Quinn McKenna Has Arrived Quinn is here! She arrived Monday, January 11th, 12:03 p.m. She weighed in at 6lbs 10.6 oz, 19.5 inches. Perfect, beautiful and a bundle of love and fun. This is just a quick snap and its a bit soft. I took this um..Wednesday of last week I believe. So she was 2 days old in this photo. I am ecstatic that she is here, and almost as ecstatic to no longer be pregnant. Ha! Yeah I don’t do pregnant so great, what can I say? I am not too proud to admit it either. She is a champion nurser, and even so she lost 6 ounces in 4 days. I personally think it was all meconium! I have never seen so much meconium come out of a newborn. Wow. She is gaining back again. I need to weigh her to find out where she is. The pedi weighed her Friday and she was 6lbs 4 ounces but my milk had just come in so she has gained since then. Quinn was “due” Wednesday and I was trying to go into labor all the week before. I was taking Fenugreek and Red Raspberry and it worked–plus the prayers of dozens of people! My OB was going out of town on the 14th and I really really didn’t want to have Quinn delivered by his office partner. So even though I did NOT want to be induced I had my doctor schedule me for induction on Monday at 7:30 a.m.. I went into labor at 4:20 a.m. YES! I woke Michael at about 4:40 after having 3 really strong contractions about 8 minutes apart and where at the 3rd one I felt liquid. I wasn’t sure if Quinn had kicked my bladder…ha..or if my water had broken. But that kind of made me think Umm ok this must be it. I called my OB and said “OK I am in labor…do you need to call the hospital and let them know I am coming in early and they won’t need to do the induction?” He said, “Go ahead in and they will get you set up.”Cool…we got to the hospital by 6 instead of 7:30 and by the 7:30 time I was probably a good 5 centimeters dialated and fully effaced. So by the time we made it to GBMC I was having contractions 3-4 minutes apart consistently and it was all in my cervix, just like with Brenna. As a matter of fact from time of starting labor to Quinn’s birth the timing was almost exactly like Brenna almost to the minute. The poor anestheologist had to stick me 7 or more times because my back is so calcified and jacked up the needles couldn’t go through to get the epidural to work. He kept apologizing and I told him I wasn’t hurting from what he was doing because the contractions were so strong and painful. He finally was able to get the epidural in high and although it didn’t take out the pain it went from a 10+ to a 1/2…til the did and internal monitor and Foley catheter. At that point it was like the epidural was gone…so the anes. came back and gave me five boluses of meds and it dropped the pain level down again. That worked about an hour and a half until she dropped all the way down when I was fully dialated. About 15 minutes after I had the nurse check me she started coming down even though I wasn’t pushing…and my OB was strolllllling in the door. Ha! I kept said “Ok where is Art? If he doesn’t get here soon I am going to poke him with a sharp stick…repeatedly.” I wasn’t pushing but she was dropping into the birth canal. He came in, gloved up, and I said, “OK good..I HAVE to push” (this in between nice painful contractions of course). THree pushes and five minutes and she was here. Yeah..I tore a bit top and bottom. Ouch. But that is ok. I will heal. She is here. Now I am sleeping again. For at least 2 months..probably 3 I was sleeping only 2 hours a night and man it was killing me. Non functioning. The day after she was born I was able to sleep again. Obviously something in my system was all jacked up. Seems MUCH better now. I actually slept really well last night, though I could use a nap at this point. :^) So I think I will go do that after I work on Brenna’s book report on The Scarlett Letter with her. Ta all.. hope to get in gear and post more. Heh. Well. I do hope I can get more “posty”. :^)
~Katt
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