Lorelei Rose

Our new little angel is here. FINALLY! Only 3 days past her due date.

Lorelei Rose Lillis was born May 11th at 6:49 pm. 7 lbs 6 oz and 21 1/4.

So I had an appt the day before my due date and I thought for sure I should have been dialated more then the last time. Nope! I was so upset. Gigi was born the day before her due date and everyone always told me that second babies comes sooner and quicker then first babies. So where was my baby!? So we left with an appt for the following monday (4 days away) and a schuduled induction for wednesday night into thursday morning. sigh. I was terrified of being induced since I heard it hurts and can take forever and more then likely ends in a c section. :(

Her delievery was pretty amazing. I woke up (monday morning, the morning of my next appt.) to go to the bathroom at about 630 am and when I sat up my water broke! I have always heard about those woman who are asleep and hear a pop when their water breaks but since its so rare for your water to actually break on its own I didnt think mine ever would. But it did. and it was cool but gross and scary. Cause I knew contractions were next and that when there is no water they hurt like hell. So I got Tom up and we started scrambling around trying to get our last minute items packed. I woke my mom and let her know we were heading out cause she would be there when Georgia got up.

Off we went to the hospital! When we got there we were put in the triage room. This is where they check you and decide whether to keep you or not. Apparently there is this test they can do to tell if your water really broke. Well the nurse did the test and NEGATIVE for amniotic fluid. HOLY CRAP! you mean it didnt break??? so what was it? She said what could have happened was when I sat up to get out of bed, the baby could have been sitting right on my bladder and I might have just peed myself. EXCUSE ME! I could not believe that. How disgusting and horribly embarrassing. We had called all the family on the way to the hospital cause thats how sure I was it was my water breaking. I was so embarrassed.

We left the hospital, I think I cried. maybe not, maybe I just laughed. I cant remember. We still had our appt to go to at 1030 that morning. I was hoping the doctor could "help it along". We called off family, who laughed a little but also felt bad for me. We stopped at Redbox so that I could get a bunch of movies and stay in bed all day and feel sorry for myself. haha I got a package of twizzlers and mint tums (i was slightly addicted to them at the end) and 3 movies. We went home and got Gigi ready to go to Nanas. She was going to the dog park while we went to my appt. I went about my business like I do everyday. I noticed I was ummm, losing fluid through out the morning (sorry to those weak stomached people reading this haha).

Tom and I got to the doctors office and told her the story and even she said that it sounded like my water broke. she also said she doesnt always believe the nurses at the hospital. They cant do a good test that checks for sure. She said she was going to check me and then check the fluid under a microscope. when she came back she said it tested positive as amniotic fluid and that what I had was prob just a very small slow leak. So she said she was going to send us off to the hospital. YAY!!! we were finally going to have a baby AND I didnt pee on myself!

So we called the family again and let them know that it wasnt a false alarm and Lorelei was finally coming.

We came home and got all our stuff, again, plus the movies I just got since distraction is key to labor for me. haha

So we got to the hospital, they got me hooked up to all my stuff. Since I wasnt having any contractions they put me on pitocin. My nurse said she would up it every 30 min and that in about 2-3 hours i should start REALLY feeling them and they should be close and strong. well she was wrong. prob an hour later it was like all hell broke loose and they were coming every 2-3 min. At one point she stopped the pitocin (i think this was when I was getting my epidural) and they were still coming, which meant my body had taken over and was doing the contractions on their own. So I got my epidural and TOmmy and I went back to watching Benjamin Button (which i didnt like by the way, and not b/c I was having bad bad contractions but b.c its basically Forest Gump with Brad Pitt.). Well about 15 min later I realized that I could still feel all the contractions on my left side. So we called the nurse back in, and she called the epi dr. doctor back in (ok it was a different lady cause my first lady was in a c section with twins.) So they gave me a shot of something that was supposed to help but it didnt so back in they came and they decided the only thing to do was take the one OUT and start over. FSFNRDGNRITHWERJAASKD! holy hell this was gonna hurt. The contractions had obviously gotten worse over time so I was in a ton of pain (at least on one side) and now they were going to do the entire epidural over again. waaaa

But once she got it in, I was in HEAVEN! it was a beautiful thing. So all this happened at around 530ish. They had checked me at 515ish (right before I got the second epidural) and the nurse said I was still only 4 cent.

At about 630 I noticed the heart monitor wasnt picking up anything. So I called the nurse and she came in, she wasnt really worried, said that the baby prob just moved. So she tried for a few min to find it. While she was doing that, my other nurse and Doctor came in. The doctor thought maybe she would check me real quick. Well she did and said "OH WELL, UM there's a baby! right there" She told the nurse to get stuff ready and they both started scrambling around getting all the stuff ready. I started getting nervous cause Im always afriad of the pushing part of labor. Like I wont be able to do it or it will hurt too much. haha

Well the doctor told me to push on the next contraction, so I did and everyone started yelling, Tommy said "oh my god there she is!" the doctor said something like "ok stop pushing" the nurse said "megan look down at your baby". and there she was! Both the nurse and doctor started laughing cause it was literally less the half a contraction before she was completely out. The nurse kept saying "I cant believe it, one minute you were 10 cent. the next minute your baby was here".

Lorelei had to be handed over right away to the baby nurse that was there b/c there was meconium when she came out. So they suctioned her. and I couldnt even breathe. Toms cousin had meconium and was rushed to another hospital and it was very dangerous and scary. Apparently baptized in the hospital cause they were that worried. So I waited and waited for them to say she was ok. Tom was standing with her. they finally said she was ok and thats when i asked tom about her lip and feet which were both perfect!

Here are some pics of her.

Enjoy and I will add more later.