Bailey's Birthday!

So, I know it's a little late, but I have been a little busy- HAVING A BABY! I went into the doctor on August 19 and was dilated to almost a 5 so they admitted me to augment my labor. By noon I was admitted with an IV. They started pitocin (a drug to make me contract) and then it started getting intense! Not the most horrible pain ever but I knew it was time to ask for my epidural! So, in walks my nurse and the anesthesiologist and I got seriously scared. I dont know if it was because I've seen a million of these done at OU and so I know what happens and how big that needle is or what, but I was a little freaked. They made Jake sit in a chair while they were doing it and I made him move over more to the front of me so he couldnt see the HUGE needle that they were about to poke into my spine. (eek!) I felt the burn of the lidocaine and that was it. No big deal. It was super easy. Then my legs started feeling funny. I could still move them for a little while but I couldnt feel them...totally a weird sensation. Not one that I liked very much but at least my contractions were no longer painful. After a while, my Team Bailey started showing up to give me the support that I needed. I was doing good tho...I even did my make-up with the help of my older sister holding a mirror for me. (lol) Then I started feeling some pain in the right lower part of my abdomen. It freakin hurt. I told my nurse and they bolused some more epidural. My nurse came in a little while later and I was still hurting. She checked me and I was a 7. Pain still there, she turned me to my right side to help gravity move the epidural to work better. It helped. So, I'm laying there and I start feeling that pressure everyone talks about. I call my nurse and she checks me and I am complete...within an hour or so from being a 7 - I was ready to have a baby. FREAKY! I didnt want to do it anymore. I'd been working so hard, walking everyday with Jen, sittin on a birthing ball, eating pancakes - all to have a baby and now the time was here and I didn't want it at all. The fear of the unknown sucks!

So, Jake calls everybody back to the hospital and my nurse calls my doctor. My doctor was in surgery so we did some practice pushes. It wasnt so bad - Actually not so bad at all. Pushed with my nurse until the point of no return and then we waited. Waited for the doctor and pushed through one contraction and my precious Bailey was here. It's so weird - one minute she is inside me making me miserable and the next she is here and making me cry. It was the easiest delivery I could have asked for. I was scared for nothing.

So, August 19, 2010 at 10:26 pm Jake and I gave birth to our beautiful Bailey Rachelle. She was 8 lbs 15 oz, 21 1/2 inches long. I have never been so happy and was so happy to share that moment with my husband and best friend. Seeing Jake hold his baby girl was priceless.

All in all - it was an amazing experience. I am so happy that my friends and family could be there to welcome Bailey into this world. And I wish that my family who wasnt there could have been!

Waiting for Bailey!

So, I asked my lovely sister, Sharon, who is a blogaholic to build us this blog so I could write about all the cute and adorable things my daughter is doing and everybody could see it! I can't guarantee that I will be that great at posting things because I had another blog that I havent touched since August of last year. (oops) So I figured now I would kinda give you the scoop on the last 9 months!!!

December 2009 ~ I graduated Nursing School and Jake and I headed off to Cancun!!! It was a DREAM vacation that was much needed and very deserved for both Jake and me! So, I get there...have a mimosa and figure out that I was "late." (There went my drinking for the week on the beach- not that i drink a lot but I just really have liked mimosas lately) Sooo, then Jake and I finally get home after being stranded in Houston Christmas Eve and Christmas Day and I take a pregnancy test the next day, thinking- there is no way Jake and I are pregnant...and Boom - a positive sign. 3 home tests and a Dr. appt. later our due date was set for August 28th! Unreal-Unbelievable-the best day of my life!!!

1st Trimester~ Not horrible...had to eat bland food every few hours or I would feel sick. Only got sick a handful of times. Was definately fatigued but overall - not horrible. My leg started going numb which was annoying and then would ache - which was more annoying...but still not a bad first trimester!

2nd Trimester ~ I felt better - more energy- no sickness- the one thing was my nerve...she (yes this was the trimester we found out Bailey was a girl) was sittin on a nerve that made my leg hurt where it was numb to the touch, but felt like i had Road Rash constantly. It was so painful. that lasted for about 2 months or so and then boom - one day it was gone!!! So all in all - not a bad 2nd trimester!

3rd Trimester~ Awesome! huge- dont fit into anything!!! Have 2 shirts that actually fit me that I can wear to work (lovely) and starting to be all tired again! No energy. A belly is really hard to lug around, but totally worth it! I hit 34 weeks and started contracting - they had me on bedrest for week 35 and 36 and now i am in week 37 and she is allowed to come whenever she wants and she's just not! I am so antsy just to hold her and see how beautiful she is. I want to see if she has Jake's ears. I am ready to see Jake hold his little girl for the first time. I'm scared to go through the labor and want to get it over with, but after 4 days of walking, sitting on a birthing ball, doing stairs and now I'm about to try BLACK licorice (Yuck) she still isn't coming out! Ugh!!!

So, that is my pregnancy up to date~ I have an awesome family, husband and friends who have all been so supportive no matter how hard its been. And I am looking forward to seeing everyone at the hospital in their "Team Bailey" shirts supporting me when I need it most! For those of you who don't make it to the hospital - I will let ya know when we are settled at home and you can come see Bailey, Jake and me. I can't wait to share my little girl with the world.