The time has finally come. Emmabelle Hartman has finally made her way into the world. She decided that she wanted to give her mom the best Mother's Day ever. That is correct she was born on Mother's Day May 11, 2008 at 6:12 pm.
Sunday morning I woke up and realized that my water had broke. So after a filling breakfast Dave, Nicole (my sister-in-law) and I headed for the hospital. The morning went pretty slowly, I am postive for Group B Strep so they needed to get two doses of anitbiotics in me before the baby was born. Around 3:00 I got my epidural and at this time I was dialated to a 4. The family decided that it was time to come and visit us and bring Nicole and Dave their dinner around 4:30 or 5:00. They left around 5:30 thinking that it would be a few more hours until the baby was born since I was averaging 1cm per hour. Little did we know what was coming. When they left I was at 7cm and I just took off like a rocket. I ended up going from 7 to delivery in about 45 mins. They decided it would be a good idea to call the doctor at 9cm. He arrived at the hospital at 9 1/2cm and was barely getting his gloves on when Emmabelle decided to come out. Nicole and the nurses kept telling me to wait and hold on and wait for the next contraction. I very nicely told them that I was not waiting and that I was pushing this baby out. It took about 5 mins total from when I told them I had to push to when Emmabelle came out. It was quite a shock to everyone how fast it all came. Dave was able to cut the cord and I was able to hold her right away which was different from Avery's delivery. She was 7lbs 2oz and 19in long.
We stayed in the hospital until Tuesday afternoon. We would have been home sooner in the day, but the doctors were a little slow getting over to see us and give the discharge orders.
We are all doing very well. Avery likes her little sister most of the time. She has some trouble with Dave giving Emmabelle too much attention and has started getting a little irritated when it comes time for me to feed Emmabelle. But all in all she really is doing good at adjusting to another baby in the house. I have been amazed at how big Avery seems with Emmabelle in the house. She is still very petite, but she is most definately a little girl not a baby.
I hope you enjoy the pictures and I will continue to keep you updated as often as possible.
3 comments:
Oh my heck she is pretty much the cutest little thing I've seen! I have been stocking your blog hoping you would put pictures up. I want to see her so bad. Congrats! If you need anything let me know.
Did you put lip gloss on her for the picture? ;) Kidding. But she does have glossy puckers, which is beautiful. Maybe that's what drool is really for. :)
Kidding aside, she is super cute. I'm so happy you seem to be doing well. Thanks for sharing the news and accompaning picturs. I wish I were there! Congratulations a hundred times!!!
She's absolutly beautiful!! Congrats!! Give Avery a big sister party, so she'll feel important and not so left out!
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