Introducing Sadie Brooke

Sadie Brooke was born on January 31st at 10:06pm.  She weighed 8lbs 10oz.  A strapping baby girl.

Sadie was actually due on January 28th and the doctor didn't want me going too far past the due date so they decided to have me come in on January 31st.  We had to be at the hospital early in the morning.  Once we got checked in and the doctor showed up they gave me half a pill that is supposed to release hormones that you have when in labor.  Sometimes it gets things started.  So they did that and we waited.  I had been having contractions and mild cramps since the day before so I think labor was kind of starting on its own anyways.  After the pill I had to lay still in bed for two hours, which was kind of uncomfortable.  Sean and I got the chance to watch TV shows we hadn't seen in forever.  And the hospital even had HGTV so we watched lots of home improvement stuff too.  After the pill had a chance to work, they checked on us again and apparently there was progress, but not a lot.  At that point the doctor said I could wait and see what happened, let nature take its course, or start the pitocin.  I chose to wait it out and see what happened.  She said she'd come back late afternoon early evening.

 When the doctor came back, a little after 7pm, the baby had moved down far enough that they could finally break my water.  I wanted them to do that initially but they couldn't because the baby was too high.  She liked to sit at the highest station of -2, apparently and they couldn't break the water until she was at 0 or lower.  Since she was, they broke my water at 7:40pm.  All was well for around 20 minutes and then things started happening very fast, just like they did with Kaelyn.  I started feeling very crampy and sick and would walk around for a while, but confined myself to the bed after a very short amount of time.  I just felt so sick and crampy that I could hardly move and it was hard to talk.  It all seemed very familiar since it was just what happened with Kaelyn.  After an hour or so I started violently shaking between contractions.  If that happened with KAelyn, I don't remember it!  Sean called for the nurse/doctor and they came in and said it looked like I was in transition.  I was hot, but it was like I was freezing because I couldn't stop shaking.

By then I was dialated to 9 and the doctor and nurse decided to stick around.  They kept asking me stuff.  Do you feel sick?  Do you want this or that?  I basically ignored them.  Nodded on occasion.  I did manage to tell Sean to schedule an appointment for a vasectomy for the next day because I didn't want to do this again.  Haha.  It's not that it hurt, I wouldn't describe it that way.  It was just the most intense discomfort, I guess I would say.

The doctor said there was just a little ways to go before I could push and she could move the rest of the cervix out of the way if I wanted, but most people told her no because it hurt.  I told her to go ahead because I wanted that baby OUT.  She was right.  It hurt.  That was the worst part of the ordeal this time.  I actually thought I had had the baby when she did that. :)

 But then they let me push and they kept telling me to do this or that with my knees but they weren't in my position.  What they wanted me to do just wasn't possible.  My legs were doing what they wanted! :)  After a few pushes they wanted me to start pushing even when I wasn't having a contraction.  And the oxygen mask came out again like last time and it annoyed me like last time.  As they were telling me to push through all times and not just contractions they were saying that they didn't know what baby was doing so I had to push.  I didn't really know what that meant and didn't really care at that point because I was in a daze.  Strange, but true. 

Then Sadie was born and apparently she had the cord wrapped around her neck twice.  I saw her and she was completely purple.  Her mouth was open and her head lax and she just looked completely still.  They didn't lay her on my chest like they said they would and instead went across the room and picked up an arm and dropped it...completely limp.  Very scary looking back on it now, but at the time I felt completely calm.  They had to breath for her for a while and give her oxygen puffs to get her lungs going.  The doctor said later it was like she passed out from having the cord around her neck but that she came around quickly and all was well.

She eventually cries a bit and pinked up some and was fine after that.  Seeing her purple has turned out to be a real blessing.  EVery time she wakes me and I'm SO tired I can barely thing, I think about that.  She could have not made it.  So I feel blessed and VERY grateful that she did.

Sadie looks very much like Kaelyn did when she was a newborn.  I am anxious to see what she looks like as she gets older.  We came home on Saturday late afternoon after Sadie was born Thursday late in the evening.  Sadie is a MUCH calmer baby than KAelyn was and though she cries, she never SCREAMS like Kaelyn always did.  She sleeps better as well, though not GREAT.  The best part of her sleeping is you can actually set her down places when she's asleep.  KAelyn would always wake up immedaitely when she wasn't being held.  Even at stop lights in the car she'd jar awake!  Sadie is generally easier to keep happy.

Kaelyn is SUCH a good big sister too.  She has been very sweet about and to Sadie.  She always wants to see and hold her and tells me when to feed her and change her etc.  She kisses her and wants to hold her hand and says how cute she is and that she loves her. I'm relieved.  You never know how a kid will react to not being the center of it all ALL of the time etc.

Our family is complete now that Miss Sadie is here.  She's asleep in the swing now and Kaelyn is out playing in the snow so I'm able to get this written.