Yohei and I have been too busy to update this blog, because our baby Keila was born 11 days ago, on September 25 at 7:47pm, she weighed 6 lbs 15 oz. She is so precious, everything she does is so cute. I can stare at her all day. I think that she looks like Yohei now.
Keila came 6 days early. My water broke at 4:30am, Yohei and I gathered our things and went to the hospital. By the time I got to the hospital I was already dilated 2-3 cm, then about 45 minutes later I was 4-5 cm. At that point, for some reason my body stopped contracting naturally, about 10 hours later, it was already 3pm and I was still 4-5cm, the doctor told me I would have to stimulate my labor since my water had broken so long ago to avoid any risk to the baby. They gave me the most horrible drug on earth called pitocin. She hooked me up to the IV, the pitocin kicked in immediately giving me non stop contractions, It was really painful and after an hour I had only dilated 1 more cm, my body just couldnt "give in" to the pain so at that point I decided to get an epidural. 30 seconds after the epidural I couldn't feel my legs, stomach, or back. Labor progressed really quickly after that, everyone was telling me to push, I couldn't believe it was happening because I didnt feel anything.
When she came out I was so happy, I felt overwhelmed with emotion, she was so beautiful! Everything was there, all of her fingers and toes, she had 2 legs and 2 arms.
We had to stay in the hospital for one extra day because she was a little yellow and our doctor advised us to treat her for jaundice. She basically had to stay under these warm phototherapy lights all night and all day. She liked it, she didn't cry at all!
Yohei and I have been spending the past oouple of days sleeping when she sleeps, changing her diaper, feeding her, (she eats a lot)! Everytime I look at her I see how precious and innocent she is, I don't want anything bad to happen to her, I want to protect her. She is so fragile and sweet! Even though she is helpless she is a human and I want to do everything I can to make her comfortable and happy ;)
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