Jocelyn Sarah Fox

The day after Christmas I woke up and decided I needed to get Christmas put away as much as possible. So I started on the trees. Since we had 3 this year that wasn't an easy feat.  Brett knew I had been having contractions for what seemed like days so he kept asking me how I was feeling.  We got all 3 trees undecorated and 2 of the trees down and put away. The real one was drug outside.  Well it must have kicked something into gear because I decided to call my doctor's office.  I didn't tell Brett I did until I got off the phone and said, the midwife wants me to come into the office.  I went in thinking I was probably going to be sent home.  She checked me and said…do you think your going to have a baby today? I told her, I think so but I'm not sure. She said well your 5 cm easy and your bag of water is bulging. Why don't you go home and get your stuff together and meet me at the hospital.  OK.  So I drove home and called Brett and told him what she said.  We took our time getting stuff together and then headed to the hospital.  Jolie and Genna had their friends Savannah and McKenzie over so we called their mom to let her know that we just left all the kids at our house without us.  She is wonderful and came over and jumped in. She fed them dinner and waited there until we had the baby.  Thankfully I don't have very long labors and so they didn't have to wait very long.
This labor was very different from my others though.  Since I had a midwife this time she was very much the let's just wait and see what happens approach.  So no pitocin this time.  She tried to get me to do it without the epidural but with what happened with Jacob I didn't want to.  Although now after the fact I do think I could have done it better this time because contractions without the pit are more manageable…not easy but not quite as hard.  I felt the urge to push and the midwife came over and very calmly told me to start pushing. She didn't break down the bed or anything just sat on the side.  She asked Brett to hold a leg and the nurse held the other. It was all very low key.  The pushing took longer this time, I'm convinced because I didn't have the pit to help with that part.  She finally was born and they immediately put her on my chest.  She just laid on me for a while…so long in fact Brett was getting quite anxious to hold her.  Eventually they took her and weighed her.  7lbs 10oz. WOW, we've never had a baby that big.  She was 21 1/2 in. long as well.  Once she was wrapped up we called our friend to bring the kids up to meet the baby.  The staff at the hospital all knew this was my 6th baby so they weren't surprised when a herd of kids came in.  They were all SO excited to meet her and hold her.   Her poor little face was badly bruised. The pushing took a while but when she finally came out she came out FAST, so it bruised her cute little face!    Kelly ( our friend) left the kids with us at the hospital and took her girls home.  Our other friend came up to the hospital to take the kids home and put them to bed.  Brett left a few minutes after her to help, since the baby had to go to the nursery for a little while!  Jocelyn was very sleepy that first night and slept great!