ONE YEAR AGO TODAY...

10 minutes old A few hours old and FINALLY meeting mom! Our first family picture Going home outfit Look how much she has grown this year!

One year ago today our lives changed. They changed in a manner that cannot be described. Here is the story of Addison's' birth. it is a LONG one! My due date was 12/27. The ENTIRE month of December I really showed no progress towards dilating. I had a dr appt on 12/28 with my least fave doc in the practice. He said "You have made no progress towards dilating. I am afraid that you are gonna be in the same point next week with an aged placenta. Let's talk induction". I was all over that since I was DONE being preggo. The doc did not think Addison was too large, maybe on the larger size of normal since Jeremy was over 10 pounds and I was 4 weeks early and weighed 8 lbs, 9 oz. I was scheduled for induction on 12/29.Arrive at the hospital at 7 am. get set up, start pitocin at 8am. A bit later the doc decides she wants to put a catheter in my cervix to help me dilate. I agree. Oh. My. God! Ouch! I thought I would die. The part that hangs out had to be taped to my leg for tension and then repositioned every hour. That was miserable. After 2 hours, I was pulling on the damn thing to try and help it along! It finally came out around lunchtime.I basically spent all afternoon with contractions that were not too bad. They were going slow on the pitocin bc I told them my sister responded to it so well they had to turn it off.At 8:00 pm I was only to a 4 cm after 12 hours of pitocin. The doctor decided to break my water. That was gross! I asked for the epi at this point since that is when I heard contractions got really bad. Loved the epi, but who didn't!Slept for a while and then the doc came to check me. I was at 5 cm. He told me I had an hour to make some progress or c/s. I had a real conversation with my cervix and was WILLING it to open. An hour later, 5.5 cm. I was given another hour and made it to a 6 cm. At this point he gave 30 minutes for more progress. No progress. C/S it was. I was upset. Whenever he would say c/s, I would shake. At 2:15 am on 12/30/06 Addison Caroline Tabery was born at 9 pounds 8 ounces and 21 inches long. She had a full head of hair and was beautiful!I asked the doctor if I could have had her if I had gone into labor on my own. He said nope. She had turned slightly towards my hip and God apparently did not build me for birthing 9 1/2 pound babes! It took me forever to be able to move my legs in recovery- like 2 hours! I finally got to go see my baby. She nursed like a champ!