Two weeks early!

Hello everyone! Sorry for the delay on updating the blog, but our little peanut came a little earlier than expected! We welcomed our daughter, Emma Jane Boughton, on February 6th at 2:29 am. She was born six pounds, one ounce and 18 1/2 inches long. All ten fingers and toes are there!! :) Here is one of the first pics of her on the scale!!

I started having contractions around 10:30 pm on Saturday February 5th and we got to the hospital at 11:30 pm and little miss Emma was born at 2:29 am on Sunday (Super Bowl Sunday -- so she will love sports when she gets older, ha ha) February 6th. The labor was almost perfect (as perfect as a labor could go). It was only a total of 4 hours. All day Saturday I felt great! Addison and I went to the Drake/UNI basketball game Saturday afternoon, ran some errands, and then went to an Iowa Energy bball game at night. We got home around 10:00 pm and I got my pajamas on and we were watching the news when I started not to "feel" very good. I called the dr and they didnt think it was anything to worry about because the contractions weren't to regular, but after I hung up the phone they got a lot stronger so we decided to head on in to the hospital and get it checked out.

When we got to the hospital - I was put into a triage room to assess the "situation" and they saw that my water had broke (not sure when this happened because I didnt feel any water at any time, so who knows! At my last dr's appt I was dilated to a 4 (which was the Thursday before I went into labor), so I was already half way there..so when I got to the hospital they said I was dilated to a 6.

I then walked over to my hospital room and they started a saline drip before I could get an epidural, but in the mean time my contractions were horrible, so they gave me a pain meds through my iv which definitely helped. About 15 min later, the dr came in and gave me my epidural which didn't hurt at all and just really wanted the pain to go away so anything to help speed that process up I was ALL for. The epidural took about 15 minutes to kick in, and then about 5-10 minutes later I was pushing. I pushed for about 45-1 hr, and she wasn't wanting to move down as much as the dr wanted so she suggested that we try a vacuum to help her come out, but they said we would try pushing one more time. Of course, on my last push the little peanut came out! Yeah! :)

She was perfect -- they took her to get assessed and the drs got me all ready and then I got to hold her for the first time. Pic above.

Overall, it was a great night and both Emma and I did great! We were in the hospital from Saturday night through Tuesday afternoon, which the time just went fast! It was great to get home though and of course our dog Zoe was SUPER happy to see us!