Well after what seemed like FOREVER....Violet decided to officially join our family. She was born July 27th (aw almost a month old! Where does time go???) 6 pounds 11 ounces and 20 inches long.
I was certain that she was going to come early like her sister did at least 9 days. Nope just 4 days early. So I was very anxious. We didn't have a name picked out yet and I was determined that was why she wasn't coming. She wanted the perfect name and she didn't want us to decide it in the hospital.
Well Thursday morning I woke up Gabriel at 4am to take me to the hospital and we discussed names on the way in between contractions. We weren't discussing new names we were just trying to agree on one name. We had to down to about 10 different names that we couldn't agree on. Funny thing is... Violet was the first name we both liked when we found out we were having another girl. But Brigitte has that Leapfrog dog named Violet and we kind of thought it would be weird and confusing for Brigitte. Well Brigitte has it all figured out. Her dog is still Violet and her sister in Viley or baby. We did decide on Violet before she was born and Belle was decided about 4 hours after she was born.
When we got to the hospital I wasn't in what they call active labor. They made to wait about an hour to see if I dilated more within the hour other wise I would have to go back home. Well luckily I did change and got to stay. They did have to give me a little pitocin to speed things up and thank goodness it did. My epidural however didn't work as great as the first time. My epidural was only blocking my right side and I could still feel some contractions on my left however when it came to pushing I couldn't feel any pain so it all worked out in the end. The pitocin worked a little faster than they have thought it would. Basically they started it when I was dilated to a 6 and my nurse was supposed to call my doctor when I was about 8-9. Well we started at 6am and I wasn't changing very fast. So my nurse wasn't to worried. Well then my contractions really started hurting and I was wanting them to come try and fix it. My nurse (who was the same sweet nurse that delivered Brigitte and I used to work with her husband) said well he should be on his way but let me check you. Well she went to check me and said "Opps I can see her head!" Which explained why my contractions hurt so bad. Doctor came in and the first thing he said was "why isn't she pushing!?" Well my nurse doesn't like to have her patients push until she knows the doctor is at least in the building because she usually ends up delivering the baby! What a different this time though. With Brigitte I pushed for about an hour which isn't bad but really wears you out. Violet I don't even think I pushed 10 minutes. It was great!
She came out and I was worried at first because I thought she wasn't crying. I was wrong she was but it was just so quiet! It was more like a whimper. She has 2 ear skin tags which she will get removed when she is about a year old but the interesting thing about them are I had them in the exact same spot when I was born! But she is perfect little girl!
Brigitte didn't know what to think of her at first. She came in and daddy was holding her and she just kind of glared at him and wondered why he was hold that strange thing! Well then she realized it was a baby and got a little excited. She didn't like when I held Violet though because there wasn't enough room for her to get on the bed with mommy! She is now well adjusted to being a big sister and loves to take care of "her baby."
