Happy 1st Birthday dear girl!

My precious girl is 1 today!  My sweet girl shamelessly took over lives, our home, and our daily schedule 1 year ago, giving us unbelievable amounts of joy.

Can't believe 1 year ago, I had a 9:00AM appt with my dr. for the 2nd time that week. I was sitting in the waiting room, tired of the dr appts every 3 days, tired of bed rest, tired of not sleeping on my back, and was cranky as can be. Poor Ricky was trying to comfort me but was just making me crankier. We got home at 10:30AM, after another NST (listening to baby heartbeat for 30min), another U/S, and word that I was dilated 2cm.

At 11 AM, I was eating denjang-jeegeh and rice when contractions started! I started timing them at 12PM, called my dr. at 2PM, took a shower and got ready and checked in at the hospital at 3PM.  In retrospect, I waited too long to call my dr., cause when I got to the hospital I was already 7cm.

At 3:30 PM, I was already 7cm dilated! The contrations were really really painful at this point. I never realized the pain was going to come from the front, side, and back simultaneously. I started panicking and asked for the epidural that I was not planning to take (in retrospect, who was I trying to impress? Epidurals are a piece of heaven!).

At 4:00 PM, I got the epidural. Whew!  As Ricky said, I was 'just peachy' once I got the anesthesia.  My dr. came at 4:30, and we were talking when my water broke all over her! I was embarrassed but she graciously just had us laughing about it.

At 5:30 PM, I was put on the oxygen mask cause Kelly wasn't getting enough oxygen and switching positions wasn't helping.

At 6:30 PM, my dr. said it was time to push!  She used a vacuum to help little Kelly out cause she still wasn't getting enough oxygen and she was a little worried.  I can't describe the pushing...except that I was motivated to push and push so I could be done.  My dr. asked if I wanted a break but that a break could mean Kelly slipping back in, but I said 'nope'...let's keep going.  And after 20min, came Kelly at 6:54PM...Her first apgar score was a 6 due to lack of oxygen, but apgar score #2 was a 9.

That was a mere 365 days ago.  I am getting ahead of myself, but I'm so sad she's growing up so fast, and yet, so excited for what's to come. 

Happy happy 1st birthday to my little girl...who knew you could love someone/something this much?  Husband/wife...so easily 2nd place.  =)