Katie's Story

My C-Section is scheduled for this Thursday. Katie didn't get the memo. Tuesday morning, the 13th, I woke up feeling crampy and blah. Marcus was leaving for work and I told him to keep his phone close. After a couple of hours of feeling yuck, I called the dr. and they had me come in and get checked. I wasn't dilated at all. They said when the contractions are 5 minutes apart go to the hospital.

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So I worked at the new house the whole day. Courtney, Laura, and Jennifer all helped me take car loads of stuff over there. I was not much help at all. I felt like I couldn't carry anything and I just hurt.

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So I started taking notice of the "cramps" and realized they were worse about every 15 minutes. After 2 hours of this I thought they could possibly be contractions. I kept convincing myself it wasn't labor since I had just been to the dr. that morning. Finally around 8:00 pm Marcus and I both decided he should come home just in case. Even if it wasn't labor, I was in too much pain to be by myself.

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After he got home they were every 10 minutes and even more intense. I had time to shower and pack things up, empty the dishwasher, fold clothes...important stuff like that. Oh, and we had to take one last picture too.

The mantle is already at the new house, so the fire place looks nekkid.

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I felt silly going to the hospital and then being transported by a wheel chair. I just felt like I was pretending to be in labor, but then another contraction hit!

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Here they have me hooked up to a monitor measuring contractions and the baby's heartbeat.

I still wasn't dilated, so the dr wasn't going to come in that night to deliver Katie.

Then, the contractions were every 5 minutes and horrible! Terrible intense pain for the next 12 hours. There were too many c-sections scheduled for in the morning so I had to wait until noon. It was a little nightmarish. Now it seems like that was years ago!

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Here I am walking to my surgery. I am smiling, because I know I am about to get a spinal block and I can't wait. I was really scared of having a c-section, but after being in labor, I was just ready for them to cut me open!

Then, TA-DA, a baby!

She looks super confused and is not sure what just happened to her!

Then we had lots of visitors:

my sister and her kids

my mom

(who just started reading this blog yesterday. I guess I finally have a subject she is interested in)

Marcus's mom

Nieces and nephew

Courtney

Laura

Kara

Anna

Marcus and Katie spent a lot of time doing this:



And Marcus also had to feed her formula for her 2nd feeding, because I was so out of it. I couldn't even hold her.

And this is us heading home on Saturday!

The last few days at home have been great. She is a good baby and eats well. She cries at night, but I guess babies have to cry sometime. We love her.

Thanks for all your well wishes and for being so excited with us!