I haven't updated in a while...

I can't believe how long it's been since I've updated this thing!
We'll we had our precious little girl Adeline Lauren Kabbani on December 4th, 2008 at 6:31p.m. She was 8lbs 2oz and 20 inches long. She was delivered by c-section after 20 hours of induced labor! She is the cutest, sweetest, most amazing thing that's ever happened to me! I can't even remember what life was like before we had her and I don't care! lol!

So my birth story goes something like this....

On December 3rd, 2008 I went to West Valley hospital to be induced at 8:40p.m. They immediately started the cervidil inserts to try and get me to dialate. I was only dialated to a 1 and was 50% effaced. I started having contractions right away. So we started walking....we would walk for an hour around L&D, then I would get another insert of Cervidil. After a couple hours the contractions were so painful that they gave me Stadol to help with the pain. I was pretty much out after that. They checked me a couple times during the night and I was dialating REALLY slowly. At about 9:00a.m. my doctor came and broke my water. The contractions got REALLY bad after that so I had my epidural at about 11:00a.m. when I was 3-4 centimeters dialated. I kept getting checked all day and was not moving past 5 centimeters. They gave me this peanut shaped birthing ball to put between my legs to try and help her move down the birth canal so I could dialate further. At about 3;30p.m. the doctor came to talk to me about how I wasn't progressing and he though a c-section would be in my future. I told him I wanted to wait it out a little further and he agreed he would give me a little longer but if they checked me and I wasn't progressing we would do a c-section. At 4:30p.m. he came back in a checked me and I hadn't move at all! I was still at 5! So he gave me a half hour to try and progress. At this point I was having terrible back labor and the birthing ball was making me really angry! The nurse checked me at 5:00p.m. and I was still at 5 so they started prepping me for a c-section! I was crying because I REALLY didn't want things to go this way but Andrew and my family were really reassuring so I calmed down a little bit. We ended up waiting until about 6:20p.m. to get into the OR because my doctor's surgery assistant was stuck in traffic...but it was ok because I decided to take a nap! lol! So they brought us into the OR and at 6:31p.m. she was here! I am ultimately glad we had the c-section because the cord was wrapped around her neck twice so having her vaginally could have posed some major complications! They took her and Andrew to the nursery and I was left there in the OR while they were putting me back together! I was shaking so bad from the spinal and the medication that I didn't get to hold her until she was about an hour old. I really wanted to have her naturally but I decided that it doesn't matter how she got here, it only matters that she is here! Here are some pictures from labor and delivery!

Here is Addie fresh from the oven:


Addie and Mommy:


Daddy and Addie:


Those hospital clothes weren't good enough for our girl, lol!


Ready to go home: