On Tuesday August 10, I woke up to my alarm which I then quickly hit the snooze button. I just didn't feel like getting up, plus I was frustrated that I was 2 days past my due date! (I had planned on having her earlier than my due date LOL!) Then after hitting snooze one more time, I had a contraction. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but then I got up to get ready for work and had another really unusual contraction, this time I could feel it in my back. I had just started going into labor. I was going to head into work, but then I just kept getting back labor that hurt like crazy!
So then I decided to go for a walk thinking this could be false labor. I still kept getting contractions. I hadn't been keeping track of my contractions because I thought I would just know when I would need to go into the hospital. When I told my Aunt Linda that I was in labor, she made me keep track of how far apart they were...They were a lot closer than I thought, about 15 minutes. All day until 10:30pm they were the same 15 minutes apart, but then when I called to tell Jake goodnight they started coming every 5 minutes. I thought to myself that I would be fine, that I would take a nice relaxing bath and go to bed, and then when it got worse I would go in. But that plan didn't work, I guess that just because you plan for it to go like that it doesn't. The contractions kept coming every 5 minutes and the back labor was horrible! Finally at 12am I was ready to go get checked up, I still thought that I would get sent home though. So I texted my Aunt Karen to see if she would drive me to the hospital, and if she was asleep I had planned on driving myself (what a joke!). So she drove me to the hospital, I didn't even take my bags because I thought they would just send me home.
It's funny, on the way to the hospital Karen was speeding to get there and I told her she could go the speed limit so she wouldn't get a ticket, she kindly informed me that the cop would probably have been ok for speeding since I was in labor. I wasn't thinking clearly!
Well, we got to the hospital and I got checked in and I was dilated almost to a 4, so they kept me! Gosh, none of the things I had planned were happening! Great, just my luck! So I was now at the hospital with my husband in Oregon, no hospital bags, now 3 days past my due date! Hmm...what else could go wrong?
At about 3am I got my epidural. It was much appreciated and I honestly don't know how I would have done it with out the epidural. At around 8am the doctor came in a broke my water. I was dilated to a 6. After a few hours of being dilated to a 6 they gave me pitocin to speed up the process. While I was on pitocin, it made me get a whole bunch of contractions right in a row, without giving my body a break, Reese's heart rate started dropping. So when we couldn't get her heart rate to pick back up a nurse came in and gave me a shot and started flipping me from side to side to get her heart rate back up. All at the same time I was prepped for an emergency c-section.
It was scary because they didn't tell me what was going on, they just came in and started doing what they had to so her heart rate would go back up. Luckily they got her heart rate up and I didn't need an emergency c-section. However, after hours and hours of being stuck at a 6 I finally had a c-section and Reese Avery Hamblin was born at 5:06pm on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, weighing in at 7lbs 4oz and 19 inches long.
It was so overwhelming with everything, but I am glad she made it here safely and that we get to finally kiss her chubby cheekers!
"What?! You're my mom?!!! Wish me luck, ha"
This is the first time I saw her....
On Tuesday August 10, I woke up to my alarm which I then quickly hit the snooze button. I just didn't feel like getting up, plus I was frustrated that I was 2 days past my due date! (I had planned on having her earlier than my due date LOL!) Then after hitting snooze one more time, I had a contraction. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but then I got up to get ready for work and had another really unusual contraction, this time I could feel it in my back. I had just started going into labor. I was going to head into work, but then I just kept getting back labor that hurt like crazy!
So then I decided to go for a walk thinking this could be false labor. I still kept getting contractions. I hadn't been keeping track of my contractions because I thought I would just know when I would need to go into the hospital. When I told my Aunt Linda that I was in labor, she made me keep track of how far apart they were...They were a lot closer than I thought, about 15 minutes. All day until 10:30pm they were the same 15 minutes apart, but then when I called to tell Jake goodnight they started coming every 5 minutes. I thought to myself that I would be fine, that I would take a nice relaxing bath and go to bed, and then when it got worse I would go in. But that plan didn't work, I guess that just because you plan for it to go like that it doesn't. The contractions kept coming every 5 minutes and the back labor was horrible! Finally at 12am I was ready to go get checked up, I still thought that I would get sent home though. So I texted my Aunt Karen to see if she would drive me to the hospital, and if she was asleep I had planned on driving myself (what a joke!). So she drove me to the hospital, I didn't even take my bags because I thought they would just send me home. 
Well, we got to the hospital and I got checked in and I was dilated almost to a 4, so they kept me! Gosh, none of the things I had planned were happening! Great, just my luck! So I was now at the hospital with my husband in Oregon, no hospital bags, now 3 days past my due date! Hmm...what else could go wrong?
This is the first time I saw her....
