Birth

Ok... looks like I have a few minutes to update a little about Caylee's birth!  As said earlier, I had a c-sec at 39 weeks with her.  I don't know what I thought it would be, I guess no one had really told me what to expect.  I had heard it was the "easy" way.  I would disagree!! True, I didn't have to labor for hours on end, but the recovery was/has been way more difficult than I thought. 
The actual day of the c-sec we arrived at the hospital and it wasn't until that point that I was nervous.  They explained everything they were gonna do and it all started with a simple IV.  Well... I have great veins, but nurses never seem to be able to get an IV in.  So... 2 nurses, 1 anesthiesologist, 1 hour later and 10 IV tries I was ready for the surgery.  The surgery part was easy.  I didn't feel a thing and everything happened so fast (at least I think... I wasn't quie there all the way to know how much time had passed).  The next thing I knew I was asking Matt if they had started.  He laughed and said they had just about finished.  Shortly after they were holding her up and all I could say to Matt was "she has hair!".  I was so excited that she had a full head of hair.  The whisked Caylee and Matt away to the nursery for all the shots and clean up and everything else they do, while I stayed and was sewn up and moved to recovery.  They kept her in the nursery just a little bit because she was a little cold, so Matt came back to me and showed me the pics he had taken.  Then they brought her to us and life as a family of three began!

The recovery is still going on, but those first few days in the hospital and at home were the hardest.  I am sooo thankful Matt was around to change all the first diapers (seriously, I don't think I changed a diaper for about 4 days!) and sooo glad for the people I had come stay with me who got me through the first 2 weeks! I could not have done it without them!!!  More on visitors later...