{"id":5350,"date":"2009-07-09T01:08:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T06:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/?p=5350"},"modified":"2015-04-08T22:42:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T03:42:55","slug":"our-gift-from-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/09\/our-gift-from-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Gift from God"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nine days past her due date, our family finally welcomed our new baby.\u00a0 She was born at 11:03 pm at 7 lbs 13 oz and 20 inches.\u00a0 She made a dramatic entrance in the world!\u00a0 I thought I’d share some of the birth story for anyone who might be interested.<\/p>\n

Jason and I went to a doctor’s appointment that afternoon where I was going to be monitored since I was over a week past my due date.\u00a0 After an ultrasound, we were told that we needed to talk to the doctor and were put in her office to wait.\u00a0 When she came in, she told us that there was no easy way to tell us that we needed to go right to the hospital and have a C-section right away.\u00a0 She said the ultrasound showed problems and we had to do this immediately.\u00a0 As she walked us out of her office to the door (me in tears) Jason asked about inducing labor instead and I asked if we even had time to go home and get our bag.\u00a0 She said we needed to go straight from there to the hospital.<\/p>\n

Scared about the baby and not really understanding exactly what the problem was, we went to the hospital.\u00a0 It took an hour or two before the doctor on call from my group came to see us.\u00a0 During that time, I realized that this couldn’t be that much of an emergency or they wouldn’t have waited so long to come talk to me.\u00a0 I also told all the nurses that I didn’t understand what was wrong on the ultrasound and that I really truly did not want a C-section.\u00a0 Finally the doctor came in and explained that the ultrasound showed little to no amniotic fluid and that could be an issue for cord compression.\u00a0 He said that he didn’t see any reason not to try inducing labor, though I needed to understand that I was at an increased risk to have C-section.\u00a0 I was so happy that at least I would have a chance of avoiding the surgery!<\/p>\n

I started at 3 cm and they broke my water (though there was little of it left) and started pitocin at around 4:30pm.\u00a0 My wonderful doula Stefany<\/a> soon met me at the hospital and was just awesome trying to help me relax through contractions and also helping me position to avoid any issues with the baby’s heart rate since cord compression was a big concern.<\/p>\n

At around 9 pm there had still been no change despite how intense the contractions felt.\u00a0 I had the shakes really badly and in the middle of dealing with that and some painful contractions I realized something was wrong.\u00a0 There were lots of nurses and the doctor in my room.\u00a0 They were moving me all around from side to side.\u00a0 The baby’s heart rate had dropped down and stayed down for several minutes and they were trying to help me get into a position where it would come back up.\u00a0 Finally, after many scary minutes, it did.\u00a0 The doctor told me that though I didn’t want a C-section, if the heart rate did that one more time we would have to do one anyways.\u00a0 She also said that because I had no changes to my cervix and the baby was already not tolerating contractions, we might need a C-section anyways.\u00a0 She told me to stay in the position I was in to hopefully keep the heart rate up.\u00a0 I had hoped to wait until I was further along before getting an epidural, if I got one at all, but with hours of unproductive pitocin strengthened contractions and now having to stay in one position the entire time, at around 9:30 pm I got the epidural.<\/p>\n

God was with us and believe it or not, in a little over an hour after that huge scare, I was ready to deliver!\u00a0 In just that short time I dilated from 3 cm to 10 cm and in less than 15 minutes of pushing Jason and I welcomed our third miracle, our baby girl who is truly a gift from God.\u00a0 She was perfect with no issues at all despite the labor scares.\u00a0 She is absolutely beautiful with dark black hair and grayish eyes.\u00a0 She was pretty fussy her first night, but who wouldn’t be after all that!\u00a0 She is being much nicer to us now.<\/p>\n

Big brothers came to meet their new sister today and both were so cute.\u00a0 Our oldest son would hardly let anyone else touch his new sister and begged to hold her constantly.\u00a0 In fact, he spent the entire day with us at the hospital because he wouldn’t leave her side.\u00a0 Our younger son immediately reached for his sister and gave her a huge hug.\u00a0 With some help he held her for a couple minutes and when we took her back he cried out “Mine” and asked for another turn.\u00a0 They are both already so in love with their little sister and are going to be terrific big brothers.<\/p>\n

We’ve had many people ask us what we decided to name her and we’d love to share that with you!\u00a0 However, we have some internet safety concerns and have decided not to share it on the internet.\u00a0 If you email us, we’d be happy to let you know!<\/p>\n

Here are some of baby’s first pictures, with many more to come in the days and weeks ahead!\u00a0 Thanks to everyone for the thoughts and prayers, and the congratulations!\u00a0 We are so blessed!<\/p>\n

Getting through a contraction with the help of my doula, Stefany:<\/p>\n

\"babe8\"<\/p>\n

Just after being born:<\/p>\n

\"babe9\"<\/p>\n

\"babe1\"<\/p>\n

Meeting my baby:\"babe3\"<\/p>\n

Tiny hand around my finger:\"babe4\"<\/p>\n

Jason already has plans for making his daughter into a “Daddy’s Girl.”\u00a0 We’ll see!<\/p>\n

\"babe7\"<\/p>\n

Proud big brother:\"babe5\"<\/p>\n

She already has both of her brothers wrapped around her fingers!\"babe6\"<\/p>\n

\"babe2\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine days past her due date, our family finally welcomed our new baby.\u00a0 She was born at 11:03 pm at 7 lbs 13 oz and 20 inches.\u00a0 She made a dramatic entrance in the world!\u00a0 I thought I’d share some of the birth story for anyone who might be interested. Jason and I went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-5350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-family","tag-first-breath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5350"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44254,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5350\/revisions\/44254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonangeliniphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}