Hazel Ann Broadbent is here!

She is here! The short story is that she was born March 29th 10:27pm. She is 20.5 inches and 10 pounds, 10 ounces. (scroll to the bottom if you're only here for pictures)

The long story...
I was 4 days over due. I went in for a non stress test on Monday and passed. Which was probably good because my doctor was out of town till Thursday noonish.

Thursday morning I did a lot of walking and went in for another non stress test. By now my parents had been here for 5 days and still no baby. My Dad reminded me he was really only here for the baby every chance he got, and "When do you think we will get to meet that baby..." It was getting old.

Luckily on Thursday we failed the non stress test. I think it helped that the nurse doing the test was the wife of another Provo Firefighter and she took sympathy on me. The good news, I would get induced! The bad news, they still couldn't reach my Doctor. If you remember from my last post, any time after noon on Thursday I should have been golden. However, here is was 3pm and no one knows where he is. But since I had already "Failed" they couldn't just let me go home.

In the end I had to check into Utah Valley Hospital (second choice) and was "monitored" for 2 more hours while they located my doctor. Then I was finally allowed to checkout and go to Orem Community Hospital (first choice) and start the induction.

They started the pitocin about 6pm. By now I was already dialated to a 4. The last 3 weeks I have been "barely a 1" which makes me think Hazel would have been here in a day or two even without being induced. The nurse encouraged me to get the epidural right away. So 30 minutes later I got that too, before the contraction even started to hurt. Wonderful! The epidural hurt a lot more then I remembered, probably because I wasn't distracted by painful contractions.

By 9 I was only dilated to a 5. I was sure this was going to be a long and slow labor. But at least it was pretty laid back. Nate and I were watching Myth Busters and except for the one time I threw up, it was kind of fun and laid back. I think Nate was even a little bored. Nothing like my first two labors!

Then a little before 10 my water broke and I was suddenly ready to deliver. We just had to wait for the doctor, which felt like forever. Just like my last two babies I only had to push for a couple minutes. She was born at 10:27pm.
She didn't cry right away, it took about 5 minutes, that bothered me. The doctor kept saying "Not all babies cry, but she is breathing, that's what matters." But I sure felt a lot better when I finally heard her cry.

Her weight was a surprise to everyone in the delivery room. She weighed in at 10 pounds 10 ounces and 20.5 inches long. She beat both her brothers by a pound and a half. They even had to fetch new diapers because she was too big for the newborn ones they had in the delivery room.


The next day Nate brought the boys to meet her. They were very shy at first. They really didn't know what to make of this little lady. But the warmed up to her eventually.

When she was about 2 weeks old Trey said to me "Sometime when baby was in your tummy we would hurt her because we didn't know how cute she was." That made me melt! (by 'hurt' he means jumping on me, leaning on my stomach, etc.)We named her Hazel Ann Broadbent. Ann is my middle name too.

This is my favorite picture of her so far. She was about 10 days old here.