Roxy is here!

On October 28th we welcomed Roxanne RaNae Skinner to our family. Because of Ryan's travel schedule and wanting family in town I got induced 8 days early. This girl still came out 8lbs 10 oz. and 21 inches. My biggest baby so far. I was expecting a little petite girl but I guess she knew she better pack on the weight before her wild brothers could get their hands on her:)

This, by far, was my most miserable pregnancy and delivery.
I got my epidural which was awesome until it wore off after an hour of pushing which left me pushing for a whole other hour completely feeling everything including being stitched back up. I bet Ryan has never heard screaming like he heard that night. I was a mess!!!

Finally after 2 hours of pushing my 8 lb 10 oz baby girl joined us, as soon as the Dr. left the nurse called him to come back because she was "uncomfortable with how much blood I was losing". That made me feel great;).

I have a history of fainting right after giving birth so I warned my nurse which let me stay in the room a little longer than usual until I felt ok. As soon as I got in the wheel chair to be wheeled to my room everything went silent and started going black. She kept telling me to open my eyes and keep talking to her but I couldn't stop my head from wobbling and I really didn't care at that point what she wanted.

As soon as I got in my room and in my bed I felt better and all of the nurses were warned about me. hahaha. They decided to keep my catheder and IV in so that I didn't have to get up the rest of the night because no one wanted to have to clean me up off of the floor.

The next morning the nurse came in and told me that my hemoglobin was extremely low and that they wanted me to get a blood transfusion. (it is supposed to be at a 13- before the delivery mine was at 8 and after it dropped to 6.4) In other words I had lost a ton of blood and was completely anemic. I decided not to do the transfusion and to try Iron pills first.

They then introduced me to my new antibiotic for a UTI i was getting. I could not believe my luck!

Both of my boys were a little jauniced at birth so I figured this baby probably would be too. She was a little jauniced when we left the hospital Saturday morning. I scheduled the follow up with her pediatrician on Monday where we got her newest lab results. Her biliruben was at a dangerous level so my Dr. told us he was admitting her to the hospital to control it. It was supposed to be for 2 days that she was in the hospital but she got to come home after one day luckily.

As exhausted as I have been I felt I was starting to feel comfortable with the whole 3 kid thing (haha) until last night I felt the beginning of a mastitis infection. This morning I felt that it was full blown (I had mastitis when Dane was a baby- the WORST pain of my life). I started my newest antibiotic tonight and along with my percocet I am feeling a little better and hope to have better luck in the next couple of days.

All I can say is that as crappy and draining as the last week has been, this little girl has totally been worth every bit of it.

She has lots of dark hair like Dane but blue eyes like Johnny.