Logan's Birthday!

We found out at our 38th week appt that we were being induced on Friday, November 26th. Our doctor was on call Thanksgiving weekend so she thought that was as good a day as any. We had a great thanksgiving with Papa T, Tootsie, Todd, Josh and Ginger and then woke up early on Friday to head to the hospital. We got there at 7 am and were hooked up to the Pitocin by 8. We were hooked up to a heartrate monitor for Logan and a contraction monitor for me. I guess they were watching the strength of the contractions at the nurses station cause every 15-30 minutes they would come and up the dosage. We started the day only dilated about 2 cm so we had a long ways to go. At about 9:30, my doctor came in and broke my water. There wasn't a lot of fluid, but she was pretty sure she had gotten it because she said that she could feel hair!! That was our first indication of what was to come!

The contractions definitely got more intense after that and I got the heavenly epidural around 11:30am. All the pain (and feeling from the waist down) went away and I was able to get a little rest. We had a scare around 5pm when Logan's heart rate dropped suddenly. The nurses rushed into the room and put me on oxygen. An internal heart rate monitor was placed on Logan's head and her heart rate quickly came back up. They determined that the reason this occurred was that Logan had gotten much closer to birth in a really short amount of time. They told us that we were at 9.5 cm and about to start pushing. We quickly texted Trey's parents and Todd to let them know that it was time for them to head up to the hospital.

All of the delivery team left the room for about 20 minutes to give us just a little more time for Logan to rest and for me to dilate that last little bit. At 10 minutes to 6, my nurses came back in and we started pushing. They had turned the pitocin off when Logan was in distress and my contractions were now pretty far apart. They brought me back on the pitocin to speed up the contractions and we pushed regularly for the next hour.

Logan Paisley made her amazing appearance at 7:03 pm on Novermber 26th, 2010. She weighed 6lbs, 12 oz and was 19.5 inches long. She started crying right away which was a good sign because we knew she had some meconium present in the amniotic fluid. Our tiny peanut was deemed officially perfect and Trey went out the the waiting room to let his family know she had arrived.

We got moved into a post partum room, which was pretty nice as far as hospital rooms go, and Logan met Papa T, Tootsie, Uncle Todd, Josh and Ginger for the first time. We stayed in the hospital for another day and a half and Logan also was visited buy Uncle Troy and Aunt Jenn. She's had about 3000 pictures taken of her so far, with no signs of that slowing down!

On Sunday, we got discharged from the hospital and got to head home. All of us are doing well, including mommy- I'm feeling surprisingly good! Logan's been doing great and we're trying to get some sort of schedule established. Tootsie has been staying with us this week and helping out. Daddy went to work for a little while yesterday after we visited with the Pediatrician. He really hated leaving us and rushed home as soon as he finished with his patients.

We're staying put at the house for a while but are welcoming all healthy, germ free visitors!! Give us a call if you want to stop by!