The labor and delivery of our precious NORA KATHERINE FILIPOVITZ:
I began to go into labor on Monday afternoon around 2pm. By 6pm, contractions were about 5 minutes apart - and they were killing me! We packed up and were literally walking out the front door when they stopped. We decided to wait it out and see if I had another one. I didn't. So it was back to the original plan...to wake up and be at the hospital the next morning by 7am!
The morning went very well and we were so thrilled to be so close to meeting our baby girl. We got checked in to the hospital and assigned to our room. When I was first checked by the nurse, I was between 2.5 and 3cm dilated. Labor had definitely been creeping up on me for the past week. They started an IV (which hurt more than my contractions at this point) and Pitocin to speed things up. Around 8am, Dr Wingo came in to check me and break my water. He did. Or so he thought. Two hours later I still hadn't dilated anymore and he rechecked me. Apparently he'd only "nicked" my water - so he had to break it again. I will say that this was the most painful thing I have EVER experienced. It appears my cervix was still posterior, which needs to be anterior...I will not go into detail but lets say he had to rearrange some things to break my water. After that, I went into full blown painful labor. My contractions were 1 minute apart and lasting 1 minute within 30 minutes of breaking my water. By 3pm, I was in agonizing pain and gave into the epidural. I was then at 6.5cm. No one came in to check me for a while - so at 5:35pm when they came in, I was not only dilated to 10cm, but I was +2. They literally told me to breathe through my pressure and contractions and to do whatever I could do not to push. Within 5 minutes, Dr Wingo was there. And at 5:47pm, after a mere 3 pushes, Nora Katherine Filipovitz was born. 7lb 12oz. 20 1/4 inches long. Dr Wingo did his infamous "Here she comes, Dad, grab her!" Eric helped pull her out and he was the first to hold her. It was incredible. The most amazing little girl we have ever seen graced us with her presence.
After half an hour of cleaning up and holding Nora Kate, it was Big Brother Weston's turn to meet his little sister. He was interested and definitely wanted to know what was going on and why I was in a hospital bed. His first words after seeing her were, "It came out!". Too funny.
