She Came!!!

My 24th Birthday was an ok day... I spent the morning not feeling too bright eyed and bushy tailed I felt pretty crampy. The night before I was anxious and feeling crappy and had someone stay with me. I cleaned up a little and then crashed on the sofa with no desire to do anything in the morning. But mom dragged me out and we went to Babies R Us to get my birthday present a nursing gown. :) Then we went to JCP cause I wanted to get her an Easter Dress. I was able to use one of the GC's we got from the church shower. I was pretty happy about the purchase. Then we went to B and J's. I had to show Bean her Easter dress. He called it a Princess Dress. Then he and I spent a good 30 minutes playing one of his little games on the walkway. Followed by tv shows and Bean yelling out Bojangles Banana Pants. Joyce made a yummy dinner the traditional Nancy birthday dinner of stuffed shells. Then she made her Peanut Butter Chocolate Cake mmm my mouth is already watering. It was very good. We watched a few more tv shows then Mom took me home. I was starting to feel not that great again. So I was ready for bed but I kept feeling like I had to pee and I kept trying to pee but I couldn't. I was on the phone with Mom she was telling me she'd left her phone in her car and if I needed her to call Bahnson's house and right before we hung up my water broke. . . I called the dr twice but got impatient waiting for someone to answer so I called Jeff and told him it was time. I was on the phone with the Dr and they kept asking me questions... like 10 or 12 and I only answered yes to one so I was feeling pretty crappy and I thought maybe I'd called Jeff out for nothing. But he and the Dr both told me to go ahead and go on to the Hospital. As soon as we got out of the car and I stood up. . . I knew it was time. The parking attendant was on the phone though and wasn't paying attention and had us do more walking then necesary and I wasn't too thrilled about that but I stayed in a joking mood. But when we finally got to the ER I started getting nervous. They said they had to wait for someone to walk me up thankfully it was litterally probably 2 minutes but it felt like forever. They asked me a few questions had me do a urine test and put me in a curtain "room". Once again it seemed like forever they hooked me up and said I was getting good contractions and I liked watching the little heartbeat. We got another quick ultrasound to make sure the head was down and she measured and Dr King told me it didn't look like a little baby.... 8, 8 1/2 lbs somewhere in there. They did the broken membranes test - I passed and then I waited again while they prepared a labor and delivery room for me. Called my brother to let him know so he could tell mom that it was for real this time. We got transfered into the L&D room and minutes later my mom was there I was shocked I thought I'd have to call and let her know our room #. A couple hours later I was in pain and ready for an epidural it felt like I was having contraction on top of contraction. They gave me the epidural said I was at 5 and then I went to sleep. I woke up around 6 threw up was at 9 3/4 but she wasn't down low yet.... probably half an hour later I was at 10. I pushed three times maybe 5- 15 minutes but she just wasn't dropping then... I pushed for over 4 hours. The Drs came in and said we had to choose between forceps and C section. While they were giving us time to choose the anestesiologist came in and dopped me up real good. I was puking again and I'd decided on the C section. They wheeled me in put me on the table gave me more drugs and shortly there after Jeff came in. I rememeber them talking about her being big and stuck in there and then they brought down the curtain so I could see her. I just remember how gray she looked and BIG they moved her over to the little crib thing infront of a monitor And I glanced over and looked at her on the screen and then I said I didn't want to see. I started to feel sick again and I was starting to feel the pain even though they said it would just be pressure that much pressure is pain. lol. I was squeezing the crap out of Jeff's fingers and they gave me some more pain medicine and stuff for nausea and really that's all I remember until the recovery room the nurse woke me up and Jeff was in the corner in a chair and the baby was in a hospital bassinet at the end of my bed. The nurse brought her over and let me feed her. And little Anna Claire was the cutest thing I'd ever seen I kept asking Jeff if she had all her fingers and toes and how big she was and how long... I'm still amazed to think this little girl has been growing inside me all this time!