I've been so busy with Rylee since she was born that I have neglected to blog about things going on with her. So excuse me while I play catch up.
We welcomed our beautiful baby girl, Saturday, September 13th at 10:15 am. She weighed 7 pounds 13 oz and was 21 inches long.
I went into labor Friday night at 11:30pm and labored at home until 2:00am. We arrived at the hospital at 2:30 where I found out I was already 4cm dilated! That's huge progress! I did end up getting the epidural because I wanted to enjoy the birth process and what was to change our lives forever.
About an hour or so after my epidural, they broke my water-I was already at an 8 when they broke it. I quickly progressed to a 10, but didn't start pushing because I wasn't completely effaced yet and they said it would be easier on me to push once I was. After what seemed like forever I started pushing. Half hour later and she was here! That made for 10 hours of labor and 30 minutes of pushing.
After an hour of recovery we went to the mother baby unit. Casey and I worked on breastfeeding her, skin to skin, and lots of cuddles. She wasn't a feeding champ and lost 10% of her body weight in a day and a half-which is bad. So the day after we got home from the hospital we had to take her to the ped to be checked. She also had slight jaundice so they checked her levels for that to.
Overall I had a great labor and delivery-very smooth and easy.
Some points on her newborn care:
She did get the vitamin k shot.
She did not get the hep b shot.
She did not get the eye ointment.
Now for a few pictures of the glorious day.
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