Little miss Sophia Ann was born on November 7, 2013 at 7:56 AM. She weighed 6 pounds 9 ounces and measured 20 inches long.
People tell us she's pretty cute and we tend to agree :)
I'll go ahead and do the best I can to give you all the birth story (this is Courtney btw). I'm sure I'll get a few details wrong, but here we go anyways!
Last Wednesday we went to our regular OB appointment and Jamie was 2 centimeters dilated. The doctor stripped Jamie's membranes really well and was hoping that that alone would send her into labor, but poor little Jamie was so ready to meet our little girl that she started crying and asked what they could do about induction. SO we were told to be at the hospital that night at 8:00 and they would be giving her cervidil. Now cervidil is only supposed to thin the cervix out for labor so it was the general consensus that after 12 hours on the cervidil, they would be giving her pitocin to start labor. The doctor informed us that only about 20% of women go into labor after getting cervidil so we were sure that she would be getting the pitocin the next morning. We go all checked in and she ended up getting the cervidil around 9:30. It was Jamie, myself and her mom in the room and we decided to grab some sleep afterwards. We all woke up around 1:00 when Jamie started having intense contractions. They started to be 7-8 minutes apart, but quickly went to about 3 minutes apart after that and were very painful for her. One of the nurses wanted to pull the cervidil, but they left it in so she would continue contracting. The contractions got so intense that Jamie was vomiting with every contraction and shaking uncontrollably and ended up getting an IV injection or morphine for that pain. She figured out that it did pretty much nothing to help with the pain so around 3 centimeters she ended up getting an epidural. Now I was just sure that they were supposed to pull the cervidil when she got the epidural, but they did not do that and quickly after getting the epidural hers and Sophia's stats started dropping. Jamie's blood pressure went down to something around the 80s/30s and Sophia's heart rate dropped down to the 80s. At this point her mom and myself were sure that she would be getting an emergency c-section. After about 5 minutes of that they started changing Jamie's position and put gas on her to try to improve the situation, but ended up pulling the cervidil and everything got better soon after that. Now after this her dilation progressed just as quickly and the doctor came to check on her around 6:00 and said that she was around 7. By 7:00 she was fully dilated and ready to push. She began pushing a little after 7 due to shift change. Funny, huh? She didn't push long before little girl was born and everything ended up being just fine. We should not have been surprised by this little booger being dramatic, but all is well and we got to take her home on Saturday. Now the fun baby updates begin!
Until next time..
