Future Fuller Family Funny Farm: Third Time is the Charm

Sorry! I have been slacking on updating the blog . . . but promise that this post will contain pretty exciting stuff that will be worth the wait! :)

Well, I havn't really been doing a lot of baking, I have been feeling quite uncomfortable (moving around wise!) making it a little hard to feel motivated to bake! Since my sweethreat loves muffins, I did make up a batch of cimonon spice muffins for his first week of classes, and this Sunday I used up our very brown bannanas to make two loaves of bananna bread . . . besides that, I haven't really exersized my oven!

The Wedensday before Roland started back up with school, January 18th . . . Roland and I made a trip up to the birthing center because I was having contractions about 5 minute apart! They hooked me up to the machine to check on my contractions and our little girl's heart beat and everything looked good. When they checked my cirvix I was already dialated to about 2 1/2 centimeters! Unfortantly, that is where it stayed, so after about a couple hours of seeing if I was going into "real" labor, they sent me home saying that I was having non-progressive labor! Sad day!

Then two days later, on January 20th, I thought that my water had broke . . . not the big gush like you see on tv, but rather springing a leak. I wasn't having any contractions that I could feel, but I felt like something was different, so we make another trip up the the birthing center. They did a special test to see if my water had broke, and sadly it was a no go! I can't begin to tell you how embarressing it is to thing walk into a birthing center thinking your water has broke and walking out with basically being told that you probably just peed your pants! Okay, so no one said that, but that was kind of how it felt! :)

Roland started back up with classes on January 23rd and that whole week goes by very uneventfully! That is something that Roland was happy about, he was able to go to all of his classes and tell all of his teachers that his wife was very pregnant and could be having the baby any day now. For me, I just continued going about my buisness as best as I could, kind of hopeing that I would go into labor so I could finanlly meet our little girl!

It was starting to look like she was going to be a Feburary baby, until about 12:00 in the morning on January 31st, I started having contratctions. They were harder than the ones I had when we went in on the 18th, but I wanted to wait to see if they were getting closer together than 15 minutes apart, so I told Roland to try to get some sleep. Two hours later, I woke him up saying that they were getting closer together and we probably should go in. By the time we got to the birthing center they were about every four minutes! They checked my cervix, and sure enough, I was dialated to a 4! So, at about 3 o'clock in the morning, we were told that we weren't going to be leaving until our baby was born! :) They kept monitoring my contractions and making sure that our little girl was still doing okay for the next couple hours while I would try to rest as much as I could. About 6:30 I decided that I wanted to get an epidural, but I could wait until the anitiologist got in at 7:00. They gave me some sort of pain medicine that could take the edge off that lasted about two hours. I am not above using the benifits of living in a time when modren medicine is avanced enough that I don't have to be in extruiating pain while giving birth and I can enjoy the experiance. I am sure that if given the option the woman in the Bible would have too! Around 9:00, when they gave me the epidural, I was only dialated to a 6, so the OB decided to brake my water for me, to help my labor speed up. It was then around noon, when I really wasn't getting anywhere too fast, I was given some patocine which did the trick! Somewhere around 1:30 or 2:00, I was ready to push! At 3:31pm on January 31st, our little girl was born! :)

Abigail Reina Fuller

January 31, 2012 at 3:31 PM

7 pounds 2 ounces

20 inches long