On Oct 12th at 6:30pm, I had just finished making dinner and had it on the stove to cool. I went to the dryer and grabbed a load of laundry. Just as I was in the middle of the kitchen my water broke. At first I didn't know what to think. Then I didn't know what to do. I had my arms full of laundry and we had just had the carpets cleaned so going from the kitchen to the bathroom required going over carpet. So I sort of ran past the couch and threw the laundry down on my way to the bathroom to check to see if it really was my water. I cleaned my self up and went to the garage to let Jimmy know what happened. He was stunned like me, after all she wasn't due for another two and a half weeks!
After all the childbirth classes and hospital tour you would think we would remember what to do but in those moments you can't think of anything. I wasn't contracting so I told Jimmy that I wanted to eat first because they told us that once you check in the hospital that they won't feed you in labor. Then I wanted to take a shower. Jimmy was working with his brother in the garage and they were right in the middle of something that required both of them so I told him to finish up in the garage, he need to eat dinner as well and he wanted to take a shower too. We also realized I never got a picture of my pregnant belly so as we are heading out the door we snapped some belly shots too! At 8pm we finally headed to the hospital.
When I checked in my water had definitely broke. After all I had continuously had water leaking this whole time, and I was dilated 4cm. (By the way, by the end of labor I had probably lost near 3 liters of "water"!) But I wasn't feeling any contractions yet.
At 6 am - I still wasn't really feeling contractions. They were still just 10 mins apart and no worse then pain level 5. Plus I had only dilated to 6cm. But because it had been 12 hours since my water broke the midwife and I decided to start antibiotics and pitocin. Thankfully they gave me a sandwich too since I wasn't in active labor still.
At 9 am - Contractions were coming closer together but still weren't painful at all. I was informed that if I wanted my epidural that I should get it soon since there were three c-sections scheduled that morning and if I didn't get it soon then it might be the afternoon before I get it. My strongest contraction had been about a 6 at that point but I didn't want to wait and regret it later. So they gave me the epidural. Which wasn't painful either. They gave me a local first which hurt at bad as the IV. And then I never felt anything afterwards. Unfortunately they had me sitting too low in the bed so the epidural moved up to my respiratory system causing it to dilate and my blood pressure to drop. To counteract this they raised me up in bed and made me wear an oxygen mask the rest of the time in labor.
It was about 4:30ish when the midwife informed us that I was finally at 9 cm and that I should be ready to go soon.
At 5:00ish I started pushing with Jimmy holding one leg and my Mom and Jimmy's mom, Marie, took turns holding my other leg. But the oxygen mask was making me lightheaded so in the middle of pushing I threw up. Which my midwife congratulated me on since she said this will help push the baby out.
On October 13th at 5:19pm, Emily Marie Robitaille was born. 7lbs, 4oz. 19.5 inches long. Jimmy and I were so happy we cried. Daddy cut the cord and even got a lesson in the placenta. I declined. I just wanted to see my new little girl.
Baby Shower
Well, first of all I have to say a HUGE thank you to my Baby Shower hosts: Becky (my sister) and Robin (my best friend). They put together a fabulous shower at the Central Park Center in Rancho Cucamonga.
They really did everything to make this day really special to me. Jimmy even got a gift of his own - his very own Daddy Toolkit!
Emily received so many generous gifts and adorable clothes that it blew me away!
Here is the infamous belly shot - the start of my 9th month!
More pictures available in the Photo Album!
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