Thanks for all the well-wishes, my friends. Right now the ladies are asleep. Natalie, having been awake for close to 48 hours straight, just got to sleep. I'm trying to keep the little one from fussing while checking in with y'all.
What a whirlwind. We show up at the hospital at 6am in order to break Nati's sack and start the process. By 9:30 everything is underway...
Wow...just changed my first diaper all alone while mama slept.
Anyway...at 930, Nati was 4cm. When the Doc came back at 1, she was still 4 and Doc told us that if she hadn't gotten to 7 by 5 when he returned, he was going to do a c-section.
Nati was VERY emotional and did NOT want to be cut, so when the nurse checked her at 4pm, and she was still only 5cm, we got worried.
When Doc arrived at 5 (okay, Bella just woke up wanting boob--had to hand her off) he knew we would prefer to wait, and advised us against causing the baby any possible distress. He checked her, Nati's delivery hinging on how dilated she was, and found she was 6cm. He told us we would go vaginally. 5 minutes later, he checked her again and she was already 8cm...and you know that Bella came at 6:29pm.
Man, I tell ya...the tension was fit for a MOAB
Sure enough, though, Bella came safe and sound, healthy and whole. She weighed in at 6.5lbs and reaches 18.5".
The Doc was great...and for that, there's a new XM-18 flipper on it's way to him, thanks to Matt D and Rick Hinderer himself.
And no...I did NOT use a knife to cut the cord, but if I had been able to, it would have been one of my XM's, which is all I have on me right now. Doc woulda loved a mistress, though. He's pretty tacticool.
