Wow, I can't believe that we have had our sweet baby girl for over a week now! She is fantastic; she sleeps well and doesn't fuss much. We are working on breast feeding but I think we are going to be successful :)
I guess I should start at the beginning... After setting an induction date for Monday Feb 13 I was pretty disappointed, thinking that I wouldn't go into labor on my own because I had been in "early labor" for weeks and making NO progress. Much to our surprise things started moving on Wednesday the 8, I ended up being admitted to Labor and Delivery for low amniotic fluid levels and they were going to begin the induction process. After admitting me and giving me a dose of the ripening meds they spent an hour, 4 sticks, 2 nurses and 2 anesthesiologists to get an IV run....this is tied for the worst part of the whole experience! Not much happened until 1:30 AM Thursday, I began having contractions and by 3:00 was starting to dilate.... contractions got a lot worse very quickly but because of the low fluid levels they weren't checking me. I ended up trying Phentonol and Nubain for pain relief before asking for the epidural, Yay for being drugged it definitely made me capable of dealing with the epi needle! The nurse told us to get some sleep because Thursday was going to be a long day, they anticipated hanging the Pitocin around 8:00 and me being in labor well into the afternoon... So at about 7:00 Nicole, James and myself fell asleep. Shortly after hanging the Pitocin (8:30) Gribble began going into distress, when they checked to see what was going on they found out that I was fully dilated and ready to push. What happened to "get some sleep nothings gonna happen till this afternoon"?!?!? They wanted me to labor a little while longer to get Gribble into the best position, but not too long. By 10:00 there was a circus of nurses in the room setting up and by 10:57, 7 pushes later, I had Lillian Louise Williams in my arms. (BTW she was 7 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long)
After spending an extra day in the hospital because Lilly wasn't eating well we came home on Saturday. At her Doctors appointment the next day we learned that she had lost almost a pound and the doctor said we needed to stop working on breastfeeding and just focus on her eating. At the appointment the next day Dr. Huey was happily surprised to find Lilly had gained 4 oz, he had only expected 1-1.5 oz :) He told us that if she kept eating well that by this weekend we could go back to breast feeding and if necessary we could skip every other meal in order to make her eat from the "tap"...
Today we had a successful feeding session and I am very positive that she will figure it out :)
Before I move onto pics I must say that I appreciate all of the love an support from our friends and family :) Especially, Nicole who left took 2 days off work to be with me and James in the hospital, all of our parents and sisters for doting on us, my mom for being available a couple of times this week around 2 am, and my husband who (like I knew) is a great daddy and has been very helpful with Lilly.
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