As it turned out, my concerns about needing to go walking...walking...walking before my due date, which was today, were totally unnecessary. On Saturday, March 19th, I woke up from my afternoon nap to discover that my water had broken. After a bit of rushing around (we weren't quite ready to be going so early!), Felix and I went off to the hospital!
With no real labor or contractions going on, I was hooked up to pitocin almost right away, and this time I decided to toss bravery right out the window. Epidural? ABSOLUTELY. As soon as I started to feel yucky, the anesthesiologist came in and set up my drugs. It was great!
So I labored away in relative comfort through the afternoon...and the evening...and then at around 2am, the nurse came in to check me again. The thrilling news was that I had made great progress! The bad news was that the baby had flipped into a breech position. Turn off the pitocin, stop laboring, and get ready to go the OR. Yes, that's right - I was on my way to getting a C-section.
Surprisingly, I was really calm about the whole thing. The only true moment of freakiness was when the anesthesiologist came back to really drug me up. "Can you feel this? How about now? And now?" Let's just say that I was EXTREMELY anxious to give him the right answer. God forbid I said the wrong thing, didn't get enough drugs, and let out a crazy holler when they cut into me! Fortunately, it turned out just fine. I was so numb that I literally had no idea the rest of my body was even still there. There are few things that are more surreal than watching people move you and your limbs and have no idea they're even touching you. Truly strange.
A mere thirty-five minutes from open to close, Ellie Mei Lin came into the world. She was born on Sunday, March 20th at 3:06 am. Almost three weeks early, my cutie pie was a tiny 6 lbs. 3 ozs and a shrimpy 17" long.
Recovering from the C-section has been tough. Really tough. But each day I get better, and when I find myself wincing in pain, I only need to take one quick look into the sweet sweet face of my sweet sweet Ellie to make myself smile.
With no real labor or contractions going on, I was hooked up to pitocin almost right away, and this time I decided to toss bravery right out the window. Epidural? ABSOLUTELY. As soon as I started to feel yucky, the anesthesiologist came in and set up my drugs. It was great!
So I labored away in relative comfort through the afternoon...and the evening...and then at around 2am, the nurse came in to check me again. The thrilling news was that I had made great progress! The bad news was that the baby had flipped into a breech position. Turn off the pitocin, stop laboring, and get ready to go the OR. Yes, that's right - I was on my way to getting a C-section.
Surprisingly, I was really calm about the whole thing. The only true moment of freakiness was when the anesthesiologist came back to really drug me up. "Can you feel this? How about now? And now?" Let's just say that I was EXTREMELY anxious to give him the right answer. God forbid I said the wrong thing, didn't get enough drugs, and let out a crazy holler when they cut into me! Fortunately, it turned out just fine. I was so numb that I literally had no idea the rest of my body was even still there. There are few things that are more surreal than watching people move you and your limbs and have no idea they're even touching you. Truly strange.
A mere thirty-five minutes from open to close, Ellie Mei Lin came into the world. She was born on Sunday, March 20th at 3:06 am. Almost three weeks early, my cutie pie was a tiny 6 lbs. 3 ozs and a shrimpy 17" long.
Recovering from the C-section has been tough. Really tough. But each day I get better, and when I find myself wincing in pain, I only need to take one quick look into the sweet sweet face of my sweet sweet Ellie to make myself smile.
