! So finally at about 3:15p I told Steve maybe we should go to the hospital, so we got there and I walked in used the restroom in the lobby and then headed upstairs. I told the nurses I thought I was in labor, which they looked at me like I was crazy but went ahead and put me in a room. Things started out slow - asking questions, putting on heart rate monitor and contraction monitor, then she left. She came back after about 10-15 min, I think she saw the contractions were coming on faster and stronger and she checked me, and realized I was 8 cm dilated. My only concern was the epidural, she told me to hold on while she got some help. Next thing we know it there is like 5 people in the room, I was asking Steve to you tube some contraction breathing because I was struggling. All the sudden they were pulling out the delivery stuff, it was this unspoken thing that I was not getting an epidural! Next problem there was no doctor, apparently they called the ER doctor who replied "it's been a long time since I've delivered a baby" (they didn't tell me that). But they found a different dr who just delivered another baby to come in. She broke my water and about one and a half pushes later she was here at 4:39p. It was crazy! I didn't think I could do it! But it was kind of nice not having all that anticipation time and waiting! Everything went great and she is beautiful! We love her so much! I thought I better get this written down before I forget! It will be fun to share this with Sophie some day!