Sydney Grace Baker - Finally Here!!!!

Friday 8/29/08...
So the story goes like this... it was coming down to the final few weeks of my pregnancy and I was getting huge and miserable. I love being pregnant, but I gotta tell you those last few weeks are a pain in the butt! LOL So if that wasn't bad enough, I found out that Spencer had to have his tonsils and his adenoids removed asap. The date they had scheduled was September 10th, the day before my due date. Stress and panic started to set in. I asked my dr to be induce on Friday September 5 (Mom and Dad were already here at that point)... but unfortunately the hospital was fun until Tuesday September 9. I cried and cried... what was I going to do. I didn't want to not be there for Spencer's surgery and I didn't want to chance Damon missing the birth. So after a long few days of trying to figure out what we could do, we decided we had to reschedule Spencer's surgery for the next week and go ahead with the induction on Tuesday.

Monday 9/8/08...
I called the hospital to make sure I didn't need to know anything for the induction the next morning. They said the only thing I needed to know was that I was on hold... meaning I probably wouldn't be induced on Tuesday... I was upset. But they told me to call back in the morning to find out for sure. So, I did...

Tuesday 9/9/08...
I woke up at 5:30 a.m. to call the hospital... yep, it was confirmed... I was on hold. I just had to wait for them to call me and they told me it would possibly be tomorrow before I would hear. So, instead of driving myself crazy Mom, Dad, Lozza, Spencer and I went to lunch and to the 99 cent store to kill time. But to my surprise and excitement, the hospital called and told me to be there at 2:30 p.m., they had a bed open for me.

2:30 p.m. - I arrived at the hospital. I was all of the sudden quite a bit nervous. I was so consumed with if I was going to have her before Spencer's surgery that I really hadn't thought about the fact that I was going to have to give birth and go through the pain. It was all settling in. The nurses checked my vitals and waited for the doctors orders to start the pitocin drip.

3:40 p.m. - The nurse started my pitocin and told me she would be upping my dosage every 20 minutes until I started to get into good labor. At that point, I was dialated to a 4 and 50% effaced, so I still had a ways to go.

5:00 p.m. - Still nothing happening... little contractions, but nothing to get excited over. I was worried this was going to take forever, but Mom was convinced, she would be here much sooner than I thought she would.

5:30 p.m. - My contractions are finally kicking in... actually pretty intensely when they finally hit.

6:10 p.m. - Yes, I need an epidural. These are some of the hardest contractions I have ever felt with all 3 pregnancies. I am in utter pain.

6:30 p.m - The anesthesiologist gets there and gives me the epidural... it takes a bit longer because everytime I have a contraction, they are so strong that he has to wait for me to be done with it so he can proceeed. He gets the loading dose in tells me that in 10 minutes my contractions should be lighter and shorter.

6:45 p.m. - The nurse checks me and I am 100% ready to go. She gets the doctor in as quickly as she can. The anesthesiologist comes in to give me the real pain killer but it's too late, I am already in birthing position and so I only have enough medicine to take the edge off... so I start freaking out that it's going to hurt... but this fear only lasts a minute as I start to push and that is all I can think about.

6:53 p.m. - I have pushed Sydney's head out... but the doctor tells me to stop. The cord is wrapped so tightly around her neck that she has to cut it off before I can continue to push. I push two more times and finally out comes my little girl. I was completely stressed though because as they placed her on my chest, she was so blue... the cord had been so tight, that it took her longer to start breathing than I remember it taking with Spencer and Kennedi. I kept asking "Is she ok??"... and then finally a little cry from across the room and all was well! She was here, I was fine and we were all happy!

Sydney Grace Baker
Born: September 9, 2008
Weight: 9 lbs. 2 oz
Lenghth: 19.5 inches
WELCOME TO THE WORLD LITTLE GIRL!