THE WOODARD'S: KALLIE BREANNE has arrived!!!!!

Well as many of you already know, our sweet little princess has arrived. I know that this is coming almost an entire month late, but my time has been preoccupied with little miss Kallie Breanne and I haven't had the chance to make a new post. So for those of you who don't know all of the details here they are...along with some photos.

I went into work on 10/3/08 and was having consistent contractions all day long every 30-40 minutes, but didn't think much of it because I had just had my doctor's appointment the day before and was only dilated 3-4 centimeters and he thought that I was going to go past my due date, which was 10/7/08. Well little did we know that little miss had different plans for us.

On Saturday (10/4/08), I along with my coworker took two of the youth from the group home to my little sister Isabel's school fall carnival. Ryan was going to meet us there along with my mom and little sisters. Everything was going normal, until Ryan and my family arrived. As soon as they arrived I walked over to talk to them and as soon as we started to talk my water broke. Which might I tell you that no one ever lets you know that this gush of fluids doesn't just come once, it continues to come out every couple of minutes.

Anyways, so Ryan and I proceed on to the Outer Banks Hospital, since we where right down the road and my doctor wanted us to get there as soon as we could. We got to the hospital around 2pm and got checked in, changed and placed into our room. Once in our room the nurses decided that they would start to administer the Pitocin (however you spell it) to help move the contractions along, since I wasn't really contracting at this time...just continuing to leak fluids every few minutes. (I would like to say something else that they definitely DO NOT share with you before administering the Pitocin...this horrible little drug makes you go from having minimal to no contractions to full on painful contractions in no time at all) After dealing with the pain for a little while, the doctor finally said that I could have the epidural whenever I wanted, which I quickly responded that I wanted it ASAP, he stated well the doctor will be in in a couple of minutes to give me the pain medicine...he then states...well we have to page him first because he lives in Manteo. I was like are you F-ing kidding me, to which my doctor seemed to giggle at and said yes.

The doctor finally gave me the pain meds and after that I felt amazing. They gave me just enough, so that it would start to wear off by the time that I was 8cm dilated. Little did they know that I was going to progress so quickly. At 7pm my doctor came in and checked on my progress and at this time I was 7cm dilated and he thought that I would have her around midnight. Well the nurse came in 30 minutes later and checked me again and she seemed a bit shocked and was like...um I need to go and get the doctor because I think that you are fully dilated and can start to push. Well I was fully dilated and started the pushing process, which was extremely difficult because I was still under the epidural due to me progressing so fast. The nurse was telling me to push and I was like I thought that I was and she was like...no you're not.

Anyways...our little princess was born @ 8:49pm. I was in the hospital for a total of 6 1/2 hours before she finally arrived.
Her stats where the following:

Kallie Breanne Woodard
Born: 10/4/08 (she's a 10/4 baby...which Ryan finds completely hysterical)
Time: 8:49pm
Weight: 7lbs 8.4ozs
Length: 20.5"