Tuesday September 1, 2015 was a regular old day of me feeling like this baby was never going to come! Went to playgroup in the morning, chased after Charlie, went to the park that afternoon, etc. I did have a doctors appointment earlier that afternoon though, and at it she checked me and I was 5cm dilated, which still boggles my mind since I hadn't had any contractions or cramping at all! (I was admitted at 3cm with Charlie, and that was after having contractions for like 16 hours - although they were more like cramps and less like contractions... ok this isn't about Charlie's birth I know!)
I had been 4cm at my appointment on Friday though, and all the ladies at the office were like "oh we'll see you on the weekend to have this baby!" and nothing had happened (which was actually quite annoying - they had gotten my hopes up!) I was beginning to think being dilated that much meant nothing....
Until 11:45pm that night! I had been asleep for at least an hour and had been having dreams of contracting, until I woke up and realized they weren't dreams! And things were a little wet... so I thought my water had broken. (Which I found out later was my hind water not my actual water) I started timing them and they started getting faster and closer, by the time we got to the hospital (at around 12:30ish) they were getting pretty bad - way worse than they ever were with Charlie because at this point with him I had an epidural in! Anyways, the nurse hooks me up to the machine to monitor my contractions to make sure I was "really in labour" and I said "give me an epidural now! I was already 5cm this afternoon!!!"
So then she had to call my obstetrician to verify who would then call the anesthesiologist in... that's one bad thing about a private hospital - no doctors are there during the night! So I had to wait for what felt like forever for the OB to call the Anesthetist who had to wake up and get dressed and drive to the hospital to come and give me the epidural.... luckily I had some gas to keep me company while I waited. And can I just say I love gas... it didn't take the pain away at all, but it just made me not care about it. Anyways, I'm getting long-winded here. So the guy came (he looked like Santa by the way, huge white beard - I'm surprised I didn't tell him so in my gas-induced state!)
I love Epidurals and my advice to everyone is to get one as soon as they let you! Andrew and I both got to have a little nap (about an hour long) and my real water broke while I was sleeping.
By this time the midwife thought I was ready to start pushing and the OB was on her way. So I did a couple of pushes and I guess baby didn't like that because she started freaking out and her heart rate dropped, and the midwife started throwing around words like "emergency c-section" and "get the on-call dr up here now in case something happens!" So that was a little worrisome...!!!! But things calmed down a few minutes later and the OB arrived and a few rounds of (weird) pushing later Andrew got to deliver Elly! (With the doctors direct supervision of course - they wanted to give him the experience since he's a medical student and all, which I thought was really nice!) I say weird pushing because with Charlie, I could feel all the pressure so I could tell how I was supposed to be pushing. With Elly I was completely numb, could feel nothing, so even though they were telling me to push I was trying but couldn't tell at all what I was doing! I eventually figured out a way they said was working, but it was so odd...
Ellyria Edna Cahoon
September 2, 2015
5:01am
8lbs 5oz
3790 grams
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| Elly and I were both in a bit of shock here... |
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| So cute! |
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| First bath! She did not approve... |
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| post-bath |
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| Charlie meeting Elly for the first time! He was a little unsure... |
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| So cute! Love these two |
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| You can't see it very well but Charlie is giving Elly a kiss! |
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| Grandma and Elly |
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| Newborn! |
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| Hanging out at the hospital |
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| The Friday after Elly was born Charlie had a special father-son playgroup session where they played soccer! Everyone got a medal and Charlie loved it! (or so I heard...!) |
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| Charlie liked hanging out in the closet and looking at himself in the mirror! |
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| Charlie loved bringing his car mat to play with! |
SO we had some visitors! Shazra visited, and earlier that day so did Nima and Sibgat! It was really nice to have visitors, and Nima brought his camera to take some better pictures than our phones were taking!
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| I seriously love his smile! |
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| Nima |
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| Sibgat |
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| Charlie's favourite thing to do - eat my food! |
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| She makes the funniest faces
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| Leaving the hospital |
