Thursday, April 4, 2013

Dear Andie-
You just turned 3 months old the other day and we finally got a computer so I can start to write to you!
You are such an amazing baby.  Last night, you slept the whole night through! I don't think ive ever had a baby do that before 6 months old.  you were really hungry when you woke up though, and I had to rush after my run to get ready so I could feed you before you got really mad!
I was looking at the pictures from my labor with you and I should write down the story so I don't forget...
So you were due the 27th of December and I was bound and determined that you Not be born on Christmas.  Some people think that might be really neat, but I wanted you to have your own special day.  So we got through Christmas and I was ready for you to come, so I did the Castor oil thing in eggs, to try to start labor on my own so I wouldn't have to go through an induction like I did with Henry.
So my contractions started pretty fast after that, and a couple of hours later we were calling Grandma Smith to come over and watch your siblings so we could head over to the hospital.  By the time we got there, my contractions were really hard, and it was a bummer that my doctor wasn't on call to be there, but they had called the on call doctor to drive over to deliver you.  She got stuck behind an accident, so she had to take the long way around to the hospital, and by the time she got there, I was really ready to push. 
When she got there, she broke my water, and everything went really fast and scary after that.  The amniotic fluid was stained because you had taken your first bowel movement in utero.  And then when I was pushing your heart rate practically stopped, and they almost had to use forcepts to get you out.  I pushed only a couple of times, and the doctor said that the cord was around your neck, but she just had me push through it since you were almost all the way out.
When you came out, you were totally blue and covered with the meconium, and they didn't want you to cry because they didn't want you sucking any of it down into your lungs.  So they rushed you over to the little table and started sucking out the stuff from your lungs, for what seemed like forever.  Everyone kept saying that everything was ok, but is was really hard to believe them since all I wanted was to hear you cry!
Finnaly they got everything out, and they got you to cry and everything turned out ok in the end.i got to hold you, and you were my biggest baby yet, 8 pounds 14 ounces, and 20 inches long. Thank goodness that we have hospitals now days though, and that you were healthy and strong. 
You've been a great baby so far, and I and everyone else in the family loves you so much!

I love you,
Mommy

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