She’s here 👶🏻💕

Our baby girls due date was February 6th. Arianna came a tiny bit early at 39 weeks 1 day. She’s arrived at 7:01pm January 31st, 9lbs.6ozs 20.1/2 inch’s! She is our 3rd and biggest with so many little chunky rolls! 😍

Due to flu restrictions at our hospital we can’t have our little ones come up and we are limited to only a few visitors. So it feels alittle different not having our whole family here but we totally understand it’s what’s best during this time!

Labor: At my 39 week check up 1/30/2018 my OB sent me to l&d.; I was admitted due to high blood pressure. We had to wait in triage from 1pm- 6pm just monitoring me. My blood pressure was high, then would normalize, and then after a hour for no reason my b/p would spike up for a bit really high (169/99) then tread to normal. It was weird because I haven’t had any b/p issues at all! So we got admitted at 6pm and they started induction at 9pm. I was strep b positive so they started me on vancomycin since I’m allergic to penicillin. It made me extremely itchy and bright red but once the dose was over it all subsided. They had me do the Foley balloon catheter since I was already dilated. I was dilated to a 2 for the last month! Let’s just say it was very uncomfortable but I stuck it out. The foley will dilate you to a five and fall out. It fell out at about 5am... Then they started me on pitocin at 10am 1/31/2018. I was so lucky to not feel any contractions at all just slight pressure. The monitor was showing I was contracting nicely. I could feel my belly tighten up hard but since this was my 3rd I thinking I built up that pain tolerance. So from 10am-4pm I was fine and they cranked that pitocin up to 17 before deciding to brake my water. I was contracting 5 times a minute and had not felt any of it till my water broke at 4pm. Then it was intense the first contraction after my water broke took my breath away. They placed internal monitors so I could get the belly bands off. One on her head for her oxygen and one on the uterus wall for contractions. I wanted to stick it out and not get an epidural so we did some motivational videos, moving positions, and music for a whole 2 hours. They checked me at 6pm and I was only at 6 centimeters dilated! So I barely made any progress. The contractions was horrible for me at that point and I figured this was going to be a long labor... I openly excepted the epidural cause I wasn’t making great progress at all. At 6:20pm Anastasia came in to place my epidural. It took about 20 minutes for him to set up, place everything, and give me that first dose. They had me lay down after 10 minutes I told them it’s just not working. I felt intense pressure down there like I had to go poop. And as I was explaining it my baby’s oxygen dropped! Nurses and my OB came running in. They check and I’m crowning! She wasn’t getting oxygen so they threw a cpap mask on me. Told me to start pushing even though I wasn’t in position... the nurses threw my legs up and everyone was throwing off their jackets and gowning up! It was intense seeing people running in and I had this huge mask forcing me to breath! After 3 very long hard pushes she was out in just 11 minutes after I sat down from getting my epidural. It was the scariest and wildest Labor we didn’t expect.

She came out blue but cried right away and pinked up. She’s one chubby little girl 💕

Best of luck and good wishes to the rest of you February mamas still waiting for your little ones 😍👶🏻