So this past weekend was a roller coaster of events! It all started on Thursday. I had an appointment with Dr. McQuillin to have a sonogram done of the baby to check if she was head down and do a BPP, which checks the amniotic fliud around the baby. The results of the BPP was 3.85 and it needed to be at least a 5. Therefore, Dr. McQuillin decided it was time to induce and get the baby out. She sent me immediately from her office to the hospital to get checked in. I had been joking with my mom telling her i wanted to be induced because I was ready to see Payton, but little did I know it would really happen so soon. I was only 36.6 weeks and still had a little over 3 weeks until my due date. Luckily my mom had went to the appointment with me, because Chris was out on a job working. I could not get ahold of Chris at first to let him know what was going on because he wasn't getting any service. The secretary finally got ahold of him and he headed home to get my bag and everything I needed for the hospital since I was so not prepared. Chris arrived and finally around 2:00 the inserted the first dose of cytotech to begin softening my cervix and dilating. The gave me a dose every 4 hours throughout the rest of the day and night. At about 6:00 in the morning my water broke on its own, but I was still not dilated at all. They checked me again around 8:00 and I was finally dilated a fingertip (still not 1 cm). They could not give me pitocin to further the labor until I dilated to 1 cm. The checked me again around 11 and I was still the same. Dr. McQuillin came in and said that once your water brakes you typically dilate 1 cm an hour, but yet my water had been broke nearly 5 hours and still I wasn't even to 1 cm. We finally decided to go for a c-section. And around 12:45 they wheeled me to the OR and began my c-section. At 1:14 p.m. on August 7th, Payton Grace Hall arrived weighing in at 6 pounds 2.8 ounces and 19 1/4 inches long! She was having difficulaty breathing so I did not get to see her long in the OR until the took her back to the nursery. They put her in an oxygen tank. Finally around 5:00 p.m. they said she was off oxygen but still breathing fast, and therefore could not come to the room. Chris and I finally got to go done to the nursery that evening and visit her, but still could not hold her. She had to spend the night in the nursery. The next morning the pediatrician came in and told us that her chest xray showed an enlarged heart and they could hear a murmur. We finally insisted on hold her, so they let Chris and I go down to the nursery and hold her for a little while! They called in a Pediatric Cardiologists to come and check Payton out. They found a small hole in her heart but believed she would grow out of it on her own and would not need treatment. Finally that afternoon she get to come to our room!!! I got to breastfeed her for the first and it was amazing! She spent the whole night in our room! Anyways, we had to stay in the hospital for 3 nights, because Payton was receiving IV antibiotics. We finally got home yesterday around 12. And it has been nice to finally be home!!! We are enjoying every minute of being parents!! Here are a few picture of our new daughter, Payton Grace Hall!
