After a very long road we finally have our precious baby girl. Our journey started out on Sunday night (Oct. 19th) I went in for 2 treatments of Misoprostol which is supposed to help get things going and perhaps start labor. After 8 hours of treatment there was still no change. It was a little discouraging. Tuesday night my Dr. called and asked us to go to the hospital again and do 3 more treatments of the Misoprostol and then Wednesday AM we would see where that got us. Twelve hours of treatment and labor later, I was only between 2 and 3 centimeters. At 9am on Wednesday morning he broke my water to see if that would help move things along. Two hours later I was still only at 2 or 3 centimeters. I was then started on pitocin. YUCK!! Talk about uncomfortable labor. I was already exhausted, I was a week overdue and had pretty much been in labor for the past 3 days. I finally had to get an epidural because he wanted to crank up the pitocin as high as possible. My Dr. was awesome though, he knew how much I wanted to have her naturally and waited as long as he was comfortable with. At 6pm I was between 5 and 6 centimeters but our baby girl just couldn't move her head down because of my short waist. At 8pm he decided he couldn't let me go any longer and told me he needed to get her out as soon as possible. It was so heartbreaking but I just wanted her to be ok. At 8:24pm on October 22, 2008, Hailey Hall was brought into this world via c-section. Weighing in at 8 pounds 5 ounces and 20.5 inches long. It wasn't exactly what I wanted to happen but the moment I saw her it was all worth it. She was perfect - the most beautiful baby I have seen right after birth. My wonderful husband was in the operating room the whole time and didn't leave my side until he went with our daughter to give her her first bath and make sure she was ok. I could not have done this without him. I am so happy and blessed to have Hailey and Scott, I don't know what I would do without them.
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