After much anticipation, our little Audrey made her debut on Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 2:50pm.
On Tuesday morning, I went in for my 39 week appointment. At the appointment, my doctor said I was dilated to a 2 and that I could have the baby any time I wanted. After talking it over with Adam, I decided to be induced the next day.
Neither of us slept much that night, knowing that the next day we were having a baby. We got a call the next morning from the hospital, telling us to come in at 7:30 am. After getting checked in and hooked up, they started the pitocin and after about 2 hours of the pitocin, I got an epidural.
The epidural was wonderful. I was able to just relax and hang out with Adam, my mom, and my mother in-law. Around 2 pm the nurse said it was time to push. I pushed for about 5 contractions and then the doctor came in and puller her out.
Audrey was born at 7 lbs. 10 oz. and 19.5 inches. However, she had a hard time keeping her weight on while we were at the hospital, which was quite scary to her mom. When we left the hospital two days later, she only weighed 6 lbs. 15 oz.
As you can see, Audrey was born with a full head of hair, which is a color somewhere between mine and Adams (dirty blond-ish). It's pretty cute.
We had great nurses and doctors looking out for us at the hospital, but we were happy to come home on Friday morning. Since we've been home, Audrey is eating great and has put back on some weight. Besides being the cutest thing ever, she is really a great baby. She lets us sleep for about 5 hour straight at night and only wakes up once in the middle of the night. She hardly ever cries, unless she's hungry or needs her diaper changed and once we take care of that, she's happy.
My mom stayed with us for a week after Audrey was born, which was a huge help while I got back on my feet. Now it is just the three of us, but Adam has been able to be around and helping a lot since he only has school two days a week. He does such a great job with her and is always helping me out with dirty diapers.
While I was pregnant, it felt like this day would never come. But now that she is here, I can't believe how fast it all went. We just feel like the luckiest parents in the world and love her more than we could ever imagine. We are looking forward to watching her grow and are so grateful that we were blessed to have this little miracle come into our lives.
Even though I was still recovering from having Audrey, everyone made this a fun birthday for me. While my family was here, we went out for a birthday dinner to PF Changs Saturday night and then Sunday my mom made my favorite homemade mac and cheese and we had ice cream birthday cake (something I had been looking forward to for the past few months).
The next weekend (on my actual birthday), we celebrated with Adam's family. We went over to Adam's partent's house and had pizza from the Pie and delicious chocolate cake. Adam's grandma flew in that day and was able to celebrate with us and see Audrey.
Between our two families and Adam, I was spoiled. I got some new clothes, I gift card to get some new clothes, new shoes, a gym membership, a soccer ball, and a DVD. While I love all of my new gifts, I do have to say that the best gift was getting to spend my birthday with our new baby girl.
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