It's been quite some time since I last posted (six weeks, to be exact). Our little girl, Margaret Eden Plating, was born June 5. And so began our great adventure...
I was thrilled to be able to deliver her naturally! I was scheduled to be induced on Friday the 4th. Jack and I had been praying that we could avoid that, if at all possible, and labor without assistance. When we walked into the hospital, I started having contractions! I was ecstatic.
After 12 1/2 hours of the hardest work I've ever done in my life, little Mags was born! As exciting as it was, it was also scary, because she came out blue, with the cord wrapped around her neck and fluid in her lungs. I had been stuck at 9 1/2 cm for several hou
rs before we could begin pushing, and that seems to be when the complication started for her, poor little darling.Needless to say, all my reservations about delivering at the hospital went right out the window. I was incredibly thankful that care for my daughter could begin right away. She had to be on oxygen for the first 2 days, so we couldn't have her in our room, so that was hard. I wasn't in the best shape, myself, having lost a little too much blood due to a nasty tear. Here's a pic of Maggie in the NICU:
Thankfully, she bounced back in 2 short days, and we were able to go home together. The last six weeks have been spent as you might imagine--feeding baby, changing baby, playing with baby, etc etc, everyone knows about all that. The thing you can't imagine is the important stuff--the way being a parent really does change you at the most fundamen
tal level.And it is WONDERFUL.
Here is another pic, taken just this morning:
they really do change so fast!
xoxo--Rachel
