Violet A.

Yep, my baby girl is here!
Which is probably the reason I haven't been able to update this thing. I figure my excuse is a valid one. It all began on May 17th. I started having contractions around 430pm. Cristian was out to lunch with his friends and his phone was dead. I know right? Awesome.
All good though, once they were timing at about 7 minutes apart we figured it was high time to try and get a hold of him. Luckily I was able to through his friend and we were home together in a few minutes sitting and timing, etc.

I've never had cramps before, so I wasn't particularly sure on when I was supposed to go in based on a pain scale. We headed in around 9pm when they were about 4 minutes apart. Up at the hospital they hooked me up to everything, watched me for an hour and then told us to go home. I was shocked. The lady also said if I made it to my next appointment ( four days later) to mention it to my doctor. I almost started laughing, though we did get in the car and head home.

Once there they began getting worse, peaking-for me- around 2 in the morning. I could barely walk and getting to the car, the ride there, getting out of the car, and making my way up to labor and delivery was pretty awful. Once back in there, and hooked up they confirmed that I was indeed in labor. Thank goodness to.

I tried to go natural, but after a few hours I could no longer focus and some anesthesia was the right thing to do. Somehow a few hours later they managed to get the epidural in. Cristian was a champ through the whole thing. Especially with the epidural. I COULD NOT have done that part without him. He held my hands and made me look at him and helped me breathe in and out. It was amazing that I lost the ability to figure that part out on my own. And the position they had me in to stick me with it made me feel as though I wanted to push. It was all very uncomfortable and physically traumatic. Once the epidural was in everything went numb and I passed out for the majority of the labor part. Once it came time to push I was up and ready to give it a try.

I pushed for about 20 minutes and out she slid at 1230pm.
I would try and describe how I felt about seeing her for the first time in detail, but it's not something I can do. All I can say is I've never cried so many tears out of sheer joy and happiness. And never felt so accomplished in my entire life. Or ever seen anything as beautiful as my sweet baby girl- in the entire world.

And that doesn't even come CLOSE to explaining the moment with justice.
It's been quite the transition. And I've had some hiccups along the way. Dealing with the doctors snatching her away here and there, not getting enough sleep, the families, etc. It's all part of the experience and I'm trying really hard to adjust but.. it is hard.
Anyways, we're working on it. And she's amazing.
Pictures to follow soon.

:D