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Dec. 7th, 2007 09:16 pmso she's here!
they induced Melissa at around 6am on Wednesday. They put three pills in her (4 hours apart). her blood pressure was high so instead of sending her home when there was no dilation they kept her overnight. thursday night at around 4am her water broke and she dilated to 3cm that's why Mark and I came out to PA.
crap happened at the hospital. we left. cooked at the restaurant and generally helped out there. dad, mark, and i went out to dinner and got a call from my mom around 10 that she hadnt dilated to more than 6cms and her blood pressure and liver enzyme levels were getting really high so they were nervous and just going to go ahead with the c-section. we rushed over there. she had already been wheeled into the operating room but paul was still waiting to go in and as much as i hate him i pushed it all aside and told him to tell melissa to do good and give her hand a squeeze from me.
i'll give him credit because the first thing he said to her when he walked in to the OR was that i was there and wished her luck and we'd be waiting.. apparently she was happy to know we were there and that helped her a bunch. after she was done and they rolled her into the recovery room i really wanted to see her but i figured it would be nice to let our parents in first lol and they didn't want us all bum rushing her. but she was asking for me so i got to go in and see that she was all okay so i could stop worrying. she was so bloated from all the fluids and everything (and the fact that she was or almost was pre-eclamptic) she woulda given angelina jolie a run for her money with her hugeass lips.
so after almost 40 hours of labor and then a c-section where she apparently lost a ton of blood and didn't go as smoothly as it could have.. the baby is here!
Born at around 11:10pm on December 6th. She was 7lbs even and 19.25" long.
Here's baby Rebecca Elizabeth:
this was her when Melissa was kind of trying to breastfeed.. i cut out all boobie parts though. she's staring right up at her mom! she's really alert for only being like 12 hours old, i was surprised.
when she first came out.. they took the baby out and we saw her and all took pics in the hallway before they fully cleaned and got all her measurements. i look at her and then turn to my dad and i'm like she's beautiful don't get me wrong.. but her head isn't gonna always be like that right?? it was funky looking.. reminded me of a dinosaur. apparently it's because she was trying to squirm her way down to be a reg birth but looks like she kinda got stuck.. anyway here's that pic where she's still kinda goopy too:
but by today she was definitely looking much better so that's good.. one last pic:
they induced Melissa at around 6am on Wednesday. They put three pills in her (4 hours apart). her blood pressure was high so instead of sending her home when there was no dilation they kept her overnight. thursday night at around 4am her water broke and she dilated to 3cm that's why Mark and I came out to PA.
crap happened at the hospital. we left. cooked at the restaurant and generally helped out there. dad, mark, and i went out to dinner and got a call from my mom around 10 that she hadnt dilated to more than 6cms and her blood pressure and liver enzyme levels were getting really high so they were nervous and just going to go ahead with the c-section. we rushed over there. she had already been wheeled into the operating room but paul was still waiting to go in and as much as i hate him i pushed it all aside and told him to tell melissa to do good and give her hand a squeeze from me.
i'll give him credit because the first thing he said to her when he walked in to the OR was that i was there and wished her luck and we'd be waiting.. apparently she was happy to know we were there and that helped her a bunch. after she was done and they rolled her into the recovery room i really wanted to see her but i figured it would be nice to let our parents in first lol and they didn't want us all bum rushing her. but she was asking for me so i got to go in and see that she was all okay so i could stop worrying. she was so bloated from all the fluids and everything (and the fact that she was or almost was pre-eclamptic) she woulda given angelina jolie a run for her money with her hugeass lips.
so after almost 40 hours of labor and then a c-section where she apparently lost a ton of blood and didn't go as smoothly as it could have.. the baby is here!
Born at around 11:10pm on December 6th. She was 7lbs even and 19.25" long.
Here's baby Rebecca Elizabeth:
this was her when Melissa was kind of trying to breastfeed.. i cut out all boobie parts though. she's staring right up at her mom! she's really alert for only being like 12 hours old, i was surprised.
when she first came out.. they took the baby out and we saw her and all took pics in the hallway before they fully cleaned and got all her measurements. i look at her and then turn to my dad and i'm like she's beautiful don't get me wrong.. but her head isn't gonna always be like that right?? it was funky looking.. reminded me of a dinosaur. apparently it's because she was trying to squirm her way down to be a reg birth but looks like she kinda got stuck.. anyway here's that pic where she's still kinda goopy too:
but by today she was definitely looking much better so that's good.. one last pic:
