Maya Elizabeth Ready arrived on Tuesday October 21 @ 11:48pm. She weighed 9lbs 3oz and was 191/4 in long. I started having contractions on Monday night around 7:30pm. At about midnight I started thinking they were getting much closer, still not knowing how intense things would get! I woke Matt up around 1:30am and at 2:30am we decided to go to his mom's house ( she lives so much closer to the hospital than we do!!) to labor. I was feeling good there for awhile and at 8:30am I decided I wanted to be at the hospital. I was checked at the hospital and I was 4.5-5cm. I called Auntie Stacey and Uncle Kenny ( who was in town visiting from Toronto), thinking things would move right along and I would have Maya soon?! Well a long time had passed. I was making snail pace progress and was sick the whole time. They broke my water at 5:30pm. At 6:30pm and 7cm I finally asked for epidural (yes it is what everyone says!!) By this time I was exhausted and my uterus was tired so my pushing was whimpy. At about 10:30 pm, they lowered my epidural to practically non existant and gave me pitocin to jump start my contractions (that worked!!), and at 11:48 pm I had a 9lb Maya!!!
Matt was amazing the entire time. He is the best coach/husband/support ever!! Auntie Stacey was great, I am glad she was able to be there, and uncle Kenny was awesome at keeping the hotline going....giving mom and everyone the play-by-play! FraNa was able to deliver her first grand baby so that was so special. Needless to say we had so much love and support around us, birth was truly amazing.
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