Minnick's Musings: Welcome Emmi Reese- Birth Story

Emmi is 4 weeks old today...so I figure I better get all of the stuff down before it gets a little foggy! I will post more later on our first few weeks at home!

Mitch and I headed to the hospital about 11:45pm on August 29th. Luci had went to Quinn's...and we knew it was going to be quite a long induction process since she was 3 weeks early, so just the 2 of us went until things started progressing more.

Heading to the hospital!

Left: Heading to the hospital to have Luci...Right: Heading to the hospital to have Emmi!

We arrived at the hospital, checked in, and then I got hooked up to IV's and started the first part of the induction. Mitch was able to fall asleep, but I just couldn't get comfortable. They started pitocin about 6am and then my doctor came and broke my water about 7am...then things started to get really uncomfortable! Family started arriving soon after and just popped in and out to say hi.

The nurse came and asked if I wanted something for pain around 9am. I told her that I would make it a while longer and then I would get my epidural (my doctor had cleared me to get it whenever after she broke my water). Well, a few minutes later the nurse came back in and said that the anesthesiologist had a c-section he was getting ready to go to...and would be gone for probably an hour and a half...and then he had 2 other women ahead of me for epidurals...so it would probably be around 2-2.5 hours before I could get the epi. At that point, I said go ahead and give me something for pain! Well, as luck would have it...like 10 minutes later, she came back in and said he was going to get the epi's out of the way before the c-section. Sooo, he came in my room about 10 minutes later and I got my epi! I almost fell asleep during it from the pain meds!

After I was comfortable, Luci came in a few times to say hi. We had brought her a Big Sis gift...and she wanted to bring "Blue Ribbon Bunny" that she had made for Emmi. Luci was scared to go near me at any point during the day. The IV's scared her...so the most she would do was stand next to me. She never let me hug her until the next day when I got the IV's out! It was ok though...it didn't bother me...I knew she would eventually get brave!

As close as she would get!

Getting her Big Sis gift!

After that point, they just kept turning up the pitocin every hour or so trying to progress things. Mitch had a list of people that he was texting updates to all throughout the labor process. Around 2:30, I had made it to an 8...and was very uncomfortable...so he sent out the final text and said the next text he would send would be when Emmi arrives!

Just a little bit later, everyone besides my Mom and Mitch left to the waiting room, and we got busy! For some reason my epi did some weird stuff...one side of me was more numb than the other...my stomach was numb...but pretty much everything below that wasn't. I could totally move and lift my legs up the entire time. They had said they would send the anesthesiologist back in to figure things out...but of course, he never showed up. I brushed it off and figured things couldn't be worse than they were with Luci! A few hard pushes and I would have this baby out...wrong!!! About an hour and half later...Emmi finally arrived! That little diva did not want to leave her home!!!! But we did it!!! Mitch and Mom were great...and I survived!!

She was 7lbs 1 oz and 20 1/4 inches long! She would have been a big baby if she would have waited until 40 weeks!

After things were cleaned up, Mitch went to get Luci from the waiting room and brought her in to meet her sister! We wanted it to just be our little family when Luci met Emmi, so the other visitors waited patiently while we got to spend a few moments together as a family!