.: Ellie is Here

When I woke up the morning of the 8th I could not walk. On Tuesday the 6th I was dilated to a 4 plus so I knew I would be having her soon. Braden stayed home from work to take care of Kaden because I really could barely hobble around let alone take care of my crazy Kaden. I wasn't having contractions so I didn't want to go in because I had been in earlier that week and my contractions weren't consistant enough to keep me even though I was at a 4. Lisa asked me if I had called my Doctor to tell him that I couldn't walk and see what he wanted me to do. For some odd reason before she said I should call my doctor I didn't even think about calling him. And I didn't call him for another 3 or so hours after lisa said I should. When I called my the doctor he told me to come to their office and they would track my contractions to see what was going on. I was hooked up to the machine for probably 20 min and it showed that I was just having a constant contraction that wasn't very hard. My doctor checked me and I was at at 5+ so he called the hospital and said I would be coming over to have my baby. I was in shock at that point because I really didn't think I would be having her that day. I went to the doctors office by myself and I just figured they would give me some pain meds or something and send me home. I was trying to be really brave as I drove myself over to the hospital and walked in by myself. Once I got in the gown and on the bed I lost it. I was so sad that I didn't get to tell Kaden bye and that I love him. I'm not sure the rules on having 18mo olds in labor and delivery but when Braden got there he snuck Kaden in so I could tell him bye. When my nurse checked probably 40 min after Dr. Chalmers checked me I was at a 6+. I labored for 2 hours without an epidural. and finally at a 7+ I got my epidural and things were great for about 30 min. I started feeling a lot of cramping on my right side so my nurse told me to dose my epidural a couple of times to see if that would help. It didn't help and it had been about 2 hours since I had been checked and since I had the epidural. When my nurse finally went to check me she opened my legs and ellie was about to come out. She hurried and called for Dr. Chalmers and within 10 min I was getting ready to push. Before I started pushing, Dr. Chalmers told me to sit up a little bit, and when I did Ellie popped out. It was a very easy and laid back delivery. Ellie came out very healthy. Her pediatrician thought she might be at risk for a high bilirubin since our blood types are different, but she was just fine. We are so grateful Ellie is here and we love her so much!