Kimberly Brooklyn

I started getting checked in the hospital Wednesday at 7am. They started the potossum by 8:15. They kept checking on me and asking me if I was feeling the contractions yet. Then they'd up the dosage. I was quickly up to the maximum dosage. I told myself that I wouldn't ask for an epidural till 1:00. By then I had some good contractions lasting up to ten minutes and less than two minutes apart I think. I had a good friend with me that helped me through the contractions by pushing on my pressure points. She kept telling me that I didn't need and epidural. I tried to get one and it didn't work at all. Two epidurals later, we decided to try a spinal tap. As I was getting that, I had a super hard contraction and three pushes later, she was here. I tore a little, but nothing like the first. Kimberly Brooklyn Parkin entered the world on Wednesday, April 7, 2010 at 2:45pm. She weighed 7 lbs., 3 oz. and was 19 1/4 inches long. As painful as natural childbirth was, I think it was so much better. The recovery has been amazing!It killed to have the afterbirth pushed out.

The nurse forgot to grab the towel after she started bathing Sydney, so her proud grandma got to help.

I love this picture!

She got pretty beat up. She came too fast. This is a pic from the next day.

When my friend brought Sydney in, you would have thought she wasn't ours. She didn't care about us at all. Eventually she wanted to hold her sister. She cried when our friend left her with us for a few hours. It was too funny!

Heading home!