Our baby girl has arrived.........

Well, I haven't wrote in this much throughout my pregnancy, but we wanted to start it back so we can look back at all the memories with Adalyn.
The whole pregnancy went pretty good. The only concern throughout was my size. The doctor ordered me to get non-stress tests once a week bc I was always measuring small so he wanted to make sure the baby was healthy.
I was due on Dec. 31st, so when my Jan. 4th appt. came around, the doctor suggested I be induced on Jan. 6th. Well, Adalyn had her own plans. Tuesday around 1pm, I wasn't feeling well and contracting a little here and there. By the time 3pm came around, they were stronger. I was by myself bc Brent had class until 8pm. I called him and told him that I was timing them and they were real painful. I told him I would wait till he got home to go to L&D bc I know they send people home that aren't dialated enough and I would rather go through the pain at home. Brent got home and we packedup and left.
We got to the hospital and I was 6cm dialated. Here we go!!!! Well, it was about 9pm by the time we got to our room and everything was going well. By 1am, they thought I would progress more with an epidural because I would relax more. An hour later I was 100% and 10cm dialated. 3am they said I could start pushing (thinking it wouldn't take too long). Well, as the nurses were saying, my bones were very narrow and that was going to give me a hard time. It was a horrible next 5 hours and after about 3 I thought for sure they would want me to have a c section. They knew I didn't want a c section, so the nurses were keeping me positive. They normally don't want people to push that long, but Adalyn was strong and wasn't showing any distress. I was also doing fine vital-wise, but I felt like I was slowly dying, lol! The doctors changed shifts at about 7:45am, so my doctor (McDonnell) came in and wanted to get her out because it was way too long. He had to use the forsups (little did I know it would make healing a lot longer), but I was so ready for him to do whatever he had to. Oh and I didn't mention that they had to turn the epidural off, so the worst pain, I felt for the last hour!! It was a lot different than what I expected, but it was so worth it. Adalyn finally arrived at 8:02am at 7lb 9ozs (small?? I think not) and 20.5 inches long. She was perfect and it was so nice to finally meet her. We are home healing and enjoying eachother now. She is a great baby so far and we love her!!!