Our sweet Holland Estelle Green was born on Tuesday night (my due date) at 11:25. She was 8 lbs 4 oz 19” long. I wasn’t expecting to go into labor on my own and I was just waiting until I could get induced on Wednesday morning, but on Tuesday afternoon my water broke at 3:45. I was so excited when it broke because I knew I wouldn’t have to be induced the next morning anymore! My contractions started pretty quick after my water broke so we headed straight to the hospital. I had to wait in a triage room for a couple of hours because they didn’t have any open rooms! It was a crazy busy day to have a baby I guess.
When a room finally opened up I was having even stronger contractions but I was still only 5 cm dilated. I was pretty frustrated that I hadn’t progressed very much in those 2 hours. I had to wait another hour to get an epidural because the anesthesiologist was way busy giving the other 20+ ladies epidurals. Once I got the epidural I started getting really light headed and I almost passed out a few times because my blood pressure was so low. So I had to lay down on my side for the rest of the time. At 10 p.m. the doctor checked me and I was only at 6 cm. Then during the next hour I started feeling a lot of pressure from the contractions and the nurse checked me at 11 and I was ready to start pushing! I pushed a couple of times and then Holland came right out.
Holland has been such a good baby. She is so sweet and doesn’t cry a lot. Carly loves her most of the time. I made the mistake of calling Holland sweetie while I changing her and Carly heard and said, “No mama I’m your sweetie!” She got pretty mad and has been a lot more clingy to Casey instead of me. Hopefully she’ll warm up more to me and Holland soon.
I am so grateful for Casey he is an amazing birth coach!
My sister Brooke came along to be a part of the birth. It was fun having her there to help and lighten the mood.
They had flavored ice chips -you could add snow cone flavors to the ice! They helped to keep me from passing out!
We were lucky to have a lot of people come visit us in the hospital: The Bergeses, The Whiteleys, Our bishopric, The McNeils, and The Edgmons.
4 comments:
So cute! I can't believe you're the mama of two!
Fun pictures! I hope Holland stays a happy baby for you.
Congratulations!! I love her name, so cute.
Congrats! She's a doll! That has always been my favorite girl name and I've been waiting to use it but keep having boys! If I do get a girl then I promise I'm not copying you:) You are such a cute family!
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