we are home... settling in with edie. life is great. so far her favorite things to do are pee, poo, suck on my boobs and sleep... in no particular order. it was quite hard to get her to join the world, but now that she's here, i think she likes it.

speaking of how long it took her to get into the world... 29 hours... followed by a c-section. broken down into play by play...
12 hours of contractions induced from pitocin - so they were very strong and close together, but managable when i could take a bath in the jacuzzi bath tub ever hour. after 12 hours, i was only 3 cm dilated. so we decided to take a rest from the pitocin so i could eat and start again in the morning, but then my water broke and there was meconium present, which means she had a poo. this is pretty common when being 2 weeks overdue, but could also be a sign of distress for the baby. so to be on the safe side, the doctor said we couldn't wait until morning, we needed to start the pitocin up again right away. since my water broke, it meant no more baths for me to ease the pain (for risk of infection). i couldn't face another 12 hours of pictocin with no bath, so i opted for the epidural, fell asleep and in the morning, i was 10 cm dileted and ready to push.

started pushing and 3-1/2 hours later the baby hadn't moved an inch. the doctor checked me and told me she was posterior, or sunnyside up. he said he could push her back in and turn her around and i could start pushing again, but there was no guarentee it would be quick. his exact words were... i don't think this is going to happen vaginally. exhausted and ready to meet edie, i agreed to a c-section. an hour later, they found an anesthesiologist who told me my epidural had come out, so he gave me a spinal... good thing he checked prior to starting the surgery.

sacha joined me during the c-section and when they opened me up, the doctor said... she's staring right at us. they picked her up and showed her to us, she was holding her hands to her chin, cooing and staring right at sacha and i. it was amazing, she had such a deep stare. she was amazing, so different from what i thought she would look like. i think she looks like a worm, but you can see for yourself.

we are so happy she is finally here. it took a while, but she was worth the wait.

we went for our first adventure today... to office depot - we got so much paperwork at the hospital that we needed to start a filing system for her. after that, we had our first restaurant dining experience - she was good as gold.