Thank you all for your comments and thoughts on the last couple of posts, I have really enjoyed reading them.
The birth went about as well as you could possibly hope for - pitocin started at 4pm, I went from 2-4cm in 7 hours, and then 4-10cm in one hour, and then six pushes later, I was a mother of two. With Jared, I pushed for two hours. My OB said "One more should do it" and I almost asked out loud "What, one more hour?" because I just couldn't believe it would go that fast. And then when she came out, my first thought was "Oh no, my sisters are going to kill me" because neither of them had come close to that short of a pushing time. It cracks me up that those thoughts were on my mind while I brought my daughter into the world.
Recovery has also been great compared to last time, I was itching to get out of the house by day five (whereas I didn't want to leave the couch for three weeks last time) and have been out almost every day since. Jared is in daycare, so I only have to manage one kid during the day, which makes it a lot easier. And last night I spent the first evening alone with both kids while my husband was out, and even did bedtime for both (which, let me just say - was pure hell - but I'm proud of myself for doing it. :-).
Oh yeah and I got on the scale the day after we got home, only to find out that after giving birth to an almost 9 pound baby, I weighed 5 pounds less than I had the day that we went into the hospital.
More pictures coming up soon...
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