Dylan's Birth

Bringing baby Dylan into the world was quite the adventure and didn't in any way go as planned or imagined. Ben and I arrived at the hospital Wednesday April 20 at 7pm to start the induction process. Although inducing wasn't my first choice at this point our baby girl was 8 days late and we were very ready to meet her.

Throughout the night I was given two doses of a pill to 'ripen' my cervix. Before the pill I wasn't dilated and was 75% effaced and by morning not much had changed. So we started a pitocin drip around 7am. And by evening I was only slightly dilated.

We decided to then stop the Pitocin for the evening, do another round of cervix ripening pills, and get a good night sleep.

Day 2: April 21

We started the Pitocin again at 6am and around 7am the doctor broke my water. This is where the details start to get a little fuzzy. I remember the contractions progressing but not much else. Ended up getting an epidural sometime around 4pm (I think). Dilated a few more centimeters and then no progression for hours.

Our 24 hour window was shrinking, so sometime that evening we made the decision to go ahead with the C-Section. I think it was around 10pm when they started prepping me for surgery. Unfortunately I wasn't completely numb and I could feel it when they started cutting me open. The anesthesiologist quickly put me to sleep by filling the IV with a creamy liquid and Ben had to leave the room.

Dylan Lee was born on Friday April 22nd at 11:01pm. She was 8lbs 14 ounces and 21 inches long. It's not how we expected to meet our baby girl but I feel like we tried everything and were very happy for the whole process was over.

8lbs 14o

Some of the family waiting to meet Dylan

Ben got to hold her minutes later

And I met our daughter a little later in our room