My daughter is Born!

On Monday, February 23, 2009, at like 11 am I called my doctor. I had been having weird painless contractions, but they were time-able. They were coming all the time tho. She told me to go in and get checked. So I got there at like 12. They put me in a triage room at the hospital, and the nurse checked me, and i was still dilated to like almost a 2, but i had been for a while. She said I should go walk around. So my mom and I walked around for like 20 minutes. When she checked me again, I had changed like a quarter of a centimeter. So the nurse said she would call the doctor and let us know what she thought. So I think it was like 230 that i was sitting in this bed, waiting to hear from my doctor. all of a sudden... I was pretty sure I was peeing my pants. but i wasn't sure. But then it kept coming. like 15 minutes later, the nurse came back in and said "Your doctor says you can go home." I was like... "either i'm peeing my pants or my amniotic fluid is breaking." so they moved me into my hospital room. 

It wasn't too long before I got a dose of whatever that synthetic hormone is called that makes you have stronger contractions. I also had to have penecillin for group b strep, which HURTS the ENTIRE time it's flowing into your arm. it SUCKED. 

My mom was in the room with me, Heidi, Efrain, and (yay for me.....) his sister and her boyfriend. (actually, I really don't get along with them and they were the LAST people i wanted to see while contracting in a hospital bed). I started having horrible contractions, so I sat on a big ball and started playing cards with Efrain and Mario (I won). FINALLY at like 830 (and i was pissed cuz i missed jon and kate +8 ) I got my epidural. The anesthesiologist was a tool and he was annoying, but I was soooooo happy to see him. So I got it while I was like 4 cm dilated, but it only worked on one side. I still felt everything on my left side. It was just 1.5 hours later that i was checkd and SURPRISE... I was 9 and needed to get ready to push. My good friend Amber showed up and got to be there thru the whole thing. I pushed for like an hour... and it wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be.. I was texting the whole time. Ha. Heidi made it a little difficult tho, cuz thanks to her I kept laughing but I wasn't supposed to be breathing. So finally at 10:58pm, exactly one week before my due date, I gave birth to my Daughter, Aleeya Lily. She was 7.59 lbs and 20 in long. She had TONS of black hair. Everyone was sooo excited and overwhelmed (well i was anyway).