Abigail Is Here

Abigail was originally suppossed to arrive on October 12th but due to decreasing amniotic fluid levels and my health suffering the doctor, Shawn and I decided to begin inducing her Thursday October 9 at 8pm so she most likely would have been born Friday night october 9 or Saturday October 10. However, when I went in for my pre-testing on Tuesday October 6, the doctor became concerned about my failing health and stressing out Abigail so he sent me directly to labor and delivery to start the induction. At first he put this tape around my cervix with prostoglandins in it that are suppossed to soften the cervix. I allegedly had some small contractions but luckily never felt even one. Then after twelve hours of the tape, I was started on Pitocin, which starts contractions of the uterus. Again, I was contracting but not feeling them. However my hips began to hurt and due to the Pitocin I was forced to lie still in the bed so they could monitor Abigail. I just could not get comfortable and I was starting to get very irritated so Shawn and I decided to go for an epidural to make me comfortable. We would need the epidural anyways for the c-section if that was needed later. That was the best decision we made as I was able to relax. Finally, after about 18 hours of "laboring", Abigail's heart rate started to decelerate slightly when I was contracting, and still only barely 2cm dilated, so we went with the c-section. What an extremely strange feeling knowing people are cutting you open but not being able to feel it at all. I got kind of scared but all went great and out came Abigail, gorgeous and perfect, and yelling plus starving!! She took to breast feeding great and sleeps for hours at a time until we wake her up to eat. SHE IS SO PRECIOUS!!