Birth Notes

We took a trip to the Grove Park Inn in Asheville the week before due date.  I was nervous that Lauren would go into labor while we were there, and spent time thinking about what we would do (drive back or go to the hospital in Asheville).  Lauren was adamant that we'd drive back and told me that if she were to go into labor it would be hours before anything really happened.  Not much comfort.). Things went smoothly though, and we enjoyed the warm pool, brunch, and Lauren had a spa treatment.

When we got back home, Lauren had an OB appointment and when they listened they heard something funny in the baby's heartbeat, so they wanted to do an ultrasound to take a closer look.  During the ultrasound it was discovered that the baby was breech!  They told us that we should go to the hospital pretty much right then and have a scheduled c-section.  We made an appointment for a couple days later, but first they tried a procedure called a version, in which they try to turn the baby by pushing it around in the womb.  This was so scary (to me) but Lauren handled it like it wasn't a problem.  They monitored the baby's heartrate and pushed Laurens stomach pretty much completely around, pushing on the baby's head and knees.  They tried three times but no luck.  They wheeled Lauren to the delivery room, and called me in about 10-15 minutes later.

I sat next to Lauren's head with a little divider between our heads and Lauren's belly.  They asked if I wanted to look over the divider, and when I did they were just pulling Corinne out!  The nurse said "did you see the size of those feet?"!  They took Corinne to a little side station and cleaned her up and checked her out.  She was on that little side station for about 5 minutes and Lauren couldn't see and was a little upset and clearly wanted to hold her baby!  I told Lauren she was beautiful and Lauren said that I'd say that no matter what!  They took the baby and set her on Lauren's chest.  Corinne raised her head up to look at Lauren immediately.  They wheeled Lauren to a side room and then eventually a normal room where we stayed two nights. Visitors were Grandma and Papa Briggs, Ida Montgomery and David, Jake, Gran Robinson, and Taylor.

We came home on Easter Sunday.  That first night none of us got any sleep, Corinne was constantly crying, finally we thought she must be gassy so at about 4:40 in the morning I went to Walmart to get some baby gas medicine and after that everything was fine!  Visitors at home were Haley, Devan (with Kendall and Abi), Gran Robinson, Grandma and Papa Briggs, Great Grandma Briggs, Aunt Caryn and Caleigh.  We visited Great Pa Briggs a little later.