The Conception and Birth of L!

It took us about a year and a half to conceive L. In some ways she was a surprise. We had been TTC, but then my younger sister got pregnant unexpectedly and I was dealing with the fallout of that. She still lived at home with my parents and was completing a master’s degree and had only been with the boyfriend for about a month. Needless to say, things got ugly.

Once things started to calm down and the family began accepting there was a new little person in our lives, M decided to quit his job and start his own business; which meant we wouldn’t have insurance for a while. We decided to stop actively TTC, but opted not to use protection. How could we get pregnant when we weren’t trying, if we couldn’t when trying? Well……we got pregnant. It was a really uneventful pregnancy, aside from the fact that I gained 60+ lbs. The two worst parts were that I had really severe heartburn the entire time and sciatic nerve pain. Other than those few things it was a great pregnancy with absolutely no issues. Unfortunately, I never went into labor on my own and at 42 weeks my doc insisted we try to induce.

We got to the hospital the night of my 27th b-day and started the induction process. Everything started out slowly, they were very busy in L&D. It was a rough night and morning. Not the contractions. I was doing fine with those, but I never progressed, the heartburn was horrendous and I was not allowed to eat anything. I didn’t progress, because her head just wouldn’t engage. Ultimately, we had a c-section and our beautiful daughter was born. 9lbs 5oz! No wonder her head wouldn’t engage, she was huge!