Wow... Long Time No Post!!

I never like bloggers like me. This whole pregnancy I've been terrible at keeping a current blog. I had great ideas from chronicling my Gestational Diabetes Journey to posting favorite freezer meal recipes and documenting my making of those meals...

BUT

I'm not pregnant anymore (which means I'll be even busier, but have adorable pictures to show!)

Sofia Joy joined our family on May 25th.
She weighed 8lb 1.1oz and was 20in long!

Thanks to the GD, we planned to induce baby right on the 39 weeks mark. Although I had made 4 earlier visits to Labor & Delivery (one around 26 weeks for what I thought were contractions, one on Mother's Day for leaking fluid which didn't end up being amniotic, one later that week for constant painful regular contractions that didn't make any progress after walking for 2 hours, and one a week later for dehydration caused contractions that I had thanks to being outside a lot and having no clue I was dehydrated!), baby decided to stay put until the induction date.

We got to the hospital a bit after 8am and started the check-in process. We had a training nurse so everything took a little longer than normal, but my contractions were still just the same as they'd been for 2 weeks so it wasn't too bad!

We started up on pitocin around 10am. I was 4-5cm and 75% at that point.

At noon my epidural was delivered as Mike enjoyed lunch in the cafeteria (he missed the whole thing! Good thing I had a great set of nurses and a wonderful doc doing the procedure!)

At one Dr. Wing broke my water (a strange strange thing...). My Blood Sugar went super low as well as my blood pressure (thanks epidural) so I got some popsicles and epinephrine and felt better.

At 2:45 I was about 7-8cm and Dr. Wing thought we'd have a baby before suppertime.

At 3 I wanted to push (again, something new for me!)

At 3:15 I started pushing

At 3:30 Dr. Wing gowned up

At 3:51 Sofia arrived sunny-side up

What a fast and easy delivery compared to all the complications and length of Bekah's! Everything was much more relaxed and dare I say it normal which was a huge blessing.

Sofia's blood sugars stabilized on their own and we were all able to go home on May 27th.

Bekah has been GREAT with her sister. She really loves her. She's gotten over the fact that crying is loud. She hasn't figured out that mommy can't snuggle her WHILE nursing Sofia though...

Just now Sofia was downstairs and Bekah and I were upstairs and Sof started to cry. Bekah said "Oh mom, she's just hungry again."

Hehe. A little mother in the making.