Ellie Rose is Here!!

Ellie Rose is here! Ellie was born on July 6, 2005, a rainy, cold Wednesday. I woke up in the morning with contractions that were about 3 minutes apart. We picked up Auntie Rachel to watch Eric and then we went to the hospital where I got hooked up to the monitors and an IV. I was just glad that I was dilated to 5cm so I wouldn’t be sent home again. (We had a false alarm on June 22nd) The nurse predicted Ellie would be born by 2pm… not the case. I had contractions all day and they started to get painful in the afternoon so I had an epidural. Andrew noticed that my epidural was leaking on the floor. I knew something was up because I could still feel my legs and with Eric I couldn’t. Anyways, they hooked it back up again but I was already 8cm and the doctor decided to break my water at 5pm. The doctor had me lie on my left side to try to get Ellie to turn a little bit but she didn’t like that and started moving around a lot which was very painful for me!! So I needed oxygen because I was crying and in a lot of pain. The contractions were really painful and all of a sudden I felt like pushing. Dr. Diaz came in (the same doctor who delivered Eric) and I was screaming and crying.. she told me to stop crying and get mad and push her out. After 3 pushes and a ton of pain Ellie came out crying! She was 19 inches, 6 pounds 13 ounces. Perfect. 9 and 9 for Apgar scores. Andrew got us a Lazy Man Lobster dinner from the Chateau and we ate it together in the hospital to celebrate. Dad said when they were babysitting Eric the night Ellie was born Eric dragged over my dad’s coat and Eric’s little yellow water shoes and said ‘Mama’ because he wanted to go see me. What a sweet boy he is. We are so lucky to have Eric and now Ellie!