The Caples: Isabella's {BIRTH}day

Wow did 9 months fly by so fast! Here's how Isabella's BIRTHday went. At five in the morning, I woke up feeling like I had just peed the bed! But the spot in our bed wasn't that big, about the size of my hand. I woke up Caleb and told him I thought my water had broke. Both of us were puzzled, so I called my mom. She said to call the hospital. I scrambled to find their number. They said to come in and I would get checked out. After telling Caleb what the nurse said, we decided to shower and eat because you never know how long your day at the hospital will be.

At the hospital, we were taken to a room to get tested to see if my water broke. It came back negative. I was bummed! Then the nurse asked, "Well I can probably pull a few strings around here, do you want to have her today?" AHH!! I didn't hesitate, YES! I blurted back at her. She said to wait a few minutes and she'd call the doctor to see if we could stay. Very shortly, she came back with a sly grin on her face. It's your lucky day, she told us. Your going to have your baby! We were ecstatic!

We left the first floor and headed up to the delivery room. By now we had called both our moms (Carol was in Salt Lake at Linzy's house) and they were both on their way. We got settled into our cute little room, I was hooked up to some IVs and monitors. And the wait began. It was only 9am and after a nurse did a little check, I was still only 2cm dilated, but 90% effaced. I was started on some pitocin to help thing get moving along.

Hooked up in the delivery room

Our doctor came close to 11am to pop my water. After he did, I now know that it didn't pop earlier that morning! No contractions had started, so Caleb and I broke out the cards. Contractions slowly began to start. We (and by we, I mean Caleb) watched some bowl games and sort of relaxed for a while. By 2pm, I had had enough and wasn't going to tough it out any more, bring in the anesthesiologist! All I felt was a cute little pinch and on came the relief. With in a few minutes, I couldn't feel my legs, or contractions!, any more.

Carol, Linzy, and Londyn arrived shortly after that from Lehi, and then my mom showed up all the way from Idaho. Now that baby could make her grand entrance, everyone was there. At 5pm, I was 5cm dilated and the nurse informed me I'd progress a cm an hour. Another 5 HOURS, I thought. I was exhausted. I decided to take a little snooze. A nurse came to check on me at 8pm to see how things were moving along. Linzy and Carol jokingly said "Think 10cm!" and what would you know I was fully dilated to 10cm!! I was a little groggy from my nap, but this baby was ready to be here (still unnamed by the way).

10cm, here comes a baby!

After a little practice push the nurse told me to stop, she needed to get the doctor. He was out to dinner and arrived in 15 minutes. He suited up and at 8:24pm our sweet Isabella Grace was born. The doctor said is was an almost textbook perfect delivery. We couldn't ask for anything more.