Posts From The Potters...: Welcome Baby Sister!

Isabelle Ann Potter finally made her arrival on February 24th, 2016. After being scared she was going to be a Valentine's baby, I had shifted my worries to thinking she might not get here until Leap Day! However, on the morning of the 24th I had a dr's appt and when she checked she said I was already 4cm and had low fluid so it was time to induce! I came home to grab some clothes and meet Todd and we headed to the hospital around 1:00.

I snapped one last pregnancy pic on the way out the door since it may very well be the last time I look like that!!

When we got to the hospital, they said they had a lot of inductions that were still going from that am and no one had delivered yet. They hooked me up to an IV and the monitors and basically told us just to hang out for awhile. We could see on the monitors that I was already having contractions. They finally came in around 3 and apologized it was taking so long and asked if I wanted to eat so Todd ran out to grab us some Chick-Fil-A! Finally, around 4:30 they came in and started the Pitocin. After that I was fine until around 6 or 630 and I started to have a lot of pain from the contractions. At that point I requested my epidural and they told me that the anesthesiologist was in a C-section and someone had called right before me so it would probably take him about 30 minutes. Needless to say this was not welcome news and it was a pretty horrible 30 minutes. However, he finally showed up and after that everything was good until around 8 when the nurse came in and wanted to move me around because the baby's heart rate was doing something funny. When that didn't work she decided to check me and realized we were ready to go! They called the doc and as soon as she got there, Izzy was born about 10 minutes later. When the doctor came in she asked Todd if he wanted to help deliver the baby!!! I was not really overly enthused about the idea but he really wanted to do it so they suited him up in scrubs and everything and he actually pulled her out. He says it was really cool and I'm going to take his word for it ;) He is very bummed that we did not get a picture of him doing this but I guess the nurse who was supposed to take the pictures got busy.

She's here!

7lbs 11oz. Her brother was 7 12 so very close!

Her feet weren't quite as scaly as his ;)

Once she was born they did some tests and realized she was Coombs positive (our blood types were incompatible) and her bilirubin levels were too high so they put her under these lights.

At first she just had to lay on a blanket and wear these goggles but we could still hold her but then her levels kept getting higher so she needed overhead lights as well. From that point on we could only take her out for 30 minutes every 3 hours to eat. They also had me supplement her with 10cc's of formula at every feeding. The whole thing was a little stressful but she ended up getting a clean bill of health and we didn't have to stay any extra days in the hospital so that was good.

First bath

Our poor little "bili baby" thats what they call them in the hospital.

When they finally came in (around 430pm) and told us we could go home I got her dressed in her little sister outfit I made and off we went. (funny story, I actually had another little sister outfit in my bag with another name on it, that was going to be her name until Todd found out his great grandmother's name 2 weeks before she was born and decided he liked that better!) We were still undecided on the way to the hospital but decided to go with a family name in the end. We plan on calling her Izzy but if she decides she doesn't like that someday she has options!