Wednesday 2/12/03
We went to what we had hoped to be our last OB appointment today. We were praying for good news. Something along the lines of "you are 8 cm go to the hospital NOW".

Gained 2 lbs in a week. The nurse took my BP, but didn't comment. Dr. F came in and checked me. He said I was 2cm and head was pretty low. We had been told the week before by another OB to expect a 9 lb'er, Dr F didn't seem to think baby was that big. YAY - sigh of relief on my end!! He said my BP was up a bit and since I was 40 wks as of tomorrow, he didn't want to keep my pregnant any longer. He made me a date with a bag of pitocin for 2/14/03 or 2/15/03. He said they'd call me when space was available, so basically we just had to wait it out.

I really was not excited about the whole pitocin thing. I went thru that with Mckenzie and it was awful. So, David and I took the kids for a long walk - hoping to jump start something! All it got me was frustration - lots of icky false labor. Grandma Lisa decided to come down tonight and take Thu off work "just in case". Here's to hoping!

 Thursday 2/13/03 (Due Date)
Thanks to all those lovely contractions last night, I could not drag my butt out of bed before 11am. I was soooo tired! Myndi called and said she wanted to take me to lunch and shopping. David, Lisa and McKenzie were able to spend some quality time together too, so that was  nice. We stopped by mom's work... everyone is sooo anxious for this little one to make his/her appearance.

We went to Subway, ate a big lunch (Subway Melt, pretzels, soda, and a bowl of potato soup to be exact) and then it was off to Target. We walked the store for an hour and a half. All that got me was a big fat backache!! All this effort for nothing, we decided we needed some Cold Stone to make it all better. Yummers! Cake batter ice cream with caramel syrup and cookie dough add ins in a waffle bowl! Just what the doctor ordered... but still no labor!!

Grandma Lisa and Daddy made yummy enchiladas for dinner - spicy food = contractions? Not for me!! But boy was it good! We sat and watched Survivor... my little turkey kickin around all the while!

 Friday 2/14/03 Valentine's Day!
I guess in the back of my mind, I went to sleep knowing that today could be the day, but I really didn't think it would happen. At this point I'm thinking this baby will never come out! About 5am I started getting some HARD contractions. They seriously hurt! At 6:30am the phone rang, woke everyone up! (Lisa and Myndi both spent the night). I jabbed David to run and catch it... he fell outta bed and just barely got to the phone in time. It would have taken me about an hour to get to the phone if i had tried!

It was the hospital... they said we could come in at 7:30. Yikes!! Was it REALLY time?! I made sure my bags were completely packed, did my hair and makeup and got the kids up so they could open their valentine's day gifts before we left. Lisa and Myndi were going to get them off to school. We took a few pictures and loaded up the van... off we went! Got checked in (and met our WONDERFUL nurse Lori) at 8am. Room 132 I believe or maybe it was 32... not sure b/c I did not leave the room until we checked out.

Got all hooked up to the monitor, which was a process... made me feel like a whale, Lori could not get the darn thing fastened. She assured me that it was the belt and not me! Finally got all hooked up and about 8:30ish my Doctor came in and checked me... 3cm!! Not too shabby way to start labor. He said that I was very thin and head was very low. He stripped my membranes first - Good Lord did that ever hurt! Then he proceeded to break my water, which took several minutes. I guess my water was not ready to pop! In the process, baby's head got a little scratched up :( Oh yeah, and then the order for pitocin - dangnabit, I thought he may have forgotten about that!

So by 9am contractions were coming in FULL force. OWIE! They hurt SOO bad! About 9:30ish, my mom, Lisa and McKenzie came in. I don't remember much for the next half hour... just lots of pain... ouch and only a couple of seconds in between each stupid pitocin induced contraction. Just before 10am, Myndi joined the party.

At 10am the nurse checked me and I was at 4-5 cm. Since my doctor had told me earlier that morning that any cervix change and I could have my epidural, I told the nurse I was ready for it.

The head of anesthesia was there that day and he came in and took care of my epidural. He did an awesome job... explained everything the whole way through. It was a bit uncomfy and it did hurt, but the worst was just the weird pressure I felt when he put the cathetar in my back. Very weird feeling... within minutes it was over and it started kicking in full force. Everyone re-joined the room and I was ready for popcorn and a movie. I was sooo relaxed and actually enjoyed every bit of the rest of my labor and delivery.

My doctor poked his head in at some point... we were hoping to deliver during his lunch break so he didn't have to miss any of his patients at the office. LOL. About noonish we called my dad to come pick up McKenzie. He lives about 20 minutes or so from the hospital and said he was going to leave shortly.

Sometime around 12:15 or so I started REALLY having the urge to push. I felt no pain, just pressure. LOTS of pressure. They checked me (I still remember Lori telling me that she felt LOTS of hair on baby's head) and I was at 10... so they called my doctor, who was just across the parking lot in his office. Looks like he was going to get his lunch break delivery after all! He got his scrubs on and I hunkered down to push. I felt like with every push my head was going to explode. It felt like instead of pushing down all my pushing was staying in my head. Very weird feeling, but I did something right... must have been anxious to find out what my little surprise baby was -- because at 12:48 my beautiful baby girl was born. She was purple and covered with white stuff... but she was perfect, And yes a BABY GIRL! No tears no cuts - nothing! She weighed 7lb 11oz and was 19" long. She looked SOOO tiny to me.. and her head just looked itsy bitsy (it was 31.5 cm).

My dad did not get there in time and at some point McKenzie fell asleep on the couch in the room anyway, so my 2 year old daughter slept through the delivery of her baby sister! Daddy woke her up just after baby got swaddled (she was very cold and had a hard time regulating her temp. but she did okay after a bit). McKenzie was attached to her from the start! She helped Daddy and Lori give baby no name a bath (yep, she did not have a name until the day we left the hospital!!).

Grandpa showed up shortly after and the other visitors we had in the hospital were Brian and Crystal and Connor and Brittney. We stayed until Sunday (we could have left Sat but the nurses encouraged me to stay one more night) - and I'm so happy we did. I got a jump start on recovery by staying that extra day. And the hospital food wasn't all that bad! Plus I had some extra help with breastfeeding as well.

We finally decided on a name... we went back and forth between Bailey Madison and Madison Bailey as well as Bailey Grace. She looked like a Bailey to me and Daddy liked that name better so that's what we picked.

There you have it - Bailey Madison's birth story!! THE END!

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