Ashley Mae Jacobsen

Ashley Mae Jacobsen was born Thursday May 10th, 2012 @ 4:40pm. She weighed 8lbs. 6oz and was 20.5inches long. We got to the hospital around 7:30am and I was hooked up to pitocin at 9:30am. After several hours of hard labor I was at 7cm and they  wanted to break my water to help Ashley come down more and speed things up, since I knew I wanted an epidural we decided we should do that first because Dr. was afraid if she broke my water I would go too fast and I wouldn't get an epidural! (Yikes!) The contractions I was having while getting the epidural were almost unbearable! The worst pain I have ever felt in my life! Right after the epidural was in (still took about 20 min to start working) they checked me and I was at an 8 and was starting to go into "transition!" So they broke my water and.....nothing really happened! Ashley came down a little bit, but must have just wanted to stay in there becuase I stayed at 8cm for several more hours. Finally around 4:30pm we were ready to start pushing! After 7hours of labor and two pushes (2 contractions worth that is, so I guess 4 pushes....however you wanna count it) Ashley was born!