Zoe Rae finally made her debut!! She was born on Saturday April 24th at 7:15 pm. ( same day as my grandmas 80th birthday) She weighed in at 7 lbs. 6 oz and was 20.5 inches long. So far things have been great. She is a pretty easy baby so far, but we will see what happens when the boys are around. Here is the delivery story::
I was scheduled to be induced Friday morning. Unfortunately they did not have a bed ready. So we waited and waited... This same weekend my sister Cassi came in town for a weekend visit. So Saturday morning there was still no bed ready for me at the hospital, so we decided to All meet at my sisters and have a play date so all the kids could get together while Cassi was in town. About 2 o' clock i was jumping on the trampoline with the kids ( my sisters were convincing me that would put me into labor) the hospital finally calls and we are quickly on our way. I get to the hospital and get checked in and get situated in my room, when my doctor shows up. My grandma had made a small phone call to my OB to make sure that Zoe was born by midnight so that she could share a birthday with my grandma!! This would have been the 1st year my grandma would celebrate her birthday by herself, since her sister passed away last year and they shared the same birthday. So my doctor broke my water at 3 pm and started pit to help get contractions going. By 4 pm i had an epidural and was loving life!!! at 5:15 pm they checked me and i was only dilated to a 4. That meant i was only dilating 1 cm per hour. So we new we were in for the long haul. At 6:45 the nurse checked me again before shift change and i was at a 9.5 cm dilated. The doctor was called in and my sister made it about 5 minutes before the doctor. I pushed twice and Zoe was born at 7:15. What seemed like 5 minutes after they told me i was ready to go. Needless to say it was the fastest and easiest birth yet. She has been such a blessing and easy baby so far. Although i have not had my boys around yet to venture the feeling of having 3 kids around. The night that i delivered Zoe 7 of my family members came down with the flu :( Since then the flu has spread fast amongst my family and at this moment there are 15 members of my family down for the count with the flu including my 2 boys. So my boys have been at my in-laws so that myself and Zoe do not get sick. Roy is at my mother-n-laws house watching the boy until they get better along with my niece who was helping watch the boys all weekend. Zoe and I have been having some great bonding time together while everyone recuperates, but i definitely miss my boys. We had a great delivery and bad weekend with all the sickies, but are overall blessed with our little princess!!
