So at 4:30 pm on 8/10 i walked to the labor and delivery floor in the hospital. Mike had actually left me to go to work. He just started a new job at ISU. I had to call him and tell him I was walking to the hospital. He met me 15 min later. I was placed in room 6 and the nurse told me to put the gown on and she hooked me up to all the monitors. Ironically I was having contractions 5 min apart and didn't know it. At about midnight that night the doctor placed a catheter with two balloons filled with 80ml of saline in each. Not long after I started to feel the contractions and asked for my epidural. THANK HEAVENS After 12 hrs this progressed my dilation from a one to a five. The doctor removed the catheter and went home to rest. Within three hrs i was dilated to a ten and began pushing without the doctor present. Mike and the nurse helped me push for about 30 min and until the head was visible. The nurse told me to stop pushing and called the doctor three times and told him to hurry over. He arrived shortly and few pushes later she was here.
Brielle Faith Nestler born at 4:15 pm, weighed 4 lbs -11 oz, and 18 in. long. She arrived with open eyes and head full of dark hair. That's why i had all that heart burn!
