I know it's been forever but I hate to blog. This blog took me four hours to do so you better enjoy it. Haha. I love to hear peoples birthing stories I hope you do to cause here is mine!
By December 1st I swore that I was going to have him any day. I had contractions all the time I was dilated to a 3 and 60% effaced not to mention the fact that I was huge! Well, I past my due date which was December 31st. My Doctor had me come in on January 5th for an ultra sound and stress test. Carter was measuring over 9lbs and was turned face up. I thought oh great this is going to hurt! He sent us to the hospital to have them monitor my contractions. When I got there they checked me and I was dilated to a 5-6 and was having regular contractions. My contractions really never hurt me. I was having the same type of contractions for the past month. They usually don't give an epidural till your dilated to a 3 so since I was almost a 6 they gave me an epidural and then started me on pitocin. I didn't feel pain the entire time. At around 1:30am I felt my water brake and that I needed to push. The Doctor came in I pushed like 3 times and he was out. 8.08lbs 19in long. He had trouble keeping his temperature up so he had to go to the NICU that night to be under a heat lamp but other than that he was perfectly healthy. The pictures are out of order (one of the reasons this has taken me four hrs) but at least I did a blog!
this is Lucy right after she was born.
Brooklyn and Lucy
He had super long finger nails and I couldn't wait to cut them.
Before I had him. No pain!
11 comments:
Hi Katy,
Tyler gave me the link to your blog - it's really cute! Carter is adorable and I am jelous about the whole no pain thing - lucky! =) Does he look like Lucy? And don't you love how wrong Doctors can be? My Doctor said Daniel was about 7 1/2 pounds but he was almost 9 pounds. I look forward to seeing him after I am through recovering from my surgery. Here is the link to our family blog, feel free to sneak a peek anytime you like! =) http://thefergybunch.blogspot.com/
~ Jennifer
well at least we know he's a boy! XXX. yikes!
i'm stoked to come home and see the first child to carry on the Nichols name!
Katy - You are not allowed to look that good before/after having a baby!!!
He is super cute!
im so excited to see pictures!!! I really need to come see him ive been a bad friend!!! ive just been super busy at work, but i cant wait to hold him!!
Your efforts were worth the wait. Beautiful family. Hopefully the updates will be easier for you. Your fans like to see lots of pics of your adorable children. Keep up the good work.
he is so adorable.... congrats!!!
he is so adorable.... congrats!!!
Finally! Thanks for posting your birth story, I love reading them too. And he IS adorable.
Congratulations! I love the picture of Lucy loving him! Sometimes I think doctor's shouldn't give due dates! It must have been torture waiting so long, but now that he's here, I'm sure he was worth it!
Oh my gosh Lucy looks soooo much like Carter!
I'm so glad we finally got to meet him in person! He really is adorable. So cute & chubby!
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