Allyx is here!

Finally! We went to the hospital Wednesday night (Feb 24th) at 7pm and they gave me Cervidil to get labor started. I definitely started having contractions that night. I was given a sleeping pill around 1am and told to get some rest. Yeah right! That didn't work. I was in and out of sleep all night, but never got "rest". Not by my definition, anyway. The next morning, sometime between 6 and 8am they started me on Pitocin. I got my Epidural a long time after that and Allyx decided to make her grand entrance at 8:32pm. 25 hours later, I was pretty exhausted.

Unfortunately, I lost about half my blood supply and wasn't doing too well after the delivery. They had me on oxygen for a while and monitored me for the next 3 days trying to decide if I was the lucky winner of a blood transfusion. YIKES! By the fourth day in the hospital, I was told to eat food with lots of iron, no transfusion needed. Phew.

We are excited to be parents and will try and get better at this blogging thing!!!