Amelia Faith Saunders was born on November 6, 2008 at 12:48 p.m. She was 8 lbs. 11 oz. measuring 20 inches long.
She was determined to be born on this date. My contractions started at 12:30 a.m. and continued throughout the night. Needless to say, I didn't get any sleep. There was no rhythm to them until 7:30 a.m. which were 8 to 10 minutes apart. When I called the doctor, she recommended me to go to the doctor when they opened at 8:30 to make sure I was in labor. Jamey was just waking up to go to work and I told him that we needed to go to the doctor. Luckily, Bryant was home and he stayed with Camille while she slept. Jamey called work and I tried calling my parents to let them know what was going on. We were just about to get to the doctor's office when my contractions became 5 minutes apart. I made the decision to go ahead to the hospital since it was 30 minutes away on a good day and knew that we'd be in Thursday a.m. traffic. When I couldn't get any answer on either of my parents' phones, I called my uncle to see if he could get in touch with them. Thank God he was and I informed my parents. Jamey also called his. Because the traffic was so bad, we didn't get to the hospital until just before 10 a.m. The doctor said I was dilated 4 cm. She said that if I stayed on course, that I would deliver in 6 hours or around 4 p.m. So, Jamey felt comfortable leaving me and going home to bring Camille back. Not realizing that Bryant had fallen back asleep and not done the things he requested, Jamey had to do them and go to the bank to pay for parking at the hospital. I had the epidural at 11 a.m. and my water also broke then. At 12:22, they said I was fully dilated and to call my husband to see where he was. I asked Amelia to wait until her daddy could get there to be born. Luckily, he had just got off the exit for the hospital. The nurse told me not to push until my husband got there. As soon as he came in the room, she said I could push. Amelia was born shortly after that.
Because of the events of the morning, I had forgotten to put the camera card back into the camera. I had taken it out to download the pictures from Halloween. Luckily, we did pack the video camera and Jamey videoed Amelia after the birth. Thank God for cell phone cameras. Because, my parents had forgotten their camera and Jamey's parents' camera wasn't working.
I did find another camera card in my luggage the next day.
Amelia had many visitors:
Camille and Amelia
Memom, Pappy, Camille and Amelia
Bryant, Amelia and her new bear
Poppa, Nana and Amelia
Aunt Elisabeth, Camille and Amelia
...from her Pappy.
After dealing with low blood sugar, high jaundice levels and blood culture levels from group B strep, Amelia was finally released on Saturday afternoon to come home during the Georgia vs. Kentucky football game. We are happy to be a new family of four!
The Saunders family....Jamey, Leila, Camille (with her baby) and Amelia going home!
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