So I haven't had the chance to blog in a while....I've been busy with our little one, who finally decided to grace us with her presence 6 days after her due date!!
Sophia Rose Santoro is here!!!
She is 3 weeks old today and even though it has probably been the most tiring 3 weeks of my life, I will say that they have also been very memorable and wonderful weeks, starting with the moment Sophia came into the world.
This blog will mostly be about the experience and then I will do a separate entry full of pictures....she is so adorable, there are definitely lots of great pictures of her!!
Going back to my last blog, I still had another week and one more doctors appointment until my actual due date (which was Sept 1). At my final doc appointment, 2 days before said due date, I was only dilated at 2 cm...pretty depressing but the doc said everything did look good and she was pretty sure that I would be heading to the hospital later that week to have the baby...but just in case not, we set up an induction date of Sept 7 (in which we would head to the hospital on the evening of the 6th to get settled). Needless to say, she wasn't quite right with her prediction so at 3pm on Monday, September 6th (which happened to be Labor Day, haha) we got everything together and nervously headed over to Northside Hospital. We "checked in" and got settled in our room and then they hooked me up to monitors and stuff and explained the process of starting the induction the next morning. As the short version of the story goes, they started my induction at 8 am on September 7 and twelve and a half hours later at 8:30pm that evening our little girl finally made her appearance into the world!! (For the long version of the story just contact me....it was definitely a memorable day that I won't soon forget...no matter how many people say "oh you'll forget all about that part of it"!)
By Friday, September 10th we were cleared to go home with our new little sweetheart. I think Michael and I were both pretty nervous but I don't think we really needed to be. It sure has been an adjustment and we are getting used to not getting our beauty sleep (haha) but I don't think I have ever been happier. So strange that a little tiny person (who at this point only eats, sleeps, and poops) can totally complete a family and bring more love to two people than they ever thought there could be. I don't want to speed up time, I am so enjoying every moment with our little girl, but I can't wait to see her little personality develop and how she grows. I know that she already fits in perfectly in our family and I am so happy that Sophia Rose is finally here!!!
