Violet's Birth Story

We were so excited to welcome little Violet into the world at 4:39 am on July 2nd. Weighing in at 7 lbs 10 oz. and 20.5 inches long we think she is just perfect. On July 1st I went to my doctor appt and found out that I was still only 1 cm dialated. I knew my doc wanted to talk about inducing due to the baby's size but was shocked when she suggested I go home, grab my stuff and come right back to the hospital! Holy cow, I couldn't believe it was finally happening. I can't tell you how terrified I was. Although I was very excited I was pretty dang scared too. My doc told me to be prepared for a c-section due to my size and her size. I really didn't want it to come to that, one more thing for me to worry about. We headed to Sutter Roseville around 12pm and the doc immediately broke my water. Crazy how much water there is. Its like a hose turned on full force! I walked the halls of the hospital for about an hour hoping to get the contractions going. It's pretty funny when you are walking around with water running down your leg and squishing in your shoe. The nurses inserted a monitor internally to better gauge how strong the contractions were and I gotta say this was the most the painful part of the whole process. I pretty much bawled my eyes out. My contractions were beginning to be terribly painful but not consistently strong enough so they gave me pitocin to speed it up. Wowzer, the contractions about killed me at this point! I ended up getting my epidural, which they had to do twice because they couldn't get the catheter in. I was pretty scared of the epidural but it ended up not hurting even one tiny bit. The epidural was amazing! I felt pretty great after that besides nausea and the most intense shakes. I was literally shaking like a drug addict having a withdrawal! After that I just laid in bed and they kept checking me every couple hours. I progressed from a 3 to a 7 pretty quick and next thing I knew I was at a 10. Once again I got pretty scared about actually pushing her out. I ended up pushing for a good 2 hours, my mom, Justin and sister Jessica there with me the whole time. Pushing sure is hard work especially when you can't stop throwing up. You feel like you can't possibly do it and they keep telling you your getting closer but it doesn't seem like it! Finally out she came and they placed her on my chest. I can't even explain the feeling I had, it was the most amazing, best moment of my life. All that hard work and pain was now so worth it and I would do it all over again for this sweet little girl. After she was born things got pretty bad for a few hours, I got super nauseous and couldn't stop throwing up and got this horrific headache where I couldn't open my eyes. It was terrible, all I wanted to do was hold my baby and take care of her and I couldn't. It took awhile for us to get to our recovery room because I couldn't stand up to get in the wheel chair without passing out. A few hours later I started feeling better and was able to cuddle my sweet angel. She is perfect in every way and we are so excited for our new little family!