{ 2008 11 15 }

The first 12 hours in the hospital

We checked into Prentice Women’s Hospital (part of Northwestern) last night at 10:30 pm and waited 2.5 hrs for a delivery room to be prepped (not a good first start). Once we got into our room, Erin was hooked up an IV and we spent time talking to nurse and asking lots of questions. We both feel asleep around 2 am. Erin was woken up at 3:30 am for her easy catheter and to be given pitocin to help her body start prepping for the am. At 4:30 am her water broke and she complained of being wet :) We both woke up around 8 am. Around 8:30 am Erin’s doctor came into to check everything out and reported that she was 5.5 cm, and that the baby was going to be a little smaller than we had thought (a good thing). Erin then took a shower, and we decided we should order the epidural as her contractions were 1 minute apart and really strong. I left to grab breakfast and write this. I’ll write another update as soon as the baby is born :)

Posted by jeff on Saturday, November 15th, 2008, at 10:09 am, and filed under updates.

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