Eliza Leigh Gilliland
May 10, 2010
5:44 pm
7 lbs, 12 oz
20 inches long
After another epic-long labor, Eliza came bursting into the world, sunny-side up, on Monday evening. My water broke on Saturday night around 10:30pm, I had a bunch of contractions and was thinking this one was gonna be fast and furious, but to no avail...things sputtered out by morning. Robert and I spent most of Sunday walking, napping, and trying a few labor-induction techniques...again to no avail. So after 2 long nights of no sleep, Monday morning we took our time, went and got an adjustment from our favorite Chiropractor, and then checked in at the hospital to get everything checked out and make sure everyone was healthy. While being monitored, my Midwife suggested a prostaglandin cream, so we thought we'd give it a try. They applied the cream, and stuck me on the monitors to watch the baby for a couple of hours - I watched Law and Order, texted with my sister, and was starting to get bored and uncomfortable from laying on the lovely hospital bed, so Robert got the nurse to cut me loose. I got up and within a minute or two I was having some decent contractions...and a few minutes later was having some MAJOR ones, and 44 minutes after that, Eliza was laying on my belly, flailing around, and apparantly as annoyed by the nurses as I was. Why didnt we try this earlier!?! We left the hospital 4 hours later and were home and slept all night with just an hour feeding to break it up. So far she's a very mellow baby, loves hanging with her Daddy (he's warm and bouncy...good traits in a Daddy it seems) - which is also why Im able to type blog entry up. =) Welcome to our Family Eliza Leigh!
