She Has Arrived

Introducing

Emma Rose Yancey
December 12, 2008

8:38pm

6lbs 15oz

19 1/4"

it was a friday (4 weeks ago) and a full moon. i heard someone say that it was the closest the moon has ever been to the earth. it was beautiful and looked so huge. i had begun going to see my midwife for weekly checkups just the week before. So this check up was no different. They checked my weight (always hate that part), my blood pressure (which is always good, lets hope to keep it that way) and when she went to check my cervix she said i was 2cm and about 60% effaced. she said "would you like me to stretch you to 3cm" i was like sure why not, what's it going to hurt. (besides me). So she did and I went home excited because we had also decided that if i had not had her by the 21st then she was going to induce me. well that turned out to be unnecessary. I went home and by 11am i was having contractions, but the funny thing was i didn't believe they were the real thing. i had been having braxton hicks contractions for a while and they had been somewhat painful. so i started timing them and they weren't consistant. they were about 5 mins then 11 mins and so on. so they say if you get up and move around and still are having them then they probley the real thing, so i got up, took a shower and did some laundry, dishes and i was working that day. and they were still there. but with madison i was having them every 5 mins they were consistant and they lastedfor 12 hours before i went to the hospital. so i called my midwife and asked if i could come in for her to check me to see if it was the real thing. see i needed to know so i could call my in-laws to come and watch madison while we went to the hospital. i was so convinced that they weren't the real thing (i mean it was 10 days before my due date and i was 6 days late with madison). our friend cayce took me to the doctors (since i really didn't need to drive) and vic was on his way to get madison from daycare and it was about 30 mins to the doctors office. so she checked me again and said i was 3cm and she agreed that i was in early labor. well i thought "i have plenty of time" so vic came and picked me up from the doctors office and we went home. i needed to finish packing my bag and he needed to get the camera, but we needed to wait until vic's parents got there to watch madison, but i ended up not waiting that long. cayce works at CMC-Pinville where i delivered emma. she called to say that we really needed to get on the road b/c there was lot of traffic. it ended up taking us about 40 mins to get to the hospital (that was around 8pm). They put me in a triage room to access me. funny thing was that somewhere there was a miscommunication, they thought that i was coming in the rule out that i was in labor (at this point i knew i was in labor, but i still thought that i had a long way to go). they checked me and i was still at 3cm, they were thinking about letting me go home. good thing they didn't because emma arrived at 8:48pm. less then an hour after i had arrived she was here. i couldn't believe it. it all happened so fast, vic says i only pushed maybe one time and this time i was screaming for an epidural. (no time) when my midwife checked me again i was at 7cm and while she was still checking me i went to 9cm and pushed emma out. i couldn't believe how quickly it all happened. But, i think the most interesting part is that when vic got up that morning and left for work he gave me a kiss and he said the my belly, "ok, i'm ready to meet you" and i said "well, you might get your wish today." the only reason i said that was because i had been up the night before with some contractions (what i thought was braxton hicks) i don't know why i said that but it came true. emma was born on my cousin Joshua's 16th Birthday. I called him that morning to say happy birthday and i told him i was sorry but it didn't look like i was going to have her on his birthday. see my cousins were hoping that she would be born on one of their birthday's (rachel's being the 26th). so now it is even easier to remember the girls birthday's madison was born 2.2 and emma was born 12.12. but now it's been a month, and it has been a rough month. it has been a very big adjustment to having two children. more on that in a later blog.