Well, she is finally here! Corinne Mattea Emberger was born on Saturday, June 28th @ 3:02 in the afternoon. She weighed exactly 7 pounds and is 20 inches long. She is absolutely beautiful and we are so in love with her!!
I started having contractions at about 3:30 in the morning, and boy was in for a painful surprise. Contractions were nothing like I expected they would be!! When we got to the hospital around 6AM, the nurses had a hard time giving me an IV. They had to poke me 3 times before they got a weak IV and then the anesthesiologist had to poke (aka STAB) me a 4th time to get me an IV good enough to allow me to have an epidural. I did have some medicine in my IV that made me very loopy (I don't recommend it) and a very wonderful epidural that I am so thankful for!! I pushed for about two hours and just as I was about to push out the baby's head, another women who was sharing my doctor was pushing out her baby. So I had to hold my position for what seemed like hours (really only a few painful minutes (hey, epidurals aren't miracle-workers)) before I finally got to see my beautiful girl!!
Things have been wonderful and trying all at the same time. I absolutely adore this little girl and she is beautiful and alert and charming. But breast-feeding has been tough and sleeping even tougher and recovery ain't no joke! Please pray for us as Jason goes back to work tomorrow and I attempt to make it through my first 8 hours without his AMAZING help!!
2 comments:
you don't waste any time!! i guess you made it home. i didn't get a call, but i assume i take 2nd place now to this new chick you're hanging around with :)
Yeah! Welcome to the world Corinne! Love and God's best to the whole Emberger family!
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