Here she is!!! Harriet Rachel Henderson. 8 pounds, 1 ounces. Born at 7:33pm. Delivery went great, mom and baby are doing awesome. Looks like a brunette so far. Click on the pictures to see larger versions if you want.
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Rachel’s at 9cm right now, and should be pushing within 15 minutes. I probably won’t post again for a little while, until the baby has been out for a spell. Thanks for all your prayers!
This is a picture of “mission control,” inspired by Steve Post’s comment on our earlier post.A little more info: Rachel’s contractions got quite painful for a little while, then she got the epidural. Now she’s laying down smiling and saying things like “I like drugs.” We just started a little bit of pitocin, so we…
Rachel’s contractions are coming faster and more painful now, but still without a ton of resulting dialation. So, we’re about to get her an epidural and some pitocin. This morning they gave her Cytotek or something like that (prostoglandin?) which technically isn’t an inducer, just a cervix ripener (for those stubborn, hard-to-ripen cervixes). So we…
Yes, those are small contractions on the printout. Rachel is starting to have some regular contractions although at this point they aren’t very intense. But we’re happy for progress. The top squiggle is the girl’s heartrate, which the nurses love. Everytime one of them looks at it they say: “what a happy baby!!!” I guess…
Very little is happening. Which you probably could tell by the fact that we have posted three times already. This girl refuses to budge. Rachel hasn’t even started having contractions yet, and we’ve been here since 7am. So, a few minutes ago, they broke her water. Still no contractions. I know yall need something to…