Lilly Rae

Lilly decided to come to us. As kristofer said he came home from work and I told him I'd been leaking fluid since about noon. We called Labor and Delivery and they said "sound like your water broke you need to come in and get checked." So we got the bag ready andthe anesthes took the trip to the hospital. The ran a few tests and said "yep your water has been ruptured. We are going to put you on some meds to start contractions and get this going"

So the gave me the meds and i planned on going all natural. I did that for about two hours and I looked at Kris and said "i dont think think i can do this, Will you get the nurse and an epidural?" The nurse brought in the anesthesiologist and i was more scared for that than anything else (so far) i sat on the bed and they put in the numbing solution, then missed their 'target' so had to do it again and got it the second time. that kicked in and i was feeling a lot better. But the they put in a catheter which made me VERY uncomfortable. so i didnt sleep all night. Then in the morning i was still not feeling progress, they checked me and opened the cervix, about two hours later i got really bad pressure and cramps.

The doctor came in checked me and said "are you ready to push?" i said "um.... yep?" they got me all ready, took me back to the OR got us all set up. then after about 4 contractions she was out and CRYING, they showed her to me and took her behind me. She weighed 3 lbs 15 oz she was 17 inches long. Kris got to watch what they were doing she struggled with breathing for just a minute, they got her breathing nice and strong. i was taken back to my room and they took Lilly to the NICU.

i came back to my room and my mom was there, had to wait about an hour for my legs to wake up. Durring that time Kris and my mom went and saw Lilly, they came back and i was able to 'walk' to a wheelchair, so they took my mom and i down to NICU to see my baby girl. she look great, she was on the oxygen, but still looked very good. I talked to her and she talked back to me and held my little finger for a while.

We are just waiting to see how she does through the nigh, they are going to try taking her off her oxygen, if she can do without, if she can then we work on feeding. We need to make sure she can suck, if she does well she should be home soon!

We will keep everyone updated as well as we can.

Love you all.