Our little Fiona has made her arrival at last. You probably assumed so since in my last post I was 38 weeks pregnant. She came about 10 days early on April 26, my water breaking while out to dinner of all places! A strange experience since it never broke with Jack. Luckily I was able to make it to the car with Jack while Johnny grabbed dinner "to go" and we were on our way home to get ready for the hospital. The doctor said that I should head in within the hour just because we didn't know how fast things would progress once I started having contractions. Well, thankfully we did what we were told because I started having contractions almost immediately and things progressed REALLY fast. Once at the hospital we were moved right into a delivery room and started prepping for delivery. Just like Jack I was 6cm dilated when they first checked and I barely had the epidural in me 30 minutes before it was time to push. All in all I was in labor for pretty much exactly 3 hours when our little girl was born after just 3 pushes!! I couldn't believe how fast she came.....after all of the waiting and wondering when this moment would happen. Once again it was one of the most magical, intense, and emotional experience of my life. There is NOTHING more special than child birth, and to share that with my husband makes it all that more special.
At just 6lbs 6oz. 19.5 inches long, little Fiona was SUPER tiny and I seriously felt like I was going to break her the first time I changed her tiny diaper! She was so much smaller at birth than Jack (and I thought he was small!!).
This time around I developed a super intense headache as a result of the epidural. I guess it's fairly common and the only way to treat it is to have what's called a blood patch done....basically another epidural without the drugs and your blood instead. They take a small amount of your own blood out of your arm and put it in your back to clot the leak that was created from the original epidural. The thing is, I get sinus headaches fairly (mostly when the pressure in the air changes) often and so I just thought this was a really bad sinus headache. The air in the hospital is SO dry and I couldn't tell the difference other than the fact that constant alternating of large doses of Motrin and Tylenol were NOT helping one bit!! I felt like I just kept pumping my body full of drugs for absolutely no reason. So after going home and 4 days of being in excruciating pain, I called my doctor who said she's 90% sure my headache was from the epidural and I should go to the ER and get it taken care of. This headache was so intense when sitting or standing up that it hurt to open my eyes. Once laying down it felt a million times better. So imagine having to hold & nurse a baby, change diapers, and take care of a high energy 21 month old all at the same time, all while my head was throbbing so much I couldn't believe I was even able to function!!! That's why I gave in and called the doctor. So after spending an entire day waiting around in the ER they finally did the blood patch and my headache went away pretty much immediately. I couldn't believe it and I felt like myself again. Now I could go home and finally enjoy being a new mom again.
So far Fiona is a really great baby and literally just sleeps all day and has never gotten up more than twice during the night to feed. And even then she goes right back to sleep. I just remember Jack crying a lot more, she only fusses when hungry and cries in the car seat which she doesn't seem to like very much. She LOVES her bath, hasn't gotten upset or cried at all during bath time yet. She's super good and I hope things stay that way :) She is starting to stay awake a little bit more during the day and for longer periods of time than when she was first born. She really likes the 4moms MamaRoo swing which I'm pretty happy about.
Jack is embracing being a big brother with everything he has, he LOVES his little sister so much. We let Jack come and visit me at the hospital on the day that I was going home, that way he could just go home with us and not have to leave me again. I really was not prepared for how much I would miss him. I really had no idea until I saw him that day at the hospital and I just burst into tears. I missed that little guy so much and really just wanted this whole experience to go well with him accepting his new sister. Luckily I didn't have to worry too much because he did and is still doing really well. When it was time to leave the hospital he got down on the ground and got the car seat all ready then looked up at my mom (who was holding the baby) and reached up for her as if my mom was going to hand her to him so that he could put her in the car seat to go home. It was SO cute and I was so proud of him. Still to this day he is obsessed with giving her kisses and hugs and looks for her first thing in the morning. Yesterday when he woke up from his nap he came to the top of the stairs and was all upset with his arms out saying baby? baby? baby? because he didn't know where she was. I told him she was downstairs and as soon as we got to the bottom of the stairs he ran right over and said "hi" and gave her a big kiss. He seriously melts my heart over and over again all day long!
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