Little Baby Jada Lynn Bowman

So... Daniel and I were in the hospital from Sunday night at 7:30 to Thursday afternoon around 3:00!! Let me tell you- way too long to be in the hospital! What happened was that the gave me.... what ever it is they give you to induce you and for two days I was at a 2! I wasn't progressing very fast and they didn't let me eat any thing but Ice chips and the occasional apple juice. By Tuesday I was a wreck. I even was crying in front of the Dr, which I normally don't cry in front of any body so you can imagine how bad it was.

Tuesday he finally gave me the option of breaking my water instead of waiting for everything to happen on it's own. I said lets do it and he broke my water right there and - HOLY COW! I had soooooo much water in there, they had to have two other nurses come in and help the one that was assigned to me to help her clean it up! That is the most akward feeling ever! They had my legs spread wide open and it was like I was peeing my pants and I had no control and an audience! Then the contractions came on REALLY strong and I almost broke Daniel's thumb (poor guy). I had to wait about 30 minutes before they could give me an epidural because they needed to pump me with more fluids. That was the most painfull 30 minutes of my life!

Then the guy came up to give me the epidural and he happened to be one of Daniel's soccer buddies from the out door league! Talk about akward! But one the pain meds kicked in Labor was actually enjoyable for me. Really I didn't feel a thing. Daniel and I watched some spongebob, we took naps and we found out the life story of the nurse! I went from a 2 at about 2:00 that after noon to a 10 at about 7:00! The nurses had to actually tell me when I was having contractions!

And at 8:20 Tuesday January 20, 2009 Jada Lynn was born! She weighed 8 lbs 1 oz, was 20 1/2 inches long and had red hair! So far she is a sweet tempered little girl that has an oppinion as to how she is going to be fed and really likes her daddy and his endless noises! Her sleep schedual is backwards (no surprise there) and I spend my nights trying to keep her fed and/or asleep! She's usaually not irratable at night, she just lays there with her eyes wide open and looking around at every thing and nothing! It's amazing how strong she already is! Her little legs allow her to climb upo her daddy's chest when he's trying to burp her! And if she does't want to nurse (which is always) she has no problem arching her back and pushing her self off of me!

Her hair is getting darker, but in certain lights there is no doubt that she's a red head! A girl after my own heart. She sleeps like a rock, which she gets from her dad, and she wakes up like me, wanting to go right back to sleep and not in the best of moods. She got my stubby little toes and she got Daniel's crooked pinky! She also got his very diffinitive cowlick! already her hair is doing exactly what it wants to! But it looks adorable with a little bow in her crazy- sticking-up-all-over- the-place hair! On a funny side note, the bows we stick in her hair are stuck there with KY jelly! The nurses taught us that one!