olive's birth story

the day that i had Olive, i woke up kinda early for one of my regular weekly doctor appointments. like i had mentioned the week before she was born,  my doctor was pretty concerned about my amniotic fluid level.  finding out that it was just on the low side of normal.  she had told me that we would check it again a week later.

a week had past and on my way to my appointment, i had this feeling, " you should have packed the hospital bag and put it in the car" oh! and "you should have gotten ready"

in my appointment, i had another ultra sound to see if baby had turned seeing as she was breech the week before.  while we were checking out the position of miss olive, my doctor noticed that she could hardly see any fluid at all.

my favorite part was her comment... "i don't believe the doctor who told you last week that your fluids were normal." she then sent me over to a different doctor and there i was told that i was going to have my baby THAT day!!

{my amniotic fluid was at a 3... 10 being normal}

here i am at the hospital, husband at work, me completely not ready at all, no hospital bag and definitely not expecting this baby for at least THREE more weeks.

i was sent home and was told to come back at 3:30 and scheduled my c-section for 5:00pm on may 29th.

now listen, in the very beginning i was told that if my placenta didn't move through out my pregnancy that i would be delivering my baby via c-section.  i was completely devastated.  cesarean was not in my plans and i so badly wanted to deliver my baby naturally.

luckily things changed and i was later on told that i could carry on with my original plans....

until may 29, 2013.

it was cesarean wether i liked it or not.

i ran home, got ready :) and picked up my husband and back to the hospital we went. when we got there reality sank in and i  became extremely nervous.

i was having a baby.. a little human...TODAY.

i'm going to be a mom!

and we're finally going to be parents!

{check out that needle!!!}

we got prepared and at 5:00 my c-section began.

i was scared and nervous so i kept my eyes closed the entire time.

dave was right by my side, taking pictures and video of the entire thing.

it was so quick and seemed so easy! ;) no pushing, no contractions. and at 5:10pm our little olive was welcomed to this world.

weighing 6 pounds 2 ounces, 19.25 inches long

{pretty big, i think, for being 3 weeks early}

it was the greatest feeling i had ever felt.

hearing her cry for the first time, of course made me cry.

my little buddy that i carried around for 9 months was finally here!

the procedure went pretty smoothly, although at the end i became very nauseous.

it seemed like they got her out so fast, but sewing me back up felt like it took a thousand years! i just wanted to see and hold my baby.

{look at that proud daddy!!:)}

our first family photo.... finally we were a family... of THREE!

olive's breathing was a little fast and concerning at first.  so she spent the first 3 or 4 hours in the nursery being watched constantly.  cute dave was in there most of the time making sure everything was okay.  when her breathing finally slowed down and they brought her back to us we were on cloud nine.

little olive michelle hated her first bath, and screamed the entire time.

in fact she had to be constantly swaddled up tight or else she was not a happy camper. that's definitely not the case now..

dave is absolutely smitten and loves her so much! olive and i are incredibly lucky to have him in our lives.  he was right by my side the entire time and ran his company from the hospital the 4 days that we were there.  he is amazing.  i am beyond grateful that he is my husband, but more importantly that he is olive's dad.

in the end, i was extremely HAPPY that i had a c-section. {can you believe it?!} i was very pleased. and actually, i kind of enjoyed it.  now, i don't know what it's like to deliver vaginally but recovering from a c-section sure was {and still is..sometimes} painful.  

while i was in the hospital, i liked to think i was a lot tougher than i actually was and one night decided that i could get up and go to the restroom by myself. psh! i didn't need help.  well, i was completely wrong and that was the worst idea i've ever had. nothing terrible happened, but hole. eee. cow i was in a lot of pain... and i usually have a high tolerance of pain. {i like it.. i know, kinda weird} and it didn't help that my nurse that was on that shift kept forgetting to bring my pain meds. yes, she forgot. and admitted it multiple times. dummy.

we had tons of visitors and holy cow, we had great nurses! we were happy with our hospital stay.

we were in the hospital for 4 days and were given the choice to stay one more. but dave and i both couldn't handle another day there.  especially dave.... on that itty bitty couch that he had to sleep on.  we were ready to go home and start our lives with our new little baby.

when we left the hospital, little olive weighed 5 pounds 14 ounces. and at her one week check up she had dropped to 5 pounds 10 ounces. 

{we were definitely on a strict eating schedule the first 2 weeks of her life to get her weight back up}

i feel incredibly thankful for this sweet little girl that our Heavenly Father has sent dave and i. she really is just perfect.

i can't believe that tomorrow my little baby will be ONE MONTH old!!!