Veda Nicole

thanks for being so patient to see some pictures of the little angel. We feel very blessed to have her here and healthy. birthing a baby is always such an adventure!!!



we checked into the hospital at midnight on Monday. We were worried they would send us home because i hadn't progressed enough, but they admitted me with no questions asked. I must have LOOKED pregnant enough.
They induced using Cytotec. it's a pill they put by your cervix that gives you contractions, but doesn't necessarily give you labor contractions. It softens your cervix and gets your body ready for pitocin. It's usually followed by pitocin, but makes it so you don't need to be on pitocin for so long. in my case, the cytotec put me into heavy labor and i didn't need pitocin. My body produces some crazy intense contractions-- and i wanted to try to get an epidural even though i realize they don't always work for me. thank heavens i eventually worked!! i can tell that the anesthesiologist is aways a little stumped as to why they don't always work. this time it just took 5 times longer to work on me than it does on other people. i'm just grateful it finally worked!! i went pretty fast after the epidural started working, i remember hearing what i thought was the baby kicking the monitor. except it wasn't a kick... it was my water breaking. i was so numb from the epidural (and quite frankly feeling better than i had for weeks) that i didn't realize my water had broken. the nurse came in to check me and saw that my water had broken and that veda was on her way out. she quickly paged my ob... and we waited for her to start pushing.
the cord was around veda's neck, so unfortuunately she needed some help from a vacuum. (but thank heavens we have things like that to help!!).
Out she came!! I could tell that as soon as she came out, all ten people in the room were surprised by her size!!! 8 pounds, 6 ounces. it's really no wonder i have been so uncomfortable and in so much pain.. i was carrying around a big girl :)


not the best picture of me... but kind of expresses how i was feeling... "I did it!!!!"

meeting daddy.

still a little drunk from my epidural. wish i still felt like that :)

grandma and Veda after we got home yesterday

Getting ready to go home from the hospital. I have more pictures to share, but I will do another post one of these days.


If you MUST see more pictures, go to Bella Baby. our password is: 0301vedakeller
my favorites are #5 and #9