Birth Story

*warning birth story- I tried to keep it short and not too descriptive but I'm wordy so.....

Friday morning I woke up to a few small gushes of water. It kept coming slowly so we headed to the hospital around 10:30am. When we got there, it was amniotic fluid but it had stopped coming. The nurses said it had probably torn and resealed itself and that it often does that right before it breaks. They kept me around a little hoping hoping it would go ahead and break but it didn't. I had a few major contractions while there but they were about 30 minutes apart. They sent us home around 12:30pm saying that they would see us back shortly!

We had a fun 4th of July- cookout with J's family, birthday celebration with my extended fam (for cousin Emily June 27, brother in law Brooks July 4, nephew Brody July 6 and Baby Girl Caskey who was represented with a pink question mark on the cake), and we got to go to our favorite 4th of July party. All day I had contractions that were intense and long (averaging 60 seconds) but not regular. A few times they had gotten to 5 minutes apart so we decided to send Kiran home with my parents to spend the night. We got home about 11pm and soon after my contractions started to regulate- every 8-10 min apart. They were pretty intense and long. Then they jumped to 2 min, 3 min, 2 1/2 min apart. I could tell my body wasn't dealing well with it- I was already shaking and getting nauseous so we headed back to the hospital. We arrived at 12:45 and I had dilated from 2-3cm that morning to 5cm. By 3am I had gotten my epidural (I loved it!) and we slept off and on till 6am. Unfortuntaely the epidural didn't do anything for the throwing up- this baby was going to make me throw up from day one till the very end. About 6:30am my water broke completely and I was 9cm. My dr arrived a little after 7am. I started pushing through contractions at 7:20 and she was born at 7:43am. Her head came out and then she tried to turn her body which caused a slight tear but that was it. Everyone in the delivery room was surprised at how big she was!

Someday I need to list out all the differences between Kiran's labor and delivery and Sienna's. It was all so completely different. Everything from the place and the culture to the way my labor started to how big the babies were. This birth was so calm and peaceful and pleasant. It was wonderful. My labor and delivery team was awesome. Our parents were all here and got to see Sienna right after she was born.

Now we are recovering and resting and we will head home from the hospital tomorrow morning. Sienna has checked out well so far and she likes for us to hold her all the time and not put her down. Maybe she will be our snuggly baby?