No matter how many children you have, this never gets to be old hat! The birth of a child still has this crazy life changing, world flipping effect on you as it does with any children. Avery Claire has captured all of our hearts. We are completely in love right now.
The abbreviated birth story is that I went in the morning of Decemeber 9th to be induced since I was a week and 1 day past my due date. I snapped this picture of myself before leaving for the hospital...
Look how high she is sitting? She definitely didn't want to come out of there ha.
We got there, got into a room at about 10. My amazing nurse got me hooked up to the monitors and got my IV put in. As she walked in the room with the bag of pitocin... MY WATER BROKE! ha ha ha. Ironic. I was so in shock. I convinced them to let me wait to see if labor would begin on it's own. It didn't so we did end up using pitocin. They gave me a small dose and increased it gradually, but baby wasn't handling the pitocin very well even in small doses, so we ended up having to shut it off, but it didn't matter. Labor had picked up. There was a brief scare where things got really painful for me and could have ended in a C-section... Avery tried to flip transverse breech on us during labor ha. She ended up re-engaging and everything turned out alright in the end. Labor started at about 2pm I delivered my healthy 8 lb 8 oz baby girl at 7:44pm. 20.5 inches long... she was my biggest baby yet. I love her to pieces and can't get enough of looking at her. She has stolen my heart. It's amazing to me how even though I have been there done that, the birth of a new baby is still so wondrous and evokes the strongest emotions we are capable of feeling. This part of having a baby is something I will always treasure. I know I complain about the rest, but this part... you will get no complaints from me.
So without further ado... I give you the photos that mainly Dave took of our day in Labor and Delivery on the birthday of Avery Claire.
updating the masses of the progress...
looking a little worse for wear ha. Contractions had picked up and the ordeal with trying to figure out if she was transverse or not was PAINFUL... so I may or may not have cried... even sobbed a little... I was making it though.
My AMAZING nurse. She seriously was awesome! All of my nurses were!
Thinking "really Dave, you are taking a picture now?" ha.
Fresh out of the oven... and I am completely in love.
The best Dr. in the WHOLE UNIVERSE! So glad Dave snapped this! :)
Now for the CUTENESS OVERLOAD!!! Dave took all of these too and I LOVE them so much. I need to get some of them framed. So awesome!
This concludes my pregnancy journey. It's been quite the experience, and I'm so glad to be in the next phase.
She is gorgeous, congrats!!
ReplyDeletemy oh my shes beautiful!
ReplyDeleteShe is so so beautiful! Congrats!!
ReplyDeleteI just love that baby! So cute...those little lips...oOOOHHH! I also love the pic of your more grown babies peering over to see the new baby. That seriously is heart melting adorable! I am so happy for you and your family. I am very grateful to God that my dear friend and her delightful-light-up-your-day-just-by-seeing-her-picture baby are safely through the delivery process! Hearts, Janna Lynn (a.k.a. Strange Far Away Blog Aunt Janna to Avery hee hee).
ReplyDeleteawwww! so cute! so happy for you all. she's so perfect. that yawn picture kills me. congratulations for the millionth time! i hope you get lots and lots of rest. and avery claire? OH MY GOSH. cutest name combo ever ever.
ReplyDeletecongrats she is beautiful!!!!
ReplyDeleteHooray! Congrats, girl!
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She is absolutely gorgeous! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteShe is adorable! Welcome to the world Avery! Great job, Amy.
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad that Ant and I could be there. Love you all. Can't wait to hang out :)
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful!! Hope mama and baby are doing great and resting :-) Congrats!!
ReplyDeletecongratulations, mama!! :)
ReplyDeletecongratulations amy!! she is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! she is precious :)
ReplyDeleteI am so proud of you, and so happy for your family! Avery is beautiful! I loved looking through all of these photos..the one of Brendan and Lindsay looking at Avery is my favorite. Such a sweet moment! <3
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see you again and meet little Avery [I still can't believe you have a baby again, haha!]. Love you so much!
Cuteness overload is right!! She's just a cheeky little thing isnt she? So beautiful, what a little blessing <3. I'm so happy for you and can't wait to meet her!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! She's beautiful! I'm so happy for you
ReplyDeleteWOOHOO! Welcome to the world, little Avery! She's so cute, and you got some great photo's of the birth! Good job, mama (and papa), your whole family is very beautiful :)
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! Welcome, little Avery! The world has been waiting for you!
ReplyDeleteShe is perfect! I am so happy for you guys! Love all the pics! So super sweet! Enjoy coming home and having her with you now! xxx
You are so blessed Amy! These photos made me get all teary eyed for you! So precious! Welcome little Avery!
ReplyDeleteAwww! She's so beautiful! I'm so glad everything went well!! I've been waiting with crazy anticipation for this post, and now I can't wait for more!
ReplyDeleteshe's just beautiful! congratulations Amy. I'm so happy for you and your family. What beautiful photos, I'm so glad you have them to look back on.
ReplyDeleteOmg congrats!!! She is so beautiful, seriously. Way to go Mama!
ReplyDeleteAh! So glad she's here! What a beauty. x
ReplyDeleteLove that you posted the birth story already and I enjoyed reading it! :) I still think it's amazing that your water broke on its own! And that whole thing where Avery moved around and went breech on you is crazy. I've never heard of that happening.
ReplyDeleteProud of you for sticking it out so long. Now that Avery is here we can just laugh at all the things you came up with to try to get her out. :)
She is a doll baby and I absolutely love her. She is precious. The photos that Dave took are so great. I can't stop smiling every time I see them.
So glad she is here!
oooh how cuuuuute :D she's adorable!! ugh, must go make baby now! :D
ReplyDeleteShe is absolutely gorgeous and I'm so glad that you are all doing ok! Dave got some amazing photos! Oh and was this doctor the one that you had before?
ReplyDeleteCongratulations, she's lovely!
ReplyDeleteAnd Amy, you in no way look like you're in labour here! You look great! What a trouper :)
Looking forward to seeing more cute Avery updates!x
So happy for you all!
ReplyDeleteAvery is beautiful, you must be so proud! Congratulations! :)
I keep saying this, but it is true: she is so beautiful! I'm very happy for you guys. The photos are SO cute!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations.
Congratulations. She is gorgeous!
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She's so precious, Amy! Glad she's finally (!) here :)
ReplyDeleteAMY! I am so so so so happy for you and your family! These lovely pictures are making my throat get all tight and little tears are trying spring forth from my eyes. Nothing like a fresh, newborn baby. Avery is so wonderful and I hope that everyone is adjusting really well! Congratulations!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to you all on baby Avery. She is beautiful. So happy for you all. :)
ReplyDeleteAhhh...yes, I teared up! I hate being MIA...& why oh why was I MIA for this?! I saw on IG though. She look like you Amy, already! She's SO beautiful & you are so amazing. I'm so happy for you! Gosh, this is just amazing. & hey, here on out you are free flying! That's so cool that Dave got the shot of your doc since he was there for all three, right? So cool!!! Loves & hugs! <3
ReplyDeleteAmy, she is SO gorgeous! Congratulations!! I'm happy she finally decided to arrive! <3
ReplyDeleteMaybe I just got a little tear in my eye...aww
ReplyDeleteokay i have no idea how i missed this post! She is gorgeous Amy. Congrats!!!!
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