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*Update 1* Emma-Rose is here T&P requested

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*Update 1: We have had 3 good feedings in a row now. YAY! Emma's doctors have decreased her fluids/IV each feeding and checked her blood sugar levels- so far they are doing great. We are hoping that this last check will mean that she can be taken off of the continuous IV. They are also currently (as I wait in my room impatiently) giving her a test to see if she can handle being off oxygen. If both tests come back positive then she could be in our room within an hour! I am being discharged this evening and even though right now there aren't any rooms available every doctor (mine and hers) has assured me that they will figure out something so I can stay close (hopefully in the same room as her- fingers crossed). 
Thank you all for your thoughts, prayers, well wishes, and congratulations!
 
 Picture #1 was taken just after Emma was born. #2 Was taken in NICU

In a nut shell version: 
Emma-Rose was born at 41 weeks 5 days, 30 hours after my water broke, she was 7 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. She was doing great and then started having problems and is now in the NICU for at least 7 days to be treated for pneumonia and other issues. 
Long version:
Birth story: (its long! I needed to get things down on "paper" and sorry about any grammatical errors I am still a little bit out of it) Basically nothing went the way we had hoped or planned (med free water birth) but when in life does it? 3:30 am on Saturday the 15th, I woke up all of a sudden and felt this whoosh of water. I quickly went to the bathroom and realized that my underwear was soaked through. I cleaned up and started getting excited. Contractions started after that pretty quickly but they were irregular and not very strong. I wasn't sure that I had actually broken my water since after the first "gush" nothing happened. About 6:30 I started having little gushes and I realized that my water had actually broken but the contractions were still not super regular. So I waited, and waited and waited. Finally about 10:30 the contractions were stronger and about 3-4 minutes apart. Jason and I decided it was time to head to the hospital. I was sure that I would be dilated to at least 3 or 4, maybe 5. We got there and I got checked- nothing had changed from when I was checked the day before. I was still only barely 2 cm and my cervix still had a lot of length to it.   They let me labor for a little bit longer on my own but it became apparent that while things did change they were not changing fast enough. So they gave me some meds to get things moving along. That was the fist of many meds to come- so my plan for a med free birth went totally out the window. The contractions got a LOT stronger very quickly but I still didn't change that much- I was still SLOWLY thinning and barely dilating. By the evening, with very little changes happening and being so tired from being in labor all day, I asked for some pain meds because I couldn't take the pain anymore. They tried one pain med, S-something. It didn't really dull the pain at all but made me crazy out of it- I tried talking to my DH and my words were all slurred and I couldn't get my mind to focus. They checked me again, I really have no idea when but I know it was getting close to 24 hours after my water had broken, and I was only at 3 cm. I was beyond devastated and so very tired. They gave me some new pain meds because I was now in "active labor"- I wanted to scream because what the heck had I been doing before? been on vacation?After that dose wore away (less than 20 minutes later), I realized that I was just too tired to keep going and I needed more help. So I did the last thing I wanted (well, nearly the last thing- csection was the last thing), I begged for an epi. I hated myself for asking for it at the time but once it was in, I was able to relax, breath, and get some much needed "sleep" (more like dozing for a few minutes at a time). That thing was amazing. The next time they checked me I was at 6+ cm. That was at 5:30 am. My contractions started spacing out a bit and I was told that after the shift change they were going to start me on Pit. I REALLY didn't want that. So I told Emma that she needed to help me along and I begged my body to get it's self in gear. About 7 am I started to feel like I had to use the bathroom in a bad way. I asked the nurse what I was supposed to do (since I couldn't leave the bed) and she wanted to do a quick check to see how far along I was- I figured probably no change had happened. So when she said- "Honey, you are complete. You are there." It took me a few seconds to realize that I was fully dilated and what I was feeling was actually the urge to push. I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that it was time. I was just so very happy. By 8 my midwife was here and I started to push. We tried a couple positions (thankfully the epi wasn't so strong and I could use my legs) but while I was making some progress with pushing but my contractions started spacing out again and weren't long enough to help me. They gave me "a whiff" of pitocin (super small dose) and that kicked the contractions off enough to help me push the rest of the way. It was amazing. I loved pushing because I could actually do something! The pain and intensity was also amazing but again so worth it. It took about 45 minutes of active pushing but then Emma-Rose was born. I had my eyes squeezed shut so I could concentrate on pushing and I remember my midwife telling me- open your eyes, open your eyes, here is your baby. I got to hold her while they waited for her cord to stop pulsing and I was in bliss- I also was in shock. I couldn't believe that this little person had come out of me. They took her away pretty quickly after her cord was cut because she wasn't pinking up quick enough. My DH got to hold her and so did my mom and MIL while I was stitched up. After I was done, I got to hold her again and we started to try and breastfeed. That was when we noticed that she was having a hard time breathing. So they took her back to the nursery to check her out. They came back after a while (DH went with her) and said that they thought they had taken care of everything and that she just had some fluid in her stomach and a tiny bit in her lungs. We tried breastfeeding again and with the help of some wonderful nurses we did great. They came in to take her back again to wash her and get her changed. Jason told me he would go with her and I should get a little sleep, I hated to give her up again but I figured she would be right back. I was wrong. She started to go down hill while she was back there. Anyway, things started to look better after they put a tube down her throat and basically pumped her stomach getting out a lot of crap. She seemed to respond really for a while after that. But then they took her to go run some tests to make sure she was okay and the results came back not so great and we just found out that she has pneumonia. She is currently on oxygen, hooked up to monitors, on a continues IV and being given antibiotics every few hours. She will be in the NICU for at least 7 days. Still, we are hopeful that the doctors caught things soon enough and she improve very fast. I will be discharged tomorrow morning and hopefully there will be a room available for me to stay in so we can continue to breastfeed every 3 to 4 hours.
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