Sunday, August 5, 2007

She's Here!

Lindsey Marie DeVol is finally here! I went in on Sunday evening to be induced and as of Monday night nothing was happening. Soooo I ate some stromboli and George went home for a shower and to grab a couple things. That is apparently what Lindsey was waiting for. George left around 9pm and by 10 the nurse was calling him telling him to come back and I was sadly saying goodbye to my stromboli (I may never eat a stromboli again). Around 11 the nurse checked me and still I wasn't progressing so she gave me some medicine that would work for 3 hours and then I could have more. By 12:30 I was begging for more which she gave me at 1:30. By 2:30 I was up rocking and breathing through contractions. Around 3:30 I started begging for something for the pain. The nurse said she wasn't authorized to give me anything else but she would check and see if anything was going on and then maybe I could have an epidural. Well, I was 5cm so she called the anesthesiologist and the doc and told them both to come on back. I never did get the epidural because in the next 30 min. I dialated the remaining 5cm. My doctor got there at 4:10 and Lindsey was born at 4:16.
She is beautiful, of course. She weighed 8lbs 2oz (2oz less than Christin) and was 20.5 inches. She is doing great. She lost a little too much weight and was a little jaundice so she goes to the doctor tomorrow but she seems to be gaining now and looks less jaundice so we aren't concerned. Christin adores her! She constantly wants to hold her and kiss her. When she wakes up in the morning she right away comes in to say hi to Lindsey and give her a kiss. She always calls her "baby sister" or "my baby" instead of Lindsey. She was a little annoyed that she didn't have blonde hair like her but she seems to have gotten over it. We are all doing great and happy to be home.
Thanks to everyone for your prayers and support!

PS. Congrats to Alicia on guessing the name so early! What made you guess that?!?!?!

2 comments:

Alicia said...

I'm just a good guesser. :-)

Megella said...

Love you labor story.

Congrats on getting through without the epidural. Girl power! (I believe I was contemplating bribing the nurse with whatever money I had in my purse when they pronounced me ready to push and 'go natural'...but we'll go with the girl power story.)

She looks beautiful, we can't wait to meet her.
~ Meg

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