{"id":10869,"date":"2009-01-06T21:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todayslegacy.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/06\/sunday-night-contractions-bring"},"modified":"2009-01-06T21:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T02:18:00","slug":"sunday-night-contractions-bring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/2009\/01\/06\/sunday-night-contractions-bring\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Contractions bring…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Monday morning baby.<\/p>\n

Announcing … <\/p><\/div>\n

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Rachael Elizabeth<\/span><\/b> <\/div>\n

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born Monday, January 5 at 3:33am.
She was 8 lbs and 14.9 oz. And 21.25 inches long. <\/span>
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She has big feet and a full head of brown hair that is very easily styled into a Mohawk<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I think she has her daddy’s nose. Daddy says she has my beauty. And we’re just happy as anything that she appears to have our easy-going-ness<\/span>.<\/p>\n

As of this post time she is officially over 24 hours old and going on 48 hours old. According to doctor’s reports we all should be going home tomorrow “after breakfast.”<\/p>\n

As for the laboring, we went to hospital Sunday night at 6:30p after an hour of consistent 3-5 minute contractions, but very minimal pain. (I just wanted to see if we had advanced anywhere from the Monday 1 cm reading. The measure me at 1cm at the hospital and 80% effaced. After an hour of observation I measure at 1 cm and 80% effaced. But thanks to my high blood pressure spike they had to do some blood work<\/span> on me before they could discharge me to go home. When the blood work<\/span> came back 2 hours later they decided to check me before making the final decision of whether or not to admit me. I measured at 80% effaced<\/span>, but a whoppin<\/span>‘ 5 cm of dilation<\/span>. That’s right folks, I went from 1 cm to 5 cms<\/span> (in what should have taken some 5-10 hours) in 2 hours. And yes, you all, I was definitely<\/span> feeling the contractions at that point. I decided with little effort that I would like some kind of pain medication. They gave me Nubian<\/span> (or however you spell it) to “take the edge off the contractions). After dilating<\/span> to 7cms<\/span> in another 2 hours I happily received<\/span> an epidural<\/span> and advanced to 9cm in about an hour to an hour and a half. After that I sat at 9cm for about an hour and then hit 10, was pushing, and had Rachael out in 43 minutes. So total hospital birthing time was 9hours and 3 minutes (and if my math break-down doesn’t add up then take into consideration that we really were in hospital active labor for 9 hours and 3 minutes via admittance records and I just felt a bit fuzzy after the Nubian<\/span>).<\/p>\n

There were some bleeding complications with me after Rachael was pronounced as doing great, cleaned up, and introduced to me while they did an hour and a half of stitching<\/span> attempts. Then I was moved to the OR where I received<\/span> another hour of stitching and a thoroughly big does of epidural<\/span> medicine to coax me through it. I spent 6 hours in recover – wanting to see my daughter- while Matt witnessed Rachael’s bath and caught a few hours of much-needed sleep. I caught a few hours of sleep, finally was cleared to go to my family, and then Matt and I had some baby time and sleep time.<\/p>\n

I really can’t describe to you the incredible joy I felt being rolled down the hallway to go see my daughter for the second time. I was bed-ridden for the rest of the day – primarily sleeping and attempting to recover. And then today at 11:30am I was cleared to pee on my own, remove the IV and shower to feel like a person again. Today has been such a wonderful day in comparison to the amount of pain and emotional stress of yesterday. But you know what? Rachael was totally worth it. TOTALLY!<\/p>\n

Today we spent the whole day just hanging out with Rachael. And it felt like we were actually going to take her home tomorrow – and that she was ours. But there was still the newness of remembering her name during sparatic<\/span> questions and all the newness of the beginning realization that we are now officially parents in a nine hour sweep of quick labor.<\/p>\n

So thus ends the pregnancy story of Rachael.
And thus begins the greatest adventure of our lives – named Rachael Elizabeth.<\/div>\n

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“hello world.”<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monday morning baby. Announcing … Rachael Elizabeth born Monday, January 5 at 3:33am.She was 8 lbs and 14.9 oz. And 21.25 inches long. She has big feet and a full head of brown hair that is very easily styled into a Mohawk. I think she has her daddy’s nose. Daddy says she has my beauty…. Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-oldest","clear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todayslegacy.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}