She is here!

This is pretty late.....Annie Rose is here! She came three and a half weeks early, very unexpected and surprising. Her birthday is April 10th! We wasn't due until May 5th!She is so cute and tiny. We love her a ton. She has long fingers and toes. And has ski's for feet! She coo's alot when she is dreaming and is such a little pig. I am happy for that we need to fatten her up a little bit, I feel like she is going to break everytime we pick her up. She was 6lbs 15 oz when born and 19 1/2 inches long! So for being preemie she was pretty big. She was born at 7:23 am. My water broke at 8:30 pm and we went into the hospital at 10:30 after I cleaned the house and showered because I didn't want to show up to the hospital and have them tell me I pee'd me pants and to go home. That is what I was most nervous for, not the fact that I was going to have a baby pass through me! We got to the hospital and they admitted me and immediatly put me on the drip. I was progressing well and then got the epidural when it started to get really intense. An hour after the epidural it was time to push. I pushed for two and a half hours and finally had to get a little help. The Doctor used the suction on her poor head because she was face up and I guess that is harder to get her out. So when she came she had a big cone. It was so sad! I got to hold her for about 5 seconds then they rushed her out. She had breathing problems. Because she was so early her lungs were not fully developed. They said to expect the worse that she would be going to Tucson so that she could get more experienced care. They said she would be going if she was not completely off oxygen by 7 a.m. Well we got to hold her for the first time at around 10 p.m. the day she was born. She was still connected to oxygen but it was the tubes now so we could hold her. At 4 the next morning they brought her to me and she had completely been weened off of oxygen. Talk about cutting it close! 3 more hours and we would have been headed to Tucson. She is doing great and it such a little sweetheart, we love her!