Baby McKell Elise Snyder

Well I had hoped to have more time to blog, but I was really tired since I was laboring through the night. We welcomed McKell Elise Snyder to the world at 8:12am on April 14th 2012. She was 7lbs5oz and 20 inches long. She is a pretty awesome baby so far, we will see how it goes. I am leaving the hospital tomorrow morning and am so glad my mom is here to help me. I have the best mom ever! McKell came just intime for my sister Devynn to see her. My sisters flight left at 5:00 pm in Cincinnati on Saturday, so it was a blessing for McKell to arrive Saturday Morning.

Her labor and delivery were awesome thanks to the miracle of epidurals. Since it was Devynns last night we decided to go out to BJ's for dinner on friday night. After a wonderful meal and being really full we went home and as I got Morgan ready for bed, the contractions started, they were painful but they were not really close, so I thought they might just be playing with me. Around 10:30 I said to Danny, my mom and Devynn, these contractions are real, it isn't a matter of if she comes it is when she comes. I tried to sleep and hoped that I would be able to get a ok sleep and then head over to the hospital in the morning, around 1:30 I couldn't take the pain anymore and started to get ready to go. At 1:56 I told Danny it was time. We arrived at the hospital around 2:30, and I told them I wanted my epidural asap. The triage Nurse check me out and I was dilated to a 5. She said she would call the doctor to see what to do next. After what seemed like forever, and having contractions that were horrible and made me nauseous, she said I was staying and took me over to the delivery room. Waiting for the epidural was the hardest part of the whole delivery.  Around 4:00 and being a 6 I got my epidural, and it was well amazing, just like an epidural was supposed to I couldn't feel the contractions but could still feel my legs and I had pretty good control over them. After I got the epidural Danny and I took a nap till 6ish and then I could tell things were getting close. I was hoping my doctor would come in and deliver me even though he wasn't on call, so I wanted to wait till 7, around 7 we paged him but had no luck, so Dr. Graham delivered me. At 8 the nurse called in the delivery team and after pushing through just 1 contraction McKells head was out and after the next contraction she was out. The delivery couldn't have gone any better.

Lots of pictures to follow in next post, when I am home and can access picture more easily.