birth story

We guessed it! Our baby GIRL, Anne Theresa Prevatt, was born on July 22 at 11:14 p.m. weighing 7 lb 3 oz and 21 inches long. Annie’s absolutely perfect and I am amazed by her and how much I love her – every motherhood cliché is true! There are no words to express how happy I am.

Here’s the story of Anne's birthday:
My BP was high, so Dr. C. decided to induce labor at 38 weeks, 6 days. I went in to be induced at 7:30 a.m. The nurse checked me and I was 1 cm dilated so she started pitocin at 8. Dr. C. came in around 9 and broke my water. I asked him not to because I wanted to see how/if I would progress but he talked me into so we did it. Around noon, I was about 3 cm and feeling mostly back contractions, not too intense. Well, I stayed at 3 cm basically all afternoon. They checked me at 5 and I was 5 cm but the baby’s head hadn’t descended at all. They had put an internal monitor in and I was on a lot of pit, and by this point I was not comfortable. I was contracting hard and frequently, but I just wasn’t progressing like the doc wanted. I finally got the epidural around 7, and I was only 6 cm. At 8 the doc wanted to do a caesarean as the head was still way up there, and I told him no. He gave me until 10:30 and there was no change so c-section it was. I guess my body just wasn’t ready for labor in the first place. I thought the c-section it was absolutely terrifying. I was shaking like crazy and my teeth were chattering uncontrollably.

Annie is perfect, though, and I am feeling pretty good. Chris has been absolutely fantastic and is doing/saying all the right things. Overall, I am sore, tired, emotional, and feeling a bit like a milk cow, but nothing is unexpected and I am just feeling so lucky.

More to come and pictures! I have got to come up with an easier way of getting my pictures off our camera. It is such an ordeal that I just don't want to spend the time doing it.