Oh My Slacker!

Wow, I don't even know how to use Blogger anymore...it changed so much in the past 5 months :)  I guess that's what I get for not blogging.  Ha, well here we go again.  I'll start with the most recent happenings and back track to Italy (which was fabulous).  On July 28, 2012 at 10:23 am we welcomed Little Miss Quincy into our family!  Weighing in at 6 lbs 5 oz and measuring 18.5 inches long she's our smallest baby so far.  She also has the most amount of hair.  Out of control hair.  I comb it down and it poofs up!  I love it though.  Wouldn't want it any other way. She has been an angel baby so far.  As I'm typing this she is 3 weeks old.  I feel like we've had her a lot longer.  Did I really have a baby 3 weeks ago?  It's just weird :) So here is her birth story just so I don't forget.  Coop and Addie were both early.  Coop was 1 week and Addie was 3.  So I had expectations of having little miss Q early.  I don't remember being so anxious and ready to be DONE with the other two.  So when I went in for my 37 week check up and found out I was pretty much progressed to nothing I was not happy!  I came home and cleaned house, bounced on the ball, went swimming, ya know, tried not to just sit. The next week at my 38 week check up I left a little more content.  Dilated to a 3 almost 4 I was happy.  Well, with Coop when I was that far progressed he came the next day.  So I went home kind of thinking she'd make her arrival within a couple of days.  I wasn't that far off having her 3 days later.  Friday night we went and got some mexican food and came home to watch the opening ceromonies for the Olympics.  I watched while bouncing on the ball of course.  Still no baby.  Slept pretty good that night.  Woke up at 4:55am to go to the bathroom.  Got back in bed.  Couldn't fall asleep.  Got out of bed at 5:05 to go downstairs.  I got to the doorway and........my water broke! So glad it wasn't in my bed:)  Woke Tan up and said it was go time.  He was so nervous.  It was fun to watch him.  I wasn't having any contractions so I wasn't that worried.  Cooper was delivered about 1.5 hour after my water broke and we lived 2 minutes from the hospital.  This time the hospital was a good 30 minutes away so I understood why he was kind of freaking out!  We woke the poor kids up, called Tan's brother to meet us at the hospital to grab the kids and we were off.  We got to the hospital right before 6:00.  I was then dilated to a 5 with no contractions still.  Once we got into my room and hooked all up it was a waiting game.  Cooper came on his own with no help whatsoever.  I didn't have time to get an epidural with him he came so fast.  This time it was looking like I had time to choose to get an epidural.  I said NO.  What was I thinking!  Oh well.  I could always change my mind they told me.  After an hour or so of irregular contractions they started me on some Pitocin.  With Pitocin they can knock it all the way up to 100.  They started me at 2.  After an hour they knocked it up to 4.  Well, that's all I needed.  I got up to go to the bathroom a while later and almost passed out while having one major long contraction!  It was all downhill from then.  Meaning, it was pretty painful :)  They checked me and I was an 8 and ready to push!  YAHOOOO!  They called the doc in and it was go time.  Contractions hurt really really bad.  During natural child birth you almost go into a delirious state it hurts so bad. You just want to punch something really hard!  Luckily for me (and the main reason I choose to go natural) my body doesn't like to mess around and gets those babies our fast!  I pushed through 3 contractions, probably about 7 minutes and little Q was out!  She was soooo tiny!  She was my smallest but she seemed extra small to me. She had TONS of hair also.  She really has been such a good little girl.  Only causing me one night where I was "done" so far.  Addie loves her and always comes and touches her hair and says "soft hair, ahh."  Coopman is not so interested.  That's ok.  He will come around.  Having 3 kids definitely keeps you busier but my kids are well behaved for the most part so it makes it a little easier!