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birth story. she's here! she was born on february 13 at 7:34 pm. she weighs 7 pounds 14 ounces and is 21 and a half inches long. her name is sarah elizabeth. after i get more organized and figure out how this stupid digital camera works i'll get a picture up here that isn't 10 thousand times too big. but for right now, here is a picture. it's not the best quality, but none of the digital cameras worked as well as i wanted them to. i want to know how so many people have such great quality of pictures from their digital cameras. that's the baby and josh's hand. here's the birth story! on wednesday, february 12, we went to the doctor, as mentioned earlier. so, that night at 9:35, josh and i left to go to the hospital. we got there a little after 10 and we went up to the birthing place and waiting in the waiting room for like an hour, which was horrible. so, they took us back to the labor and delivery room we would spend the rest of the night and next day in at like 12 or 12:30. they hooked me up to monitors, checked my cervix, which was now about 1 and a half centimeters. and noted that i was still having tiny contractions. so, they decided not to give me the suppository to soften my cervix, instead they would just get the pitocin going. so, they hooked me up to the pitocin. nothing happened. the contractions got more frequent, but not intense or anything. so they upped the dosage, and then decided to take me off of it. the contractions started to get more intense, but then they went back to just minor twinges. so, they tried pitocin again. this time it worked. i got to sleep some. and josh pretty much slept the whole night after 2:30 or 3. at about 5 i woke up because the contractions were more intense, but they weren't bad enough for anything. they just hurt more. so i figured i'd let josh sleep, not knowing how much longer everything would be. at about 9:30, though, i woke him up because they were really getting intense. and he was wonderful. he offered to rub my back, but i just didn't want him to. i wanted to be able to see him. after like an hour or so, i guess, the contractions got really bad and i wanted some drugs (woohoo for drugs!) but i was still only 2 centimeters, so they gave me this drug through my iv. i don't know what the name was. but it sucked. i hated it. it made me feel like i was on drugs or something. it was just awful. but i got some rest, but it only last an hour and half. the contractions came back really bad. so bad i started to cry when i had them. i never screamed or cursed josh out or anything, which people seem surprised at. i would just close my eyes and tears would come out. finally, it got really bad, and they gave me an epidural, which was a god send. that was at 3:30. i slept for a long while. and then the doctor came in to check my cervix, when she did that, my water broke all over her arm and hand. and she said 'well, you are 7 centimeters, your water broke, it shouldn't be long now!' that was at 7 o'clock. at 7:20, i started feeling this horrible pressure. the nurse checked my cervix and i was fully dialated! they said i could start pushing. so, they got me all prepped and everything and i started to push. it felt weird pushing. but i just tried to do what they told me to do. after like 40 minutes of pushing, the doctor came in, and then sarah's head started to crown, so she stayed in. that was worse than the contractions, when her head started to come out. when the doctor went to get ready, i was pushing, and her head was crowned a lot. and then all of a sudden, her head went back in and i started to cry and said 'she went back in!' and the doctor said 'no, i'm right here, i'm just getting ready.' and i said 'no not you! i don't care about you!' then she came back and they gave me some local and gave me an episiotimy and i pushed a couple more times and she was out. it was so wonderful when they put her on my chest, all goopy and slimey. i started to cry and so did josh. it was so wonderful to see her. she was so gorgeous. she is so gorgeous. josh was positively glowing and kept telling me i did such a great job. he cut the umbilical cord. they did the tests on her they needed to do, and josh was over taking pictures and i was laying there, looking at him and her, and it was just. wow. he didn't show too much emotion or attachment to her until that moment. it was wonderful to see. so i stayed in the hospital until saturday and we came home. and things have been going somewhat smoothly. as smoothly as can be expected. i'm emotional, and i don't want josh to go home at night. she slept great last night. 3 hour stretched between waking up. she sleeps in the bassinet at first, then when she cried she spends the rest of the night in my bed. she's just so precious. i love her to pieces. my dogs are kind of jealous, but they'll get over it. my beast milk has started to come in, so i'm engorged as anything. she doesn't cry too much. of course she has her fussy times, but the majority of the time she's just alert. the doctors and everyone are surprised at how alert she is. she looks around a lot. she's just so precious. she's sleeping in her bouncer next to me, and i keep looking at her. it hasn't sunk in yet. well, she's fussing and wants to nurse, so i'm going to go feed her. finally, the birth story! 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