Baby K is here!!

Welcome to the world Kori Beth!!

Kori Elizabeth arrived via C-section at 9:33 Tuesday, March 9th. She weighed 7lbs 8oz, 19 1/2 in. She's perfect in every single way.

How it happened:

We had our normal Ob appointment Monday after lunch. My blood pressure was higher than Dr. B liked and we decided that the best thing to do was have a baby!! He called and set me up to go in at 4:30. After running around like crazy trying to get everything finished, we headed up to the hospital.

I was on Cervadil for 12 hours and started Pitocin at about 6am Tuesday morning. It was a LONG morning.

 I had REALLY bad back labor. My water broke on it's own about 8am. I progressed slowly throughout the day.K's heartrate had been dropping with the contractions since early that afternoon and I was put on oxygen. Turns out the cord was wrapped around her neck one time. Nothing serious, just enough to stress her out during contractions.

We were ready to push at about 7pm. We pushed with the nurse for about 30 before Dr. B came in. We pushed for about 2 hours with Dr.B and K just wasn't moving down. We made the decision to have a C-section because Dr. B was certain that she wasn't moving down anymore and I didn't want her to be in distress much longer.

I was terrified of having a c-section, and to be honest, I don't remember much of it. I was exhausted from the last 30 hours and Jake had to keep me awake during the beginning of it. The whole thing is kind of a blur. After K was out, Jake and my mom went with her to the nursery. I dozed through the rest of the section.

When I was wheeled into recovery, a nurse brought K in and asked if I wanted to hold her. Unfortunately, the spinal had gone up into my arms and they were not cooperating. That was the worst feeling of the whole day. But, Daddy got to hold her.

The next few hours are still kind of fuzzy. K's sugar levels were lower than they wanted, and she was put on Dextrase(or something like that?) through IV. She had to stay in the nursery until Thursday afternoon.

K finally got to come room with us Thursday at 2. It was great. We were released to go home Friday and left about 1. Coming home was amazing. I missed our little apartment and our sweet puppy. =] Lilly has done great with K(even though I think she's scared of her.) The first night home was....rough. Poor baby K had some serious gas pains, but we made it and every moment is perfect.

 It's weird, I never thought I could love her this much. I mean, I knew I would love her, but no one could ever describe this feeling. I don't like going to sleep because I feel like I'm going to miss something. I just want to stare at her all day everyday.