one week tomorrow...

I can't believe it but tomorrow our baby girl will be one week old.  It's so crazy.  Last week was a whirlwind.  We went to the doctor on Monday to have a check up and my blood pressure was very high, so the doctor sent us home to get our things together and had us go on to the hospital to be induced.  We got there sometime between 3 and 4 in the afternoon and I didn't realize what a long road was before us.  I started having contractions because of some medicine the gave me, they said that it may or may not give them to me, so I was excited they did, I thought that was a good sign, but they didn't make me progress any.  It was a long night of constantly being bothered to have my blood pressure and other things checked and by 5am on Tuesday they started the pitocin, the medicine to make me go into labor.  At 7:30am they took me back to a delivery room and at 9am gave me my epidural.  What a long day and nothing much really happened.  I had very bad back labor all day and my epidural didn't really work like it was supposed to.  By about 8pm they were getting me ready for a c-section, which I was very thankful for since I was so exhausted from everything.  They had to give me a spinal block since my epidural didn't work and at 8:43pm our baby girl was here!!!

The first time I saw her was so amazing and I will never forget it.  She was gorgeous!  After they got her a little cleaned up they brought her over for Travis and I to get a good look at her.  That is a moment I will always cherish.  She was very wide-eyed and I said to her "hey Sophie," and she looked right at me.  It was amazing!  After our little family time, Travis got to carry her to the nursery and I was taken to a recovery room for a little while.

We were in the hospital until Friday, for me to recover.  We came home that morning and it was so surreal to finally have the baby we had waited so long for in our home.

So now here we are, almost one week later and all I can say is that I am truly blessed and humbled that God would let us have this amazing, healthy, beautiful baby girl!