The Delivery Journey

Here is a little more detail to the arrival of baby Talia (pronounced Tah-lia). I had a scheduled induction on Sunday March 8th at 8pm. I sat around for 2 hours before they started anything so it wasn't until a little after 10pm that we got the process rolling. I was still dialated at a 5 when I got in but knew that the process would go fast for me. They started me on pitosin, got me my epidural and then broke my water. The epidural didn't exactly work and I let them know immediately because I wasn't about to deliver a baby without one. I went through 5-6 extremely painful contractions until the Anesthesiologist got back in to fix my epidural. That was the worst part of the delivery but aside from that...and this is going to sound bad, it was so easy! 3 hours, and 3 pushes is all it was. Andrew's delivery was a nightmare in comparison. I couldn't believe how fast everything went. It didn't even seem real. I feel like I only pushed twice because the first time I was still trying to figure out the breathing. I felt so blessed to have such a good delivery, and figured that was my break in this entire pregnancy since I was so sick for most of it. Here are some photos for the record.

I took this right before leaving to the hospital to get the belly shot that I avoided most of this pregnancy.

Here she is weighing 7lbs 8oz's and not too happy to be on that scale!

I love how happy and proud Andy looks in this photo.

For a moment here I thought she had curly hair but now it's straight.

This picture isn't exactly cute but unfortunately it is one of the only ones with Andrew in it. He was so excited to meet his baby sister, and this doesn't portray that since he is eating french fries but he was thrilled and had the biggest smile on his face when he saw her, I wish we could have gotten it on camera. He loves her so much and can't get enough of her, he is obsessed with her and I actually hope it wears off because all he wants to do is hold her, touch her hair, count her toes, try and climb into her crib with her...yes he is slightly excited!

Talia is a little darker than Andrew was when he was born, she'll most likely lighten up like her brother did but I love how dark she is right now and her full head of black hair.

Here she is in Nana's arms, as you can see my mom is thrilled with her new grand daughter!

I was dying to leave the hospital. I hate staying there because of all the interruptions of people coming in and out of the room at all hours etc... But my overall experience at Mountain View was very good. I'm glad to be home now and can't wait to continue updating on our newest addition to the family. She is an absolute jewel and I love her so much! The happiness I feel right now is undescribable! I feel like we have a full blown family and it is great!