Lainey Lea Werner is here!

Lainey Lea Werner
Born: July 21, 10:08 p.m.
Weight: 7 pounds 8 ounces
Height: 20 inches

Ok - so here is the story of how Lainey was born. On Tuesday July 21st I woke up at 2 a.m. having contractions. I woke up Rod and 3:30 and told him that I needed to start timing them. Rod went to work at 4:30 and I got up showered, shaved my legs and prepared the rest of my morning to count contraction. I left for work and at 9:00 had a Dr. Appt. I was having contractions between 5 and 20 minutes apart but none of them were regular. Dr. Carlson told me I was dilated to a 3 but was only 70% effaced. So...he sent me home and we schedule to have a induction at 7 a.m. on Wednesday morning...I had a feeling that I wasn't going to make it until 7 the next morning. I came home and tried to sleep but the contractions started coming every 5 minutes apart. My mom got down here at noon and Rod got home around 2 from work. Rod's mom came and picked up Caden around 3:00 and then we headed for the hospital because I had contractions that were 5 minutes apart for 2 hours. I got to triage and I was still dilated to a 3 and 70% effaced. Dr. Carlson told them to give me two Ambien so that I could rest and to send me home. I was devastated, uncomfortable and tired. They told me to come back when they were 3-5 minutes apart for 2 hours. Well...as soon as I left triage they started coming every 3 minutes apart. We got home, I took the 2 Ambien but all that did was make me loopy and unable to concentrate. My contractions were getting horrible and I couldn't walk anymore. So...at 8:00 I told Rod I wanted to go back to the hospital. We got to St. Lukes at 9:00, I was dilated to a 5 and contractions were every 2 minutes apart, I was begging for the epidural. But, before I could have the epidural I had to have blood work done and get the results back. So...they told me the eip was on the way, I went to the bathroom, came back to my bed, started having a horrible contraction, stood up, water broke and she was crowing. 10 minutes later I was holding my beautiful baby girl. It was so sureal and I can't believe that is how everything happened. I never thought that I would have a text book labor..and as much as I was hurting and wishing I could have the epidural I wouldn't change it for anything. We got to come home last night at 10:00 and Caden is so happy that she is home. He is very hyper and wanting to know where she is at all times. He is going to be lots of help.

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