She loves Beauty and the Beast! when Chris or I have a cup of coffee she BEGS for a sip! she loves to hide so you will say "where is Zoey" and she can jump out or pop up and grin! That baby girl brings me such joy each and every day!
Another big change, We have a new baby girl!! Isabelle Inara was born Thursday, January 17th at 8:24 in the evening! Weighing in at 8 pounds 5 oz an 20 & 1/2 inches long! Big sister Zoey LOVES HER!
This was taken the day we brought Isabelle home from the hospital.
We found out we were pregnant on Sunday June 14th, 2012. We got up early enough to go have breakfast as a family before church and I ordered the same omelet I always ordered from Susan's and I couldn't hardly eat any of it. I told Chris that I was feeling morning sicky and wondered if I was pregnant, he laughed and didn't seem too worried. After church we had lunch with his parents at Red Lobster and I couldn't eat my shrimp scampi so I made him stop at Walgreens on the way home so we could get a pregnancy test. Needless to say we were quite surprised!!
For the most part the pregnancy was pretty un eventful. There was an episode in October when the baby didn't move for 18 hours and I ended up in the ER for a couple of hours to be monitored. She was just having a lazy day and wanted to scare mommy.
On Friday, January 11th I started having pretty regular contractions that lasted all weekend but they weren't always consistent and were never super intense. I had them off and on from the following Monday until Thursday the 17th.
On the day I went into labor (the 17th) I had a doctors appointment at 8:45 in the morning. When Dr Reiter checked me I was at 3cm and between 70% and 80% effaced. He told me he didn't think I would make it to the end of the day. He offered to go ahead and have me admitted but I wasn't having contractions so I went home to get ready for work (I was working 11 to 3). When I got to work the girls surprised me with a food day!! We ate and I told them about my appointment and about how my contractions had picked back up around 10:00 and were more intense. I ended up going home at 1:15 and called Chris to come on home too.
We got to the hospital around 3:00 and I had progressed to 5 and a half cm! They had me fill out a pile of paperwork and stuck an IV in my hand before taking me to a room. I got my epidural between 5:00 and 5:30 and was about 7cm by that point.
My mom, auntie, sisters, brother and nephew came up to the hospital around 6:00 or so and took turns coming in to see me.
Close to 7:00 they put me on pitocin to get me from 9 to 10 cm. At around 7:30 the nurse had me roll over on my side because Isabelle's heart rate was slowing down during my contractions... That scared me but after rolling from my left to my right she did better!
By 8:00 I was feeling a major urge to push! I wasn't in pain (thanks to Dr. Taylor and his magical epidural) I just felt a lot of pressure and had to really fight the urge to push! I kept telling my nurse that I needed to push soon but she said that Dr Cunningham (the on call doctor) was about to be in surgery and I would have to wait a while... Uh no, this baby is coming! I told her I was really fighting the urge to push and she called Dr Taylor back in to give me more pain meds. When he came in he asked me if I was in pain and I said, "No, I feel pressure and I need to push! You might have to catch this baby." He and the nurse laughed and she told me that he had to be in that surgery too. Did nobody care that I was having a baby!? About that time Dr Cunningham came in and said something about the upcoming surgery and I said "I need to push NOW." The nurse checked me and Isabelle was less than an inch from crowning! Within minutes they were telling me to push. I pushed twice and she was out!
We spent Thursday and Friday night in the hospital before finally going home! I missed Zoey so much while we were at the hospital but she did get to visit twice.
Chris went to pick her up at his parents house after he dropped me and Isabelle off at home on Saturday afternoon. He sent me a picture of her at Walgreens while they were waiting for my prescription to be filled and I just broke down in tears because I had missed her so much! It was so good to have our little family all together!
In the past two weeks we have had so many friends come by to visit us and bring us meals and it has been such a blessing! We are truly a blessed family!!
That is all for now!
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