July 14th......Katelyn is Born *Updated*

I woke up at 4:30 JUST waiting......until 6:00. It was nice to go to the hospital and know that they wouldn't send me back and that we were having our baby today!!

This is the before pictures! So that I can see how big I actually was and how kind everyone that told me I was so small was.

haha....I was huge! Baby Kate was ready to COME OUT!!

                                              This is right before I got into my fancy Hospital Gown.

Then we get the IV in, and they started me on Pitocin. The contractions started up very quickly and I started feeling them fast! I waited until around 11:00 to get my epidural in, before they up'ed my dose of pitocin and the contractions really started hurting!!

My Grandma came at 8:00am to come help me deliver Baby Kate!! (She is actually named after my grandma, Katelyn Ana Marie Glazner) I love my grandma she's been there at EVERY single birth of mine. I love it!!

So I was at a 2+ and I was so scared of the epidural because they missed 3 times with Bridger and I was so nervous that they were going to miss this time as well. So I waited fora bit before I got it done. The Epidcural guy was named RICK and he was awesome, gave me 2 numbing shots to make sure I didn't feel the epidural needle and I was set.

But I didn't feel my legs go completley numb like I did with Bridger. I didn't feel the contractions anymore and thought it would kick in later. THEN the dr came in to break my water at two, when he did that, I totally felt him break my water and the water gushing out. I said..."If I feel that, won't I feel the birth?" They told me they wanted me to feel the "Pressure" of the baby. But I wouldn't feel any pain.  I was like...Ok. One thing I did feel was I got ITCHY!! Which is a common side effect of the epidural. Which never has happened with my other two.

 Ok...so before I go further, another thing about this pregnancy was that I got so swollen!! My feet were so swollen the last 3 months of this pregnancy, I couldn't even wear my wedding ring! UGH...so after they put in my epidural, my feet swelled up like they never did before. Jed HAD to take pictures of them. So here they are...uhhhhhhh

LOOK at that!?!? At least I had my glitter toes...=)

After he broke my water  I started to dilate a LOT faster, at 2:00pm I was still only about a 3. VERY slow at dilating. But then around 5:00 I started to feel Pressure, with like an ache to it. I told the nurse I wanted more drugs because I didn't want to feel that. It started to really hurt, and my legs were less numb then before. That got me more worried. So the anesthesiologist came in and gave me more drugs but again told me that I would still feel pressure, this was to take the edge off. I was like..ok..but I shouldn't feel the birth. She said.." its supposed to feel like you have to go to the bathroom, but you won't have any pain with it". Again I was like, ok. I never felt that before so....

So around 6:00 they came in and checked me again, told me I was at a 7!! I was going FULL SPEED, and the Dr said before 7:00pm I would probably deliver her. I was so excited, time to call in my reinforcements. Also for this birth I decided I wanted a professional to come and take pictures of it. Not national geographic or anything, but some very tasteful pictures of the whole birth. So I called my photographer along with my aunt, and Mom.

I was excited, but I was getting way more anxious because the "Pressure" was totally there and it was NOT comfortable. The pain went away but the feeling of having to go to the bathroom and NOT be able to was miserable. Every 2 minutes I would get the urge to have to go to the bathroom and at the same time TRY and hold it. Because I didn't know if I had to or not!! She assured me that it was the baby and that I didn't have to really go. It was awful, and then I started feeling pain with the pressure, at a quarter to 7:00 they told me I was at a 10 and ready to push. I was so nervous, and feeling the pain with the pressure!

At 6:50 I started to push, and just like they said I started pushing, and then I felt this HUGE pain of fire and pulling and stretching like I've never felt before!! I started screaming it hurt so bad!! After six pushes she was OUT!! Sure enough the nurse was right I didn't go to the bathroom, which is such a relief!! I was so worried about that!!

After she came out, they put her on my tummy and she was SO beautiful!! She was so chubby!!! I thought for sure she was going to be this 8 pound baby, but she was this TINY seven pounds EVEN baby!! 19 inches long. Awww...she sure felt a LOT bigger than that. lol.

I had ONE tiny stitch and the I was telling the dr that I totally felt that, and it was burning! He said, " oh wow..you felt that? I think the epidural might of worn off, you just had your touch of natural birth ". UGHHHH I'm so sorry but I do not know WHY someone would want to go Natural!! That was awful!!! But at least I didn't feel the contractions the whole time, only the last 2 hours were bad.

While she got evaluated and check out, I got my one stitch, and was shaking like crazy!! He told me that some placenta was still inside and that he was going to give me some meds to help me get it out, and fight infection. About 45 minutes after I gave birth, they had me WALK to the bathroom, pee and get in a wheel chair. I was so surprised at how fast they had me do things! I was in so much pain!! I hurt so badly down in that area along with the cramping. UGH!!!! I was asking for pain meds as soon as they put me into my recovery room.

Finally after I had my pain meds, I felt a TINY bit better, I was still in so much pain. I was so uncomfortable. But the pain meds started kicking in and took the edge off. My family came to visit and the photographer took pictures of the kids with their new baby sister. Then with my grandma, uncle, aunt, brother, sister inlaw. I can't wait to see the pictures!

Then they went and bathed Katelyn and she came back with 2 pink bows...she looked SO CUTE!! I loved her so much!!

Then ......we start the first night with our Katelyn......The story continues!!