Little miss Lucy

I have been debating whether to pick back up with my blog because, hey, I haven't written in A YEAR and also I have maybe two readers. I decided to start again because this is how I remember things.

I have missed out on NINE months of documenting but I'm going to try to make it up starting now:

Our little miss Lucy was born almost nine months ago.

 My water broke at 5am. It was a weird feeling. Like peeing yourself totally involuntarily. I have had several friends whose water broke and they had the baby within the hour. So when it happened, I woke up out of a dead sleep, sat up, and said "Oh Crap!". Todd sleepily inquired, and all I could muster was one more "Oh Crap!" I was sure I was in for a butt-load of pain (eew, gross labor pun in there somewhere).

By the time I was admitted I wasn't contracting very badly so I wasn't worried that the baby was just going to fall out of me anymore. I began to concentrate my efforts on making sure that every single medical personnel that I came in contact with knew that I wanted an epidural.

 Seriously ladies, if you want to feel absolutely NOTHING when you have a baby just make sure you tell the nurses at least every couple minutes that you still want an epidural. The anesthesiologist had two Csections but you better believe during the time in between she was pumping me full of wonderful drugs! With Luke the epidural wore off after 30 minutes and after that I felt everything. I also made sure to tell them about that and they gave me a little extra.

I now know that it is possible to feel absolutely nothing when you give birth and it is so awesome! If you get an epidural and you feel anything, ask for more. Because soon that 'anything' is going to turn into 'holy crap my body is going to rip in half'.

The whole experience was lighthearted and happy, not scary, which I couldn't say about labor with Luke.

I was so happy to finally meet our beautiful little girl. 

Welp, the past several months have just flown by. Our little Lucy is so sweet. She is really easy to make happy and really high maintenance at the same time. I don't know how to explain her. She's definitely a girl!

So happy to have this little girl in our family!