It's been a while!

OK - it's been more than a month. But it sure has been a busy month!!!! First - my birth story.

We went to labor and delivery at 7 am on Thursday Oct 4 to start the induction. They hooked me up to the pitocin around 9am and I started having noticable contractions early in the afternoon. They got pretty bad so they gave me a shot of phentanol (good stuff!!!) but by 5pm there had been no real progress so they unhooked me and had me stay the night so we could get started early the next morning. They hooked me back up to the pitocin at 5am on Friday morning. The contractions started coming a lot sooner and stronger and just before noon my water broke. Things really started moving along then and got extremely painful!! After 2 more doses of phentanol, I was still only dilated to about 3 cm. I was miserable and was having so much pain in my back. At 5pm they gave me the epidural so I could relax enough to finish dilating. Thank GOD for epidurals!!!!!!!!!! Dr. Feelgood is my new boyfriend:-) By 9pm I was ready to push and things got started. 4 1/2 hrs later (at 1:28am on Saturday October 6), Emily Grace arrived at 5lb 3oz and 18 1/2 inches long! They ended up giving me an episiotomy and suctioning her out and told me if she had been any bigger, I would have probably had to have a c-section. Evidently, I've got a teeny, tiny pelvis!

It's been a busy month and Emily turned 1 month old this past Tuesday. She's now wearing newborn clothes because her premie clothes are getting too short. She also fits into the newborn diapers now (she has no hiney!! She gets that from her Aunt Mindy!!!) I took her in for a weight check today and she's up to 8lb 10oz. What a little porker!

The picture at the beginning of this entry is her Halloween picture. She was piglet. Appropriate now that she's gained so much weight, don't you think??