There's a new sister in town!

It seemed like a long wait to September 9th, 2010, which was when little Chloe was due to come into our lives. My mom, Jessi, and Willie all came to visit and to help with Chloe once she arrived. Willie had to go home on August 25th because he had to start school the next week, but Jessi and my mom stayed.

Well, September 9th came, and went.... no baby.My doctor was great and tried to help get Chloe here on time by trying different methods. Nothing seemed to work. My doctor was on-call from Sunday September 12th at 6pm until Monday September 13th at 6pm. We wanted to schedule an induction for Sunday night (so that Dr. Hazelrigg could be the doctor to deliver her). Unfortunately, the hospital was booked for inductions that night and couldn't do it. I was finally scheduled for Wednesday, September 15th at 10am.

In the meantime, my family kept me up and walking all day long (and going over speed bumps a little faster than normal) to try to get me going... nothing seemed to work. Sunday morning, I got up as usual to get ready for church, but it seemed that maybe I wouldn't be going to church today. I was cramping a little bit and felt as if I was slowly peeing my pants and had no control over it.

Jordan took me into the hospital around 10am and sure enough, my water had broken, and I was already dialated to a 4. The nurse knew my water was broken without even running the test (but she had to anyway for the records). I was put into a Labor and Delivery room right around 11am and pitocin was started by 12 noon. This was finally it! She was finally going to be born!

I was fine until around 2 or 3 when the contractions started hurting REALLY bad. Jordan and Jessi had gone down to the cafeteria to grab something quick to eat and of course that's when the pain started to really hurt.

Once Jordan and Jessi got back, I got the epidural and life was good. I couldn't feel ANYTHING past my stomach. Dr Hazelrigg was notified that I was in labor, so he arrived at the hospital at 5:30pm (half hour early), so that he could be ready whenever Chloe was.

The nurse finally told me around 6:00pm that I was ready to push. (Isn't the mom supposed to be the one to tell the nurse that she's ready to push?) I was so numb, I couldn't even feel the contractions enough to know WHEN to push, and was able to push harder than I ever could if I could have actually felt the pain. I ordered my dinner and dinner arrived at 6:30pm, but Chloe wasn't here yet, so I had to wait. Dr. Hazelrigg came in and we started pushing at 6:39pm. I'm not sure how many pushes it took, but Chloe Marie Jones was born at 6:45pm! That's right... 6 minutes of pushing!

Chloe Marie Jones was born at 6:45pm, 20.5 inches long, 8lbz 12 oz (almost 1.5 lbs heavier than her big sister). I was really glad to finally be able to eat, and this labor was soooo much more enjoyable than the last time. I remembered to eat something small before heading to the hospital, I was only in the hospital for about 8 hrs before having the baby (versus almost 27 hrs), and the epidural was perfect the first time (instead of being "okay" after 5 tries).