Well it finally happened on February 5th 2014 at 6:57 we welcomed Jenna Elizabeth Snyder into the world. She was 7.4 lbs and 20 inches long. She was born with a full head of dark brown hair.
My appointment when they told me I was a 5.5. How can do you be a 5.5 and not in labor!
Finally being admitted!
Did you see that black/dark brown hair? Wow!
Meeting the baby for the first time!
My amazing mom, who has really helped Morgan excel in reading.
Morgan had such a wonderful time with my mom it was so fun to see them read, play games and enjoy each other.
Morgan is so excited to be a bigger sister. She loves to sing to the baby.
Here is the birth story. On January 28th I woke up at 4:00am with painful contractions about 8 minutes apart. After about an hour I was able to fall back asleep. My other girls woke up around 5:45 and we got the day started but I felt disgusting and was still having contractions. I called my friend Erica Haskell to watch the girls so Danny and I could go to the hospital and have a baby! (Sidenote: On the 26th of January I had a Doctors appointment and they told me I was dilated to a 4.5 so I was nervous to let the contractions get to intense since I live 20 minutes from the hospital).We headed in around 9 and when I got there was still having contractions about 8 minutes apart, but they were not as painful but I still felt really sick. Anyways after being on the monitor for an hour my dilation didn't change any so the nurse said to go home and they would probably see me later that day. I was really surprised they sent me home but I thought I would be back later that day. Well my contractions became less and less and before I knew it I was picking my mom up at the airport on friday still with no baby. I was shocked. I made it to my next doctors appointment and was a 5.5 (Monday Feb 3rd). I couldn't believe I passed my due date (Feb 2nd) and I didn't realize you could be a 5.5 and not be in labor. Since my mom was only here till Sunday Feb 9th, I was really hoping they would induce me. But to my luck my insurance wouldn't do it till I was over due by 1 week. Wednesday morning I woke up and was having contractions but they didn't hurt at all. I was having them every 5 minutes, probably once an hour I would have kind of a painful contraction. I kept expecting them to really hurt. Danny was going to stay home but since I had a false alarm the other day I didn't want him to miss school if I wasn't really in labor. My mom and I decided to head to the hospital around 9:45 but on our way my contractions started to be farther apart, so we decided to go to story time near the hospital instead. During story time I only had 4 contractions, I was starting to think I was never going to have this baby. Since the contractions were less often we decided to head to the mall and still be close to the hospital. We picked up a few things for my mom and dad and then my contractions (still not painful) started happening every 5 minutes again. So I called my Doctor and asked what I should do. They told me to go in since I was dilated so much. When I got to the hospital I was really nervous they would send me home again. When I went in she checked me and I was at a 7. So she said they would keep me, I was so excited to have this baby. I called Danny and he headed to the hospital. I went into the hospital around 12:00, and I got to my room around 1:00. She said if the doctor had a break he would come over and break my water and then things would happen fast, if he didn't have a break he would come over around 5. Well she checked my at 4:30 and I was an 8 and still didn't have much pain. She told me I should try going natural since I didn't have much pain. I thought about it, and then I decided to have the epidural just incase. At 5 she came in and said the girl next door was getting an epidural so she would have them just come and do me after. After I got my epidural she checked me again (around 6) and my water broke while she was checking. She called the doctor and he said he would be on his way. The nurses for the baby were there and my nurse was there and the doctor had walked in and was getting ready, the nurse asked me to push once to see how things were progressing and then she said stop and I could feel her holding the baby in, the Doctor got on his gloves and said push and Jenna entered the world. BEST DELIVERY EVER! and the greatest part was I didn't tear. So far Jenna has been an amazing baby. We are so glad to have her in our family.
Well I took off almost a year of blogging, but looking at my sisters blog has made me hope to be able to start it up again. I love looking at Morgans book I made from the blog so I hope to try and update once a week on Sundays.
