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Sorry it's been a while since I posted. We're adjusting to life with Vaughan, which I must say has been pretty wonderful. She's a VERY good baby. She barely ever cries. The first night or two she had an hour where she just had to scream, but other than that she's been such an angel.

Here are the details of how it all went down. On Sat 22nd around 5am I started having contractions on and off and that morning around 6 I lost my mucus plug. Contractions lasted ALL DAY. I missed Erika's baby shower that afternoon:( Around 6pm the contractions started getting worse and closer together - around 7-8 minutes apart. I was told by the doc to come in when the contractions were 6 minutes apart. About 8:45pm Brett and I decided we should probably get things together to go to the hospital so I called the doc and he said come in. We left for Barrington at 9 and got there about 10. They checked me and I was only 2+ cm dilated. I was like "THAT'S ALL!!??, AFTER ALL DAY?!" So I got the epidural shortly after that and was a little more comfortable. I couldn't sleep all night though. I think if I would have slept some then the pushing part wouldn't have been so bad. I ended up starting to push around 6am and Vaughan made her appearance at 7:14. So I pushed for a little over an hour. I thought that part sucked personally. I think my second dose of the epidural really made that whole experience worse for me because I couldn't feel my legs, butt, lower back, nothing, to the point where it felt like jello to touch. I couldn't even lift my leg an inch. I couldn't lift my butt. I was pretty much worthless. The doc said that if I wouldn't have been so numb that I probably would have had an easier time pushing and it wouldn't have gone on for so long. Poor Vaughan, all that I kept thinking was this poor child is going to have a cone head because I cannot push her out!!! She did have it a little, but not nearly as bad as I had imagined. When the doc said "It's a girl!" I almost died! I mean, of course I was over the moon when I saw her, but that was a shock. Both Brett and I thought boy for sure. So much for mother's intuition! All the other details and stuff went well I guess. Although, I did have an episiotomy to the side and I also tore on the other side. Ouch! Every single nurse that came in the check "my bottom", as they call it, would look and say, "oooh, sweetie, you're so swollen." I was SO swollen in fact that it looked like I had testicles!!! That was awful. Ugh, I shiver just thinking about that. All the nurses were wonderful, they helped me TREMENDOUSLY through everything.

Everything else is going really well. I am already fitting back in some of my old jeans!! My stomach has gone down almost completely. My belly button is still funky and my linea negra is still really dark, but that will go away with time.

I promise to post more pictures soon. I have been having to blog and check emails from Brett's work computer and it takes DAYS to load pictures and I just haven't had the time. Actually, I have to go now. Vaughan is hungry. I will try to write again soon. Thank you all for all the comments.