My Due Date: October 18, 2011
Labor Began: October 16, 2011 ~ Woke up in the middle of the night (1am) thinking I might be having contractions. (Felt like menstrual cramps that lasted only for a few seconds). I got up and walked around the house and they didn’t stop so then I downloaded a "contraction timer" app on my iphone and started watching my contractions. Josh woke up at about 3am thinking that I was just having trouble sleeping, but he quickly learned that I was having contractions. We waited until my contractions were about 5 minutes apart and then headed to the hospital. It was 5am on the dot when I got in this hospital bed...I was 4 and a half centimeters dilated...I got my epidural about an hour later. Here we are waiting for me to dilate to 10 centimeters.
Labor Began: October 16, 2011 ~ Woke up in the middle of the night (1am) thinking I might be having contractions. (Felt like menstrual cramps that lasted only for a few seconds). I got up and walked around the house and they didn’t stop so then I downloaded a "contraction timer" app on my iphone and started watching my contractions. Josh woke up at about 3am thinking that I was just having trouble sleeping, but he quickly learned that I was having contractions. We waited until my contractions were about 5 minutes apart and then headed to the hospital. It was 5am on the dot when I got in this hospital bed...I was 4 and a half centimeters dilated...I got my epidural about an hour later. Here we are waiting for me to dilate to 10 centimeters.
Aunt Lo goofing around...I couldn't feel my legs. It was the weirdest feeling ever!
Coffee and Word Feud to pass the time...
Daddy got a little antsy from waiting so he watched the contraction monitor for amusement...
The nurse made me sit Budda style to help Charlee drop into the birth canal...
Finally after pushing for 2 1/2 hours Charlee May arrived!!!!! Welcome to the world baby girl!
Charlee May Matthews
Born October 16, 2011 @ 2:42pm
7lbs 13oz and 20 3/4" long
Charlee had "Meconium Aspiration Syndrome" and had to spend 8 days in the NICU. It is a serious condition in which a newborn breathes a mixture of meconium and amniotic fluid into the lungs around the time of delivery. We didn’t get to hold Charlee until 2 days after she was born…it seemed like an eternity and was torture!
Our poor little girl with all those tubes!
First time Daddy & Mommy get to hold Charlee....two days old!
We had many people praying for Charlee May and God is so good and healed our little girl! Charlee went home on an Apnea Monitor for our piece of mind, but other than that the doctor said that she is 100% healthy and perfect! (A home apnea monitor is a portable machine used to monitor a baby's heart beat and breathing. When the baby has a heart rate or breathing rate that is below the limits set on the monitor, an alarm goes off.) Other than false alarms (like a loose connection) the alarm hasn’t gone off and we hope to be taken off the monitor in a few weeks.
That's the hopital story :)...Here we are on our way home! Charlee wasn't a huge fan of her "Going Home" outfit but she was beautiful! Her great Aunt Kathy gave her this Petit Ami smocked dress and Bonnet....precious!
That's the hopital story :)...Here we are on our way home! Charlee wasn't a huge fan of her "Going Home" outfit but she was beautiful! Her great Aunt Kathy gave her this Petit Ami smocked dress and Bonnet....precious!
First Car Ride to Home to Sweet Home!
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