Introducing Sara Isabella!

Sara was born on Oct 24th at 2:17am! She weighed 6 lbs 10oz, 19 inches long and has a full head of dark hair!

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Labor/Birth
Vince and I had a date night on Friday night (one last one before Sara got here). We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at Black Angus and then went to a movie later. My parents had the kids overnight! I had started having some contractions right before and during the movie. We got home and went to bed @ 1:30am. Two hrs later I was woken up by contractions...we started to time them and weren't too intense at that point. But they were about 10-15 apart so we called the Dr and went to the hospital at 5am. I was dilated to a 1 and 80% efaced. They monitored me for about 7 hrs and I wasn't making progress....so I was sent home. The nurse didn't think it would too much longer. They gave me a muscle relaxer to help relax my uterus. We got home and I took a bath and tried to sleep a little. My contractions had started to get more intense and a little closer together. I was in pain and about 4 hrs after we were home, my contractions were about 5-7 min apart and INTENSE! We decide to head back to the hospital and thinking they would send me home again. I got their around 5pm and I was dilated to a 2 and 90%-100% efaced. I had made progress so they were keeping me!
They got me in my room and the epidural was coming! It was challenging for the Anesth to administer the epidural because of my scoliosis, but she got it and it turned out perfect and didn't really hurt too bad! Soon after that took effect they checked me again and I was surprised to hear that I was at a 3 1/2-4 cent. About 4 hrs later they checked me again and every one was shocked to find out that I was fully efaced and at a 9! WHAT! I couldn't believe it! The epidural was wearing off a little and they gave me another dose at this point. I got to a 10 within an hr later and they had me do three practice pushes. I did really well (even though I couldn't feel a thing) so they decided to call the Dr back. They let the baby descend down on her own. About an hr later, the Dr was there and asked me to push three times again....I was completely numb but did really well...three pushes later (not more than 10 min) I had given birth to our baby girl! I couldn't believe it!
It was amazing! She had a delicate little cry and is so perfect! I couldn't believe it when they placed this tiny baby on my chest! Daddy cut the cord!
So, I was in labor all in all for about 12 hrs and pushed for 10 mins! Wohoo!
It was an amazing experience and the worst part for me was the labor pain :(
I delivered at Sacred Heart and the nurses were wonderful!

My milk started coming in Mon morning (day 2) and full on this morning! Nursing is great, but painful right now. I'm fighting through the pain at the moment and can't wait for it to pass!

We got home yesterday afternoon and it's definitely an adjustment having three kids. Last night was really rough :( We didn't get to bed until 6:30am due to Sara suffering gas pains! It was horrible :( We got some gas drops today and hope that helps!