Mayday Mayday

Momma status: happily sleeping with a steady flow of an epidural

Pain level: 0!!!

What's-a-goin' on: So I guess I didn't think out this Blog thing too well... When there's a lot to write about, there's no WAY that I'm going to leave Jamie's side. So you're left with this, latent recaps of the wonderful events of the past 6 hours.



Well Jamie got to spend some time with some pretty serious contraction before the nurse have her Sordahl to take the edge off, that worked for a couple hours and then they came back with a vengeance. It was weird though to see her sleep soundly and the wake up as if she hadn't missed a beat whenever a contraction came... Then Right back to REM.



Then admittedly, the contractions got Really strong. It was so hard to see my baby in so much pain. And to make things worse, there was nothing that I could do about it!



Thank God for Dr. Lee



She got here just in time when Jamie got frustrated with the 2nd and unsuccessful dose of Sordahl. She administered the epidural and Jamie was pain free within 15 minutes.



Thank God. Literally. We are blessed with so many wonderful people around us; the nurses, the doctors and our amazing moms have been here by our sides since the very beginning.



Now that she has relaxed with the epidural and is sleeping she is making some good progress. The baby is now Finally in the birth canal and her cervix is 90% effaced and dilated to 3 cm!



Based on her mother and sister, the baby shouldn't be too far away! So it looks very likely that our baby will be born on May Day 2008, the feast day of Saint Joseph the worker.



Baby I can't wait to see you!



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