I know you guys already know that our sweet Chloe is here from the overwhelming amount of pictures, but we just can't help it. I wanted to go ahead and do a sort of "Birth Story" because I know a lot of you have been asking about how it all went down. I'm going to do it in a nut shell so it's not long and drawn out hehe. So here it goes:
April 1st we went in at 6 am to start the induction process as planned. When I went in, my cervix was dialated to a 1. By the time the Dr. got there and got the gel situated in me it was a little after 8 and the waiting process began. after a good hour they checked again and still nothing...so they did another gel treatment and waited another hour or so. That time I jumped up to a 4 so they did another gel treatment and waited another hour. By that time I was begging for an epidural because...well I just hate pain. They gave it to me and broke my water assuming my cervix might just do it's job because it jumped so quickly. The epidural made everything better until about 3 hours passed and the 4th gel treatment proved to be worthless. By then the Dr. was positive that a c-section was the best way to get Chloe out. He waited another 2 hours just to make sure nothing changed and of course nothing did.
All of a sudden the nurses came in and said ok lets go. They took me so fast I couldn't even say good-bye to my mom or Ben. To spare the detail of this tramatizing event (to me because I hate operating rooms...they scare me to death), Ben got to come in at the last minute and hold my hand through the whole thing. At 7:29pm Chloe was finally here. Ben got to cut her cord and hold her to show me while they were sewing me up. Then they wheeled me away to recovery for a good hour and a half. By the time I got back to the postpartum room it was around 10:30.
The following day the Dr. came in to see how I was doing and he told me that Chloe had been face up (just like I was) and that he would have ended up doing an emergancy C-section if my cervix decided to start working. He also told me that she was trying her best to come out and her head was shaped a little like a cone from trying so hard. If he wouldn't have taken her she would have been in major distress! So over all i'm extremely happy the way things worked out, he took mine and Chloe's life into his best interest and I'm so glad he did!
We got to come home on Easter which was about 3 days later and now here we are. I just wanted to thank everyone for their love and support. I really needed the company in the hospital because I was going insane! So I love you guys and thank you so much!
