Anja was born at 2.44 on Wednesday morning after a long and sometimes frustrating labor! She's a big girl :)
We went to the hospital on Monday night, and they started me on hormones to help get my body ready for inducing labor. I didn't really sleep at all Monday night... Tuesday morning at about 8:30 they broke my water and started me on pitocin to induce contractions. They turned the pitocin up, and it was very intense. I did eventually ask for, and get, and epidural, which made me pretty numb from the waist down, and I actually managed to get a little sleep. John and Annette, my doula, were there the whole time helping me out and generally being wonderful :)
At about 11 pm, they decided I could start pushing as soon as the dr. was out of surgery....
We stayed at the hospital until Friday at noontime, and are now all home and resting, learning, and getting to know each other...