Matt and I, about a week before the big arrival! Lol, I ate ice cream, my teeth are it normally blue!
About me!
I'm 29 years old, and my name is Tammy, my husband is Matt and he's 27. We are both from a small town in Wisconsin, and met while working at a pizza restaurant. Matt enlisted into the Marine Corps in 2004, we were later reunited in 2008, and we married October 10th. Stationed at MCAS Cherry Point, NC, we went through a deployment together, and moved onto Hawaii for the next 3 years, where on October 26th, 2012, we found out we were expecting! The military would move us one more time to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
December 13th was my first OB, we heard the heart beat, I was almost 13 weeks pregnant! We had a healthy baby! No gender yet though.
Then in January at 15 weeks, we went and found out we were expecting a baby girl!! We had decided on two names Jocelyn and Madeline. We decided on Madeline, the middle name would be Jean, my sisters middle name.
My pregnancy was perfect! No morning sickness, no swelling, not any major complications! Baby girl was very easy on me! Heartburn was an issue come 32 weeks, definitely was uncomfortable, kept the tums by my side at all times! I absolutely loved her kicks and wiggles, but her hiccups , not so much!
39 weeks!
Fast forward, my water broke on July 6th a day before my due date while we were walking, I went home, showered and packed the last of my things needed for the hospital, while Matt went and dropped the dog off at the kennel. He came home, and me, him, and my mom were off to the hospital which was an hour away.
When we arrived at the hospital! 39 weeks 6 days!
I was checked in to the hospital and checked again I was at 4 cm, which I'd stay at for the next 23 hours! During this time we walked, and finally I was hooked up to pitocin, like maxed out pitocin, after 16 hours of labor I freaked myself out and got the epidural, where'd I'd still be in labor for another 7 hours, at 22 hours they were prepping me for a c-section if I didn't progress within the next couple hours.
Suddenly at 3:30 p.m. with lack of better term, I felt contractions, STRONG, like I was about to poop my pants! I was checked, and at a 9, it was time, nerves overcame me and I became emotional, and
very scared! The next 2 hours were very painful, as the epidural had worn off! My mom nearly passed out, it is funny now to think of why ( I was tearing ), in which I'd need 6 - 8 stitches, I can't remember exactly, the pain was unreal! No words! I was exhausted, but at 5:55 p.m. on July 7th, Madeline Jean made her entrance!
Madeline was placed on me immediately for skin to skin, where she was breastfed within the first 30 minutes, it was an amazing bonding experience, and set us up for success! I'll go into that in another post!
Fresh out of the womb and nursing!
After a exhausting 2 day hospital stay, because I was in labor for 24 hours after my water broke and they wanted to monitor for infection, we were sent home for an adventure of a life time!
Happy family!
Stay tuned :)
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