Pay Day! 2 weeks, 5 days early Alexa Lynn was ready to face the world! On May 15 @ 7:19 p.m., 6 lbs, 6 oz. and 20 in, she surprised us all!! Impatient like her 'rents, but optimistic like her Dad as she came out face up! Mom is thankful she was tiny and healthy!! We named Alexa after Kersten's Dad Allen, and Lynn is her mother's middle name (we wanted to continue a middle name in the family and thought that was the best one that we knew of.)
The Details: It started at 1:00 a.m., mommy started having contractions which she thought were just because she had not gone to the bathroom in awhile. They eventually started into a pattern where she realized, oops, contractions...maybe we should finish packing our bag. So every 5-8 min. we had contractions then Dad woke up at 3:30 and helped mommy keep track by starting a log. Mom had tried to go back to bed, but it wasn't working so she did some minor cleaning. We stayed about 5 min apart and decided to call around 5:00. At times we were 3 min. We were told to go to the hospital, even though mom was tolerating pain very well as we had not felt BW move for quite some time. Even though Mommy thought we would be sent home and these were merely Braxton Hicks, she was wrong! We were admitted around 6 and got settled into our room. From there we continued contractions around 2:30 min. apart-5 min. until about 1 p.m. At that point we decided to increase the intensity and were put on Potosin which hadn't even gotten into mom's system when her water broke at 1:15 p.m. 12 hours after contractions had started. Then between the Potosin and water breaking her contractions picked up their intensity with minimal rest time. Mom had her epidural around 2:30, she was 3 cm dilated and 95% effaced telling Dad that he owed her! Mom squeezed in a nap as she was exhausted and when they checked again she was 8 cm!! Yeah for the Anesthesiologist and Epidurals!! A half hour later they were calling the Dr. and they started pushing around 6:15 and she was born an hour later. Phew! No cesearan, no episiotomy....minor issues...just a a plummet in blood pressure after Epidural, but all was good with BW the whole time! We were thankful for our Duola Julie even though Mom handled the pain very well through most, the emotional support and sounding board was tremendous! She will be making a house call in 2 weeks and calling this week.
This was an amazing experience and now we have a bundle of joy! We are enjoying our waking moments with Alexa and get to go home today! We have had a few visitors including Erika and soon to be Alexa's best friend Charlotte on Friday to help get our carseat in. She brought pretty tulips from her yard. Good focal point for mom! Popi and Nana Prochnow stopped by on Friday night at 9 and also on Sat. Tri Friend and prego Jodi stopped in on Sat, she looks great!! Grandpa Wuebben stopped in on Sat, but I think was afraid he break her so didn't want to hold her, but admired her from a distance. Grandpa and Grandma Wuebben will stop by on Monday, as Grandma will be back from her trip to the Dells. Tim and Stefie are planning on coming up today. Mommy is going to go get a little sleep now!
Lexi is a perfect little baby, although she was a little tongue tied in the begining we had the ENT Dr. stop by and fix that in a 5 min. procedure and now she is ready to go! She is sleeping soundly right now! When she wakes we will get her new outfit that Nana picked up and washed for her to go home in today. (Nana and Popi also hit the garage sale in Cedarburg that Mommy was planning on going to and picked up a few other things on Sat., Popi put together the swing too!) Pictures to be coming soon!!
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