... and boy is she hungry and sleepy. She nods off while nursing and then she wakes up just as I get into doing something else and wants to eat again. She does however give me either a couple of 3 hour or one 5 hour stretch of sleep after 10 PM so I feel pretty rested. The first week she was home we went shopping a lot. She loves riding in the car and shopping carts, she falls right asleep.
The labor was sort of long around 24 hours from the time I had steady contractions until she was born. I was stalled at 3 centimeter dilation from about 12 noon until about 8 pm. At 7 pm the Dr. had punctured my water membranes and the contractions immediately became stronger and closer together. After an hour of that they said they wanted to give me pitocin. I was having trouble with the contractions at that point, I think I stopped breathing and was just screaming. So I asked for the sweet and wonderful drugs, they gave me an epidural and I fell fast asleep. At some point after the epidural they gave me the pitocin but I didn't even know it. Then they told me it was time to push, the epidural had begun to ware off but not much. I could barely feel the contractions. I pushed for about and hour and fifteen minuets, the Dr. showed up at the last minutes and before I new it Keira Elean was here. She was so alert. Before I knew it she was nursing and did so what seemed like continually for the next two days. We stayed in the hospital for two nights.
Now we are home and getting into a routine.
In other news Mom's been hard at work and now is presenting the worlds fanciest diaper bag...
