Our Little Lady

Azucena certainly has a mind of her own and does little things to let me know that she's her daddy's girl already.

This started when she waited until the very last minute of her due date to actually start contractions (11:47 p.m. to be exact). They were about 7+ minutes apart and stayed that way until quarter to two in the morning when they started being 5 - 5 1/2 minutes apart. We finally woke Clark up at 5 in the morning and were at the hospital by 5:50 (we finished packing a couple of things, I snuck a piece of toast, we had a blessing). Got checked into a room by 6:30 a.m. and then the waiting game began.

Up to about 11 in the morning, they kept upping my dosage of petocin to try and hurry things along. However, at that point, the contractions were feeling pretty darn evil and they offered to get the anesthesiologist so I could have an epidural. I wasn't sure I wanted one so early since I was pretty much at a 3 still, but he had a c-section scheduled from 11:30 - 12:30 so if I didn't get one then, I'd have to wait until almost 1 in the afternoon. So, we got the epidural. :)

By 4 p.m. we STILL weren't progressing much, so they broke my water a few minutes later. THAT did the trick. An hour later I was at a 5 and an hour after that I was at an 8+. Around 8:30 p.m. I started to run a fever so they had me wait to push until they could get me attached to some antibiotics.

I finally started pushing at 9:10 and proceeded to try and get her out for the next hour and a half.

She came at 10:47 p.m. on June 8th (which is the one year anniversary of me and Clark getting engaged) and was 8 lbs, 4 oz, 21 inches long. She's adorable and here are two pictures for you to enjoy.