Sadie Lea Christensen

My little Sadie is here!  She is to die for! It started out with the discussion of an early induction so that Birgitta and my Mom could schedule a time to come.  My original due date was the 30th so Sadie came 10 days early.   The Dr had me come into St Joseph's hospital in Milwaukee on the 19th to start the process with a cervix ripener.  They started the pitocin around 5:45 am on the 20th.  The Dr came in around 9:00 am to pop my water.  That was extremely painful by the way!  They started my epidural soon afterwards.  I took a short nap and felt the baby drop as I inclined my bed.  It was extremely painful.  I started to bawl.  The nurse checked me and found that I was at an 8 and called the Dr.  I had the urge to push but they wouldn't let me as they were waiting on the Dr to arrive.  It took me 15 min to progress to a 10.  I was in a lot of pain until the boost of medication finally kicked in.  By then the Dr had just arrived and was shocked to see the head.  They got things rolling quickly and it took me one push.  There she was!  Born at 11:44 am.  20 in, 7 lb 15 oz.
A lot of these pictures are repeats from my facebook account.  I tried to add some new ones.

Birgitta getting her feet rubbed. Wasn't I the one that just had a baby? ;)