Birth Story

Friday, March 30, 2012

• 7:30 am arrive at hospital
• 8:30 am Dr Nippert arrives and checks me Dilated toa  4 and 60 % effaced
• (miracles do come to those who wait apparently)
• break my water, start the pit
• 10:00 am starting to feel contractions and order the epidural
• 10:45 Epidural kicked in just as the contractions started to get heavier
• Benji was fantastic. No pain. No sticking me twice with that needle. Awesome
• Dilated to a  6 (I'm thinking geez this is taking forever but patiently waiting. Here I am relaxed and ready to go)

• 12:00 pm Amber the nurse checked me and said. "You are a 5" I said, what? "She said just kidding, you are a 10. Let's call the doctor!"
• 12:45 pm Dr Nippert arrived. The nurses seemed to be a little short-handed or crazy at that moment. Dr Nippert said they are like chickens with their heads cut off. 4 births at the hospital in 4 different rooms within 6 minutes of each other. Dr Nippert said, all that really matters is that I'm here and so are you. Let's get this show on the road.
• 1:01 pm all set up and I started to push. 5 big pushes and her head crowned. Dark black hair! Mike got woosy and sat down, waited for a contraction to come for one last push.
• 1:04 pm Out she comes. Not just the head, her whole body too. Apparently the cord was wrapped around her neck twice, Mike said Dr Nippert was so efficient she had it off in seconds.

Here she is: 7 lbs 14 oz and 19.5 inches long

The baby surprised us with black hair and dark eyes. We weren't sure if the name we had chosen matched her. For 2 days, we had a nameless baby.

Maddy and Jack and Grampa arrived and patiently waited for me to be taken to my room. They were so excited to see their new baby sister. No Grama and Lexi...Lexi threw up that morning and the two of them stayed home and played. Thanks Tif for cleaning up vomit and taking care of my baby!

Grampa dropped of M&J at Bridget's house to play for the evening and my dad headed to BYU for an alumni event. Thanks Dad for taking the kids wherever they needed to be.

Alex & baby. Mike didn't get a picture of her cute belly. Alex is 8 weeks out for having a baby. Yay for cousins. Here's Jake checking out the baby... still no name yet.

Finally got a bath and a cute pink bow put in her hair. Check out my double chin!!

She wasn't too happy with more pictures.

And later that evening we had more visitors and dinner and dessert. Thanks for the chocolate and vanilla shakes! Here's Great Grandma Loveridge.

Grandpa Loveridge

Grandma Loveridge

And Great Grandpa Loveridge

And a picture with mom and dad.

Saturday morning, Mike brought the kids over again to see their sister. Lexi was so excited to meet her lil sis.

And Maddy loves to hold her.

And we attempted to capture a wonderful family first photo and this is what we got. Oh well, all that matters is that we are all in it!

I decided to stay 2 nights at the Hospital to try and get some extra sleep. Didn't really help. The nurse that night was either too busy for me or didn't remember I kept asking her for things. I did get a little sleep but was ready to come home on Sunday. Mike's parents brought dinner and sat with the kids while Mike picked me and the baby up. Still no name. BUT I had to have a name before leaving the hospital. Nothing still felt inspired. That morning Mike and I were texting each other back and forth, he was asking the kids what they thought of this name. Lexi was always persistent that her name was Lilly. She said it was her favorite. So I wrote down Lillian Margaret. At least 1 of us knew what this baby's name should be.

Madison Brooke - Brooke is my mom's name (Maddy's grandma)
Jack Michael -  Jack is from Grandpa Price (although his name was John but went by Jack) and Michael is obviously from his father
Alexis Mae - Mae is from great great grandma Hansen (Bertha Mae)
Lillian Margaret -  Lilly's great great grandma Loveridge was Olive Lillian.
Margaret is also a family name. It is Lilly's great grandma Perri (my mom's mom). I really wanted the baby to be called Maggie and maybe that's why I had such a struggle with her name but Maddy and Maggie are way too close. So we used Margaret as a middle name instead.

Each of our children have a name from each side of our family. That is why Ava, Rylee, Olivia, Brooklyn, Katelyn & many others were voted out...we needed a name from the Loveridge family.

5 days later, I'm happy to announce I remember to call her Lilly instead of Lexi and feel that we choose the right name. Or I should say, I chose the right name, because Mike said it was my decision.