Lylah Renae

So I need to blog the latest and greatest. well that would the two greatest - Max is still up there. Its neck and neck.  February 21, 2013, 1:03pm, Lylah Renae Cortez was born.  She was due Feb 15, and once the date went by and I started to feel LESS pregnant, I went in to get her checked on the 20th.  No contracitons, no progression. I wasn't dialated and I didn't feel any pressure so I"m pretty sure she was low enough. So doc said that it probably would stay that way and that we would probably have to induce whenever I decided.  So she called the hospital to see when they have availability and they said "right now'.  Hmmm super.  So I wasn't sure, so I drove to Olympia with my mom to have lunch with Kendra and decided, sure why not, lets go home and head to the hospital. So I got showered, took one last pic of teh belly and headed in at 5:30pm.  By the time they got me hooked up (couldn't get the IV in all the way because it was the one day of the year i didn't drink any water).  So at 8:00 pm, i finally got the first ripening pill - cytec something or other.  Then another at midnight....started feeling contractions about 3:30am adn they came regularly every 3 minutes from then on.  I was a champ I must say.  I had two great nurses who told me how amazing I was and Lylah was born at 1pm....This first month has been a struggle and stressful adn strangely relaxing all at the same time.  Lylah is a sweet girl and Max loves her bunches. If she ever looks at this and wonders why she probably won't get a monthly post like her brother did - blame it on Max and the neediness of a 2 year old:)

 10 minutes after giving birth. Feels GREAT to be done.

 First Day home

 1 Week