Well, we’re 2 weeks deep into parenthood and man oh man has it been an interesting ride thus far. Let’s start from the beginning shall we?

Thursday night (the 12th) I started having some pretty light contractions that were about 10 minutes apart. I woke Brett up around 530am and we started timing those bad boys…they were about 4-6 minutes apart so we decided to check in with the hospital around 9am.

Disappointingly enough they were just Braxton hicks contractions and I was still only 2cm dilated and like no effacement at all. I was so embarrassed that I thought it was the real thing…and so bummed that we got sent home.

We decided to drown our sorrows in a giant breakfast at Denny’s and then headed home for a nap. Then at 230pm my water broke…then came the “real” contractions…and…oh my god they came with vengeance! We made it back to the hospital at 4pm and I was having back to back contractions and was at 4cm and they admitted me.

I received the gift from Jesus that is the epidural and continued to crank out contractions. By 830 I was ready to push. I pushed for a half hour and she was here!

It was such a whirl wind. And still is. I can’t believe we have a baby. I can’t believe we are parents.

The first 2 weeks have been full of some serious highs and lows. Penny’s days and nights were flip flopped so she would sleep all day long and the cry from 11pm til 6am. There were tears and frustration and then she would snuggle on our shoulders and fall asleep and make us fall head over heals in love with her again.

This journey is crazy and I know we have many highs and lows ahead of us. This is just the beginning.