Dear Quinn,
Your due date was May 8, 2011, but when we went to the DR the week before, he thought you were nice and comfy and that we would be setting up a day to evict you. So I went to work on Monday, May 9th to tie up my loose ends at the office. It was a beautiful day, so on my way home, I stopped and bought some flowers to pot, I figured I had plenty of time to get some flower pots done before you made your arrival. You had other plans though.
I got home that afternoon and swept the back patio before getting started. As I sat down to plant my flowers, it felt like I had wet my pants. I quickly grabbed your puppy Harley and went inside where I called Daddy at work and the doctors. Daddy worked an hour away, so when the DR wanted to see me, I called your Gramma & Pa. It just so happened that they had been out running errands and were not that far away. Gramma & Pa came over and we decided that Pa would take me to the hospital where we would meet Daddy and Gramma would stay with Harley.
Pa got a little nervous on the road when we hit lots of traffic, but I was in a great mood - and the good news traveled fast because your Aunt Kristin started texting me immediately - which kept me busy! When we got to the hospital I was examined and they determined that my water had broken, but I was having no contractions. When Daddy got there, we sent Pa on his way and we were sent upstairs to Labor & Delivery to see if my body would start having contractions on it's own.
It didn't. And your Daddy was a champ that night. Every time I got up to use the bathroom (which was a lot) your Daddy had to follow behind me with towels, because I kept leaking (this is one of those things no one tells you about)...
So, at 5am, we started Pitocin. The doctors came in periodically through the morning to check my progress (there wasn't much) and they kept mentioning how your head was becoming pointed and that they were concerned about how big you were going to be. Finally at 11am I was at 4cms and feeling no pain. Then the doctors decided to insert a catheter to measure the effectiveness of the contractions. After that procedure, I decided I needed an epidural. Sometime around 1pm, I had not progressed any further and we started discussing the possibility of a c-section. Seeing we were heading toward 24 hours after my water breaking, I started to get anxious and asked what we were waiting for, when could we go get this baby! It was just before 2pm when we decided surgery was the way to go!
Then things started happening fast and before I knew it, I was being wheeled down to the Operating Room. Before we left Labor and Delivery, I took a minute and asked your Daddy what he thought - Boy or Girl. I was convinced you were going to be a boy, but Daddy said girl. And at 3:02pm on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 he was proven correct and you were born!
Weighing in at 7lb 11 oz and 21in., you were hardly the big baby everyone thought you were going to be!
At that moment, our lives changed completely and we experienced complete happiness!
Love, Mommy
