Welcome to the World Madelyn

I realize that Madelyn is now five days old and I should have posted sooner, but I am just now getting to posting. Sorry :) Madelyn Lucy Hendrickson was born on June 3rd at 4:23pm and weighed 7 lbs 13 ounces. We went into the hospital at 5:00am on Thursday where they started me on pictocin to get my contractions started reguarly. My doctor came at 6:45am to break my water which really got the contractions going. It was about 8:00am when I decided I was ready for my epidural. My nurse said I was progressing enough and that she would call the anesthelogist and we could get that started. I knew I wanted an epidural and after having some pretty hard contractions, I was definitely ready. Unfortunatley, there were mutiple girls laboring at the same time and I had to wait until 9:45am to get the epidural. Waiting was not fun! But by 10am I was feeling pretty great and even slept for an hour. My favorite part was Brandon telling me I was having a contraction while I was just relaxing. I progressed about a cm an hour from there on out. When I was about a 6 the nurse came and checked me and said that she was face up, not face down like she was suppose to be. We hoped that by the time I was a ten she would have turned herself. She eventually came most of the way but did need a little help with the remaining little turn. By 2pm I was a full ten and ready to push. Even though I had an epidural, I had really bad back pain. It was almost worse then the contractions in the morning. It was how Madelyn was laying that was causing me the back pain. My nurse said that maybe pushing would help and since I was ready that we should do that. I was more than ready to start pushing :) I pushed for about 3 hours, that was quite tiring and honestly I was not prepared for how long it would take, but I was able to make it through. Our doctor was called and she was born at 4:23pm. It was an amazing experience when they placed her on my belly. All I could see was her big cone shaped head. Everyone said she was perfect except for her cone head. I begged to differ, that was one of my favorite parts, I worked hard to produce that cone head and I thought it was perfect. When she was born, I heard the nurse say "Doctor there is a true knot in the cord" I was not sure what that meant but I could tell from the tone of the nurse that it was serious. I am not sure what the doctor did but he took care of it right away. After the nurse came and talked to us and said it is rare that there is a complete knot in the umbilical cord and it can be quite serious and even fatal, but thankfully it turned out just fine and there was nothing to be concered about. It has been great having a little baby and I feel so blessed that everything went so well. Enjoy the pictures!