Happy Birth Day Anabelle Lucie!

Baby girl made her appearance on Friday, September 24 (her due date) at 3:46am at Evergreen hospital. She weighed 9 pounds 3 ounces and was 21.25 inches long.
On Thursday we closed on our house, so that night we were moving. I was moving boxes into the house around eleven and felt a little crampy, so I said a prayer she'd hold out another day so I could get some sleep (no such luck...) Around 12:45 I had a feeling I needed to get somewhere closer to the hospital just in case, so I headed over to Stephanie's house in Lynnwood. By 1:15 we were there and I thought I was probably in labor. I had Stephanie wake my mom up (she was staying there for the night since our guest bedroom was being packed)and they both helped me while I paced the living room and labored. I was getting anxious for Jeff to get back with the U-haul from Stanwood so we could maybe get going before too long- poor guy was working his tail off trying to get our enormous fridge through the front door and eventually had to abandon mission and leave it on the porch. He arrived at Stephanie's and my contractions were starting to intensify and I had to hum or moan to get through them. The only position I was tolerating was on all fours. We left for the hospital before too long and I managed to walk in, where they had me sign forms and go to triage. I was not wanting to be in triage at all- they were moving slow, slow, slow and wanted me to pee in a cup, check my cervix, etc. I don't think they thought I was very far along. I couldn't lay down long enough for her to check my cervix (clearly I am a bad patient) and ran off to the little bathroom, where I got on the floor and started pushing and being quite loud. At this point they decided to just put me in a room (thank goodness) and I got on all fours and pushed her out with just a couple of pushes. Yes, I gave birth like a cow. Her face was pretty bruised up from coming down so fast and she had meconium aspiration and needed PPV and cpap (breathing assistance) but she is doing great. I has a second degree laceration (her hand was up by her face...bummer) but it should heal up pretty well. Lots of after pains this time as expected, but doing ok with ibuprofen and a hot water bottle. My bleeding was a little heavy at first but I was lucky- they never had time to put in an IV so I didn't get any drugs before or after the delivery, including pit, so a little belly mashing (owey...) and I was good to go. A half an hour after her birth I got up, showered, and relaxed. She's a good nurser so that is a relief! The birth really wasn't too bad, there were only about 5 contractions that were really awful. Unfun, byt over with now and she is definitely worth it! She is a real sweet pea for sure :-) More photos to come soon!