As most of you know we welcomed our sweet girl, Anna Louise Scow, this morning at 1:21 am. She weighs 6 lbs 6 oz and is 19 3/4 inch long. She is perfect and we are in love with her.
Yesterday we went to my 37 week appointment, I was dialated to a 4 and 80% effaced. My awesome doctor, Dr. Ott, swept my membranes and said it should help keep things moving along but it's up to Anna to come. We went home not expecting too much.
Around 7 pm I started having hard, consistent contractions. We didn't want to go to the hospital for a while because of all the false alarms we have had. After 2 hours of hard contractions we decided to head to the hospital. When we got there I was still at a 4 and the nurse told us she was only going to monitor me for 20 minutes and then send me home. Luckily, Dr. Ott was there and saw how consistent my contractions were and instructed her to keep us for an hour. By the time the hour was up I dialated from a 4 to a 5 and they told us they were keeping us and we were having a baby tonight!
We contacted my parents, sister in law and photographer to let them to what was going on. We planned on calling the rest of the phone tree but things started to move very fast.
They got us into another room, hooked me up to petocin and broke my water. With in 20 minutes of the petocin my contractions were 30 seconds apart and my natural birth went out the window and I told Riley I needed the epidural, yesterday!
It took a good 30 minutes to get the epidural in and numbing me correctly because they just changed the way epidural are done. Once I was pretty numb and comfortable they checked me for dialtion and I was at an 8! They left the room for us to relax and with in 3 minutes I yelled for my photographer to grab a nurse because I could feel her coming.
A nurse came in, checked me and said, "She's not falling out yet, close your legs while we grab the doctor." Then she physically closed my legs and had me roll over and breathe through the contractions. Nurses started rushing around and Dr. Ott came in.
I really loved the team that I was set up with and I especially loved having Dr. Ott there in delivery. He was very calming, quiet and supportive. He coached me through the contractions and what muscles to use.
Our photographer, Dez, was amazing. She was so fun to have there but when we got down to the nitty gritty she almost completely disappeared and was so respectful of the moment Riley and I were having.
Riley was a champ, he kept me focus and kept encouraging me and comforting me.
10 minutes and 8 pushes later Anna arrived! She was beautiful and perfect!
This all happened so quickly that my mom and sister missed it by 9 minutes!
Thank you for all the love and support from everyone!!
